Virpi Talvitie (born 1961, in Ilmajoki)[1] is a Finnish illustrator and graphic artist.
[2] Talvitie has illustrated magazines and children's books.
In 2006, she collaborated with Timo Parvela on the book Keinulauta (Seesaw), which won the Junior Finlandia Prize, a prestigious literary prize in Finland.
[3] She won the WSOY Literature Foundation award in 2010,[4] and the Mikkeli Illustration Triennial Prize in 2011.
[5] Talvitie has also been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 2006, 2008 and 2012.