Conor Busuttil

Conor Busuttil is the author and illustrator of Billy Conker’s Nature-Spotting Adventure, which was nominated for The Wainwright Prize. He also illustrated Tír na nÓg (words by Erika McGann), The Children of ir (words by Laura Ruth Maher), which was nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration, and Ulster Fairytales and Legends (words by Peter and Nicola Heaney).

Conor grew up in a small country village on the Strangford Lough coast in County Down, the perfect place for a young creative’s imagination and love of myths and magic to flourish.