Marjorie Van Heerden Email & Phone Number

Marjorie van HeerdenUpdate - go to http://marjorie-cv.blogspot.com/2013/01/marjorie-van-heerdens-2012.htmlMarjorie grew up on a farm in the Hex River Valley in South Africa. From an early age she loved drawing animals and fairies and people and dinosaurs and children and dragons and monsters and today they appear in all shapes and sizes in the more than 120 books that feature her work. Since the publication of her first children’s picture book in 1983 Marjorie van Heerden has been published as illustrator or illustrator/author in 33 languages in Africa, England, Europe, the East, Canada and the USA. She and her husband lived and worked in Stellenbosch near Cape Town for 20 years, in Johannesburg for another ten, travelled for eighteen months on honeymoon in a camper van around Europe, lived for a year on the banks of Lake Michigan in the USA and for four years in a forest on a mountain north of Athens in Greece. From each of these places Marjorie drew inspiration for her menagerie of animals, fairies, dragons, monsters and people.Since 2003 the Van Heerdens live next to the sea in Gordon’s Bay, once again near Cape Town. Their two children are grown up and out of the house. Marjorie’s studio is in the loft and she sits looking at the magnificent view over False Bay while she writes and illustrates her stories.In 2008 Marjorie with the writer, Wendy Hartmann, won the M.E.R Award for best illustrated children’s book, for Nina and Little Duck published by Human & Rousseau (SA) in 2007 (also available in Afrikaans as Nina en Eendjie)She is the Co- RA for SCBWI (SA)Sketch Blog http://marjorie-van-heerden.blogspot.com/Links to my Trade books; Educational Books; Curriculum Vitae; Articles (children’s books); Reading Series, on my Sketch BlogBooks published in China: http://booksfromtheeast.blogspot.com/

Gordon'S Bay, Cape Town, South Africa

Writer and illustrator of children's books - Marjorie van Heerden has written and/or illustrated more than 120 children’s books and has been published in 34 languages in Asia, Africa, Europe, Canada and the USA. In 2008 and again in 2012 Marjorie won the M.E.R Award for best South African illustrated children’s book. www.grafikon.co.za/Marjorie van Heerden received RA emerita status from SCBWI - On the 1st of December 2018 Marjorie van Heerden resigned as Co-RA of the South African chapter of the SCBWI. She received Regional Advisor Emerita status from SCBWI after 18 years of enthusiastic and dedicated Leadership

Lives In A Coastal Village Near Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

2022 South African Children's LaureateSCBWI Regional Advisor EmeritaMarjorie has written and/or illustrated more than 130 children’s books and has been published in 35 languages in Africa, England, Europe, the USA, China and Malaysia.