Career
After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Sion and graduating from the Ecole Supèrieure d"Arts Visuels in Geneve, Emmanuelle Houdart moved to Paris. Since 1996 she has been working as a painter and illustrator, and recently also as a costume and textile designer. Her illustrations were turned into fabrics and costumes for the "Barnhominum" exhibition at the Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse, Montreuil, 2011.
She contributes to many French magazines and newspapers such as Libération, Le Monde, Sciences et Vie Junior, Ça m"intéresse… She has written and/or illustrated more than twenty books, published all around the world (France, Italy, Mexico, Germany…).
Grants and 2003: Prix Octogone, category Prix Graphique (CIELJ), for Les Choses que je sais.