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Korky Paul was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951 into a family of seven children. He enjoyed a wild and privileged childhood in the African Bushveldt.

At an early age he was reading comic books and scribbling cartoons. He scribbled his way through Durban School of Art and for four years scribbled at an advertising agency in Cape Town.

In 1976, he ‘fled for Europe’ and found himself in Greece, where he was commissioned to illustrate a series of educational books teaching Greek children to speak English. He then spent some time working in an advertising agency in London and Los Angeles, and studied film animation at CAL-ARTS, California.

In 1986 he was commissioned to illustrate Winnie the Witch. It won the Children’s Book Award in 1987 and has since been published in over 10 languages. Korky has gone on to illustrate a raft of successful children’s books, including more in the ‘Winnie the Witch’ series, and quickly became a well-known and popular figure in the children’s book world.

Three of Korky’s picture books have been adapted for CD-ROM; Dragon Poems, Winnie the Witch and The Fish Who Could Wish, which won the coveted European Multi-Media Award (EMMA) in 1995. He is married to the artist Susan Moxley and they live with their children in Oxford, England.