Meet the author

Levi Pinfold.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1985

Levi Pinfold: Kate Greenaway-winning British picture-book maker behind Black Dog — painterly, atmospheric, technically virtuosic books that bridge picture-book and gallery-art sensibilities.

Levi Pinfold is a British author-illustrator born in 1985, best known for the picture book Black Dog (2011), which won the Kate Greenaway Medal, a quietly weighty, painterly story about a giant black dog that menaces a family until the youngest child confronts it. Pinfold's style is deeply atmospheric, technically virtuosic, rooted in oil-painted realism rather than contemporary cartoon, closer to Shaun Tan or Brian Selznick than to most current picture-book illustration. He also illustrated The Song from Somewhere Else (with A.F. Harrold), Wisp (with Zana Fraillon), and a range of cover illustrations. A serious gift-shelf picture-book maker for readers who value art-school-quality illustration.