The illustrator is celebrating her 90th birthday. She has illustrated more than 100 picture books and children's books, and a number of magazines for children (Ciciban, Cicido and Pil).
In her interview for daily newspaper Delo she explained that she preferred rich, picturesque illustrations with plenty of details, such as her illustrations for Tri botre lisičice (The Three Godmothers Foxes) and Zelišča male čarovnice (The Herbs of the Little Witch). The illlustrations for Muca copatarica (Cat the slipper cobbler), the most famous and the most popular fairy tale written by Ela Peroci are also very famous; the book with illustrations by Ančka Gošnik Godec was published for the first time in 1957.
Ančka Gošnik Godec was born in 1927 in Celje. She graduated from the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana, and completed the postgraduate course in painting in the class of Božidar Jakac. She studied in Paris as well and thus expanded her skills. She has received a number of acknowledgments for her work.
A. K., MMC; translated by G. K.