Markus Osterwalder

Markus Osterwalder was born near Zurich in 1947. After training as a typesetter, he worked as a graphic designer, including at a schoolbook publisher in Paris, and as a layout artist for ZEITmagazin. He subsequently spent many years as artistic director of the Paris-based children’s publisher L’école des loisirs. He is known as the creator of the picture-book character Bobo Siebenschläfer. The first Bobo Siebenschläfer picture book was developed in close collaboration with his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. Osterwalder also edited the reference work Dictionnaire des Illustrateurs 1800–1914.