Jan Pieńkowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jan Pieńkowski

British illustrator and book designer

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1936

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: writer, illustrator, children's writer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Jan Michal Pienkowski (born 8 August 1936) is a Polish-British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books.
He has also designed for the theatre.
For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was UK nominee in 1982 and again in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books.WorldCat reports that Pienkowski's work most widely held in participating libraries is Christmas, the King James Version (1984; US ISBN 0394869230), a 24-page picture book that "[u]ses the words of the Gospels of Luke and Matthew to present the story of the birth of Jesus."