Ana Juan

Ana Juan (born 1961 in Valencia) is a Spanish artist, illustrator and painter. After graduating in fine arts from the Universidad Politécnica in Valencia in 1982, she moved to Madrid during the height of the movida madrileña, where she collaborated with magazines such as La Luna and Madriz. In 1991 she temporarily moved to Paris and exhibited in Geneva and New York. In 1994 she received a fellowship from the Japanese publisher Kodansha and spent three months in Japan. Wikipediaaleph

Back in Madrid, in 1995 she began contributing to The New Yorker, for which she has designed more than 20 covers. In 2001 she published the books Amantes and Snowhite, and from 2002 she devoted herself mainly to illustrating children’s books. In 2010 the Spanish Ministry of Culture awarded her the National Illustration Prize. More recently, UDIT, the University of Design, Innovation and Technology, named her Honorary Professor in April 2025.