Wafa\' Tarnowska is an award-winning writer, translator and storyteller.
She has also illustrated The Girl with a Brave Heart for Barefoot Books..
Her vibrant and evocative style is influenced by painters such as Bonnard, Hockney and Matisse.
In 2012 she was awarded The Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustration of a Children\'s Book.
She works as an illustrator and graphic editor for the children\'s art magazine Einayim.
Vali Mintzi was born in Romania and studied at the prestigious Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
Wafa\' sees herself as a cultural bridge between East and West, and has also written the award-winning The Arabian Nights for Barefoot Books.
She currently lives between the UK and Poland, writing, translating books and documentaries and offering storytelling sessions in English and Arabic.
She was born in Lebanon and has worked and lived in several countries from India, to Australia, to the UAE as well as Cyprus and Lebanon.
Wafa\' Tarnowska is an award-winning writer, translator and storyteller
