Stéphane Jorisch is a Canadian artist and illustrator.
[1] He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration, winning in 1993 for Le Monde selon Jean de ...[2] and in 1999 for Charlotte et l'île du destin,[3] and a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration, in 2004 for Jabberwocky[4] and in 2008 for The Owl and the Pussycat.
[5] In 2008 he was also cowinner with Gilles Vigneault of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in the French division, for Un cadeau pour Sophie.
[6] His daughter Édith Jorisch is a filmmaker.
[7] Her documentary film The Heir (L'héritier), about her grandfather's quest to reclaim art lost by the family to the Nazis during World War II, won a Prix Gémeaux in 2017[8] and the Michael Moskovitz Award for a Film in 2018.