Stéphane Jorisch

Stéphane Jorisch is a Canadian artist and illustrator.^[1] He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration, winning in 1993 for Le Monde selon Jean de ...^[2] and in 1999 for Charlotte et l'île du destin,^[3] and a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration, in 2004 for Jabberwocky^[4] and in 2008 for The Owl and the Pussycat.^[5]

In 2008 he was also cowinner with Gilles Vigneault of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in the French division, for Un cadeau pour Sophie.^[6]

His daughter Édith Jorisch is a filmmaker.^[7] Her documentary film The Heir (L'héritier), about her grandfather's quest to reclaim art lost by the family to the Nazis during World War II, won a Prix Gémeaux in 2017^[8] and the Michael Moskovitz Award for a Film in 2018.^[9]