Michael Roher

Michael Roher was born in Lower Austria in 1980 and completed training as a social pedagogue in Vienna. He subsequently worked in play-based and circus education with children and young people. Since 2010, he has published children’s books as an author and illustrator. His works include “Sorriso,” “Prinzessin Hannibal,” and “Tintenblaue Kreise.” Roher has received several awards, including the Dixi Children’s Literature Prize, the Romulus Candea Prize, the City of Vienna Illustration Prize, and the Austrian Children’s and Young People’s Book Prize. In 2021, he became the first recipient of the Christine Nöstlinger Prize.