PIRET RAUD was born in 1971 in Tallinn,
Estonia. She has studied printmaking at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Since
graduating in 1995 she has been living and working in Tallinn as a graphic
artist, book illustrator and author. She has illustrated over 40 books, written
19 books for children and 2 novels and a short story collection for adults. Her books have been translated
into French, English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Polish,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Croatian, Albanian, Hungarian and Korean.
Her main Publishers are Éditions du Rouergue (France), Thames & Hudson (United
Kingdom), Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers (Japan) and Tänapäev (Estonia).