Yolanda Mosquera

Yolanda Mosquera lives and works in the north of Spain near the countryside.

She graduated from the University of the Basque Country college of Fine Arts and majored in graphic design, and has a postgraduate degree in illustration for childen's books and publications EINA, University Center of Design and Art of Barcelona (2008). She has worked as a graphic designer and illustrator, taught art and illustration and hosted creative workshops in Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Since 2011, she has illustrated numerous books from Brazil, Portugal, Uruguay and Italy, including 'The Silence of Water' by Nobel prize-winning author José Saramago, translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa (Seven Stories Press, 2023), the Spanish translation of Guy de Maupassant's classic 'Little Louise Roque', and 'Llévame' by Mercedes Calvo. Her work has been exhibited in Portugal, Korea, China, Italy, USA, Mexico, and most recently at the Bratislava Biennale of Illustration.

She obtained an honorable mention in the Sharjah Exhibition for Children's Books Illustrations Third Edition (UAE, 2014) and was awarded the Euskadi Prize for Literary Illustration (2018), one of the Basque Country's most prestigious accolades.