Raphaël Kolly was born in 1994 and grew up in a village at the foot of the Swiss alps. He studied at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art, graduating with a bachelor's degree in illustration fiction. Since then, he has worked as a freelance illustrator and now lives in Bern. His first picture book »Ein Licht im Wald« (»A Light in the Forest«) was published in German back in 2021. It has been translated into French, Danish, Persian and Chinese. Since then Kolly has published five more picture books.