Marit Törnqvist is a Swedish-Dutch illustrator and author. She is the two-time recipient of the Dutch Zilveren Griffel award and was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She is best known for her illustrations of Astrid Lindgren's books. Törnqvist was born in 1964, in Sweden, to the author-illustrator Rita Törnqvist-Verschuur and Egil Törnqvist, a professor and academic literary critic. At the age of five, she moved to the Netherlands with her family, where she still lives today. From 1982 to 1987 Törnqvist went to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1989, she illustrated her first book The Christmas Carp , a collaboration with her mother. At the same time Törnqvist applied in Sweden as an illustrator for Astrid Lindgren's work. She went on to work closely with Lindgren, providing illustrations for several of her books. In 1995, Törnqvist wrote and illustrated the book A Little Love Story , which was awarded the Dutch literary prize the Zilveren Griffel in 1996. She won the Zilveren Griffel again in 2018, for Het gelukkige eiland , which also won the Boekenpauw. In 2016, she was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award almost every year since 2010. Törnqvist is married and has two daughters.