Armin Greder
, b. 1942
Armin Greder was born in 1942 in Biel, Switzerland. Books and drawing played an important role from his early childhood. His first ten years were dominated by his mother’s fear of being evicted for excess noise by the landlady who lived in the apartment below them. The silent activity of reading and drawing were fuelled by the travel books that his mother brought home from the public library, opening up horizons beyond Switzerland for the young Armin Greder.
Discouraged from a career that involved drawing, Greder was apprenticed as an architectural draftsman after finishing school. He made a lot of models whilst working in an architect’s office in Switzerland. In 1970 he emigrated to Australia to take up a job in an advertising agency. Subsequently he taught drawing, design and illustration at tertiary institutions in Queensland, which gave him another creative outlet whilst pursuing his career as a children’s book illustrator.
As an internationally renowned illustrator, Greder has won many awards for his picture books, including the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year 2002 for An Ordinary Day and in 2004 was nominated for the Hans Christian Anderson Award for his body of work. Greder currently resides in Lima, Peru.
Bio prepared by Margaret Bromley, University of New England, mbromle5@une.edu.au and brom_ken@bigpond.net.au
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