Antonia Barber

As an artist

Antonia Barber is an award-winning author who has written books for both adults and children, including Catkin, illustrated by P. J. Lynch (shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal), The Ghosts (runner-up for the Carnegie Medal), and The Mousehole Cat, which was Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal, shortlisted for the Smarties’ Prize and chosen as the British Book Awards Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year in 1991. Antonia spends time in Kent and a harbourside cottage in Mousehole, Cornwall.