Neil Packer

Neil Packer is an award-winning English illustrator and author, known in Italy for Unico nel suo genere , winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award, the Andersen Prize for Best Popular Science Book, and the Cento Children's Literature Prize for Best Visual Narration. For Bloomsbury, he illustrated Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads (Mondadori 2021) and, in collaboration with Jim Kay, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Salani 2022). For The Folio Society, he has illustrated several precious limited edition volumes, from Shakespeare's complete plays to the Divine Comedy , as well as The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum . In 2024, The Parable of the Independent Bakery, was published his first fictional production as an author and illustrator, created for Camelozampa. A new chapter in the Arvo story, Everywhere, Everywhere, was released in October 2026.