Colors! / Colores!

JORGE LUJÁN is an author, poet and musician. His body of work, translated into eighteen languages, includes Stephen and the Beetle, illustrated by Chiara Carrer; Doggy Slippers and Numeralia, illustrated by Isol; Colors! ¡Colores!, illustrated by Piet Grobler; and Moví la mano / I Moved My Hand, illustrated by Mandana Sadat. He has won the Premio de Poesía para Niños de ALIJA, and has been nominated for the 2024 Anderson Prize and nominated eight times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. He lives in Mexico. PIET GROBLER is a world-renowned South African illustrator of children’s books. He has illustrated ninety five books, which have been published in many languages, and he has won a number of awards, including two silver medals at the Noma Concours (Japan), the Octogone de Chêne (France) and a Golden Apple at the Biennial of Illustration in Bratislava. He lives in Portugal and is the visiting Professor in Illustration at the University of Worcester, in the United Kingdom. JOHN OLIVER SIMON (1942-2018) was a poet and translator from Berkeley, California. Among other accolades, he was awarded the NEA Translation Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival. REBECCA PARFITT is a translator who lives in DeKalb, Illinois.