Matt Ottley

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Matt Ottley (born 1962) is an Australian author, illustrator, composer and visual artist. He is known for children's and young adult literature and for multimodal projects that combine narrative, illustration and original music. By 2022, he had written or illustrated approximately 40 books. Ottley's Requiem for a Beast received the 2008 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Book. He illustrated Meg McKinlay's How to Make a Bird, winner of the 2021 CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award and a joint winner in the children's literature category at the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. His The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness received the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Graphic Novel/Illustrated Work and the 2023 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional.

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