Jelka Godec Schmidt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jelka Godec Schmidt

Illustrator and children's story writer

Date of Birth: 01-May-1958

Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia

Profession: writer, illustrator, children's writer

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jelka Godec Schmidt (born 1 May 1958) is a Slovene illustrator and writer of children's books.Godec was born in Ljubljana in 1958.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and has since worked as a free-lance artist.
She has illustrated over 40 books and her illustrations also appear in magazines for children.
Her mother Ancka Gošnik Godec is also an illustrator, as was her husband Matjaž Schmidt. She won the Levstik Award in 1997 for her illustrations of Bisernica: slovenske kratke pripovedi za otroke (Bisernica: Traditional Short Stories for Children).