Meet the author

Merve Atilgan.

Writer & illustrator · Turkey

Merve Atilgan: Turkish picture-book maker behind The Forest of Dreams — loose, painterly, dreamlike picture books for ages 3–7.

Merve Atilgan is a Turkish author-illustrator best known for the picture book The Forest of Dreams, a gentle, dreamlike picture book about imagination and the night woods. Atilgan's style is loose, painterly and atmospheric, in the contemporary literary-picture-book register. A reliable picture-book maker for ages 3–7 in the gentle-magical register.