illustrator
Burcu Yilmaz
Burcu Yılmaz is an Istanbul-born illustrator and author whose award-winning children’s books have been exhibited internationally.
Biography
Burcu Yılmaz was born in 1986 in Istanbul. She studied Communication Design, Literature, Italian Language and Literature.
Her works took part in the Ege University Painters of Children’s World and Books Museum, The 50th Bratislava Illustration Biennial, the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair, and exhibitions at home and abroad.
In the 17th Tudem Literature Awards Picture Book Competition, her silent book “When I Leave Home” was deemed second.