Martina Trchová is a graduate in Art Education. As well as teaching art and leading art workshops, she has produced art of her own since her student years. She has now discovered the magic of illustration for children; her work in this regard includes illustrations for Markéta Pilátová’s Fungus Woman with Parasol / Bába Bedla (2021), which appears in a 2021/22 catalogue of best books for children. Martina is also a singer-songwriter of jazz, chanson, folk and blues music.
For her silent book Gran / Babi Martina Trchová has won one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for books for children and young adults, awarded by the Bologna Book Fair. She received the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2025 (BRAW) in the Comics - Early Reader category - the jury decided to award the book a Special Mention.
