Luis Garay was born in 1965 in Granada, Nicaragua. Costa Rica was Luis's home from 1983 until 1988, when he emigrated to Toronto, Canada, to work on his career
as an artist. Painting has always been his true passion.
Nowadays, as a citizen of both countries, he spends his time between Nicaragua and Canada, doing research for his book projects and working full-time as a children's book illustrator, making use of his favorite painting techniques: aquarela
and acrylic.
Always showing great commitment to
the people of his country and of Latin America in general, he has been the recipient of many prizes, including the
Blue Ribbon Award, presented to him in 1996 by the Bulletin of the Centre for Children's Books for his illustrations of
The Jade and the Iron (Groundwood Books, 1996).
He has been called one of the best young Latin American illustrators working today, and his beautiful images can be seen gracing the pages of The Kite (Tundra Books, 2002); El Popol Vuh: A Sacred Book of the Maya (Groundwood
Books, 1999); Pedrito's Day (Orchard Books,1997); A Handful of Seeds
(Orchard Books, 1996); and The Long Road (Tundra Books, 1997), which was also written by him and tells a moving story of his experiences as a young boy living in Nicaragua.
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