Roger Mello

Roger Mello (born 20 November 1965) is a Brazilian children's book illustrator. He was the first illustrator from Latin America to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award, which he did in 2010.^[1][2][3]

Roger Mello at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2014

Honours and awards

• 2002 Espace-Enfants^[4]
• 2002 Prêmio Jabuti^[5]
• 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award^[6]

Publications

• (with Daniel Hahn) Charcoal Boys (Elsewhere Editions, 2019)
• (with Daniel Hahn) You can't be too careful! (Elsewhere Editions, 2017)
• (with Cao Wenxuan, tr. Chloe Garcia Roberts) Feather (Archipelago Books, 2017)
• Meninos do mangue (Companhia das Letrinhas, 2012)