Mark Janssen (1974) is a Dutch book illustrator and children’s author. He has illustrated hundreds of children’s and picture books, with the first children’s book he helped to visualise being the work of Ulf Stark, another previous guest of HeadRead. Two reasons bring Janssen to the HeadRead Literary Festival. The first is that he has also illustrated all the books of the Sanne Rooseboom’s Ministry of Solutions. The second reason, however, is thanks to none other than Janssen himself: in 2016, he began writing his own books (and, of course, illustrating what he wrote). Success was not far behind: Janssen’s first book, Niets gebeurd (Nothing Happened), received a lot of praise. In the 2020s, Janssen has continued his creative journey with increasing success, including with his 2021 book Dreamer, a heartfelt story of equality and difference, which became one of the best-selling books in the Netherlands in the year of its publication.
Performs at
| Date | Event Name | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, 30 May at 11:30 | Mark Janssen | Estonian Children's Literature Centre |
| Friday, 30 May at 10:00 | Sanne Rooseboom and Mark Janssen | Estonian Children's Literature Centre |
