Ančka Gošnik Godec (1927) is an academically trained painter and illustrator. She belongs to the generation of illustrators who were key to the development and establishment of this artistic discipline in Slovenia. At the very beginning of her creative career, her works were published in the Ciciban, Pionir, and Pionirski list magazines, followed by illustrations for many well-known books. Several volumes of folk tales with her illustrations have left their mark on many generations of Slovenians. Gošnik Godec is a painter with a strong sense of the Slovenian landscape and Slovenian material heritage, and, as a result of this, her illustrations often carry an ethnological value. She has illustrated around 130 books, and many of her images have been collected in the anthology The Golden Bird (2011). She has received numerous awards, including the Levstik Award multiple times, the Levstik Lifetime Achievement Award, the Hinko Smrekar Lifetime Achievement Award, and the IBBY International Accolade.