Diane Obomsawin

Of Abenaki origin, Diane Obomsawin (also known by the pen name Obom) is a Québec-based animation filmmaker, illustrator, and graphic novelist. Since 1992, she has distinguished herself through a prolific body of animated short films, several of which have received awards, including Ici par ici, an autobiographical account of her uprooted childhood. Her picture book Le petit livre pour les géants received the 2021 Children’s Book Award from the Montreal Libraries.