Nadia Budde

Nadia Budde, born in 1967 in East Berlin, initially worked as a shop display designer before earning her Abitur at night school and studying Graphic Design at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. She is a German graphic designer, children's book illustrator, author, translator, and lecturer who lives and works in Berlin. Her works have earned awards including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Oldenburger Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis, Max und Moritz Preis, and the 2025 Uwe Lüders Preis.