Klaas Verplancke

Klaas Verplancke was born in 1964 inZwevegem, Nederland.
He studied advertising graphics and photography at the Hoger Sint-Lucas Instituut in Ghent from 1982 to 1986. He started his professional career in advertising agencies and continued to do his illustrating after office hours. In 1990 he decided to become
a full-time illustrator. Advertising acted as a handy training ground for his new profession, teaching him to analyze issues and to get a story across to the public at large. In the following years, he made countless contributions to magazines and newspapers and illustrated more or less a hundred and fifty books, ranging from cardboard books and picture books for youngsters, to the medieval acid satire of “Reinaart the Fox” and the frank and fearless “Erotic Fables” for adults. He also wrote and illustrated the picture books “Jot, Wortels, Nopjes, Reus” and “Applesauce”. He has been nominated six consecutive times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and has been finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration 2006. His book “Ozewiezewoze” won the Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2001.