Olaf Falafel

Olaf Falafel is a stand-up comedian, author and illustrator who, at the age of ten, photocopied and sold his own comic, ‘Bullseye’ in the school playground. He's the winner of The Funniest Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe as well as the Children’s Book Award, a ‘Lollie’ and the Queen’s Knickers Award. Olaf regularly visits schools to give comic workshops and to teach the children how to draw bum-faced snails! He has an Art Club on YouTube, full of real drawing tips and facts about famous artists and he is the author of the Trixie Pickle Art Avenger series.

Olaf's book BLOBFISH was shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Children's Writing on Nature & Conservation 2023. BLOBFISH won The Society of Authors Queen's Knickers Award in 2023, and the Federation of Children's Book Groups Books for Younger Children Award, also in 2023.