Igor Karash

Igor Karash is a multi-award-winning illustrator. His artist profile is part of TASCHEN’s The Illustrator: 100 Best from Around the World. Among other books, he is the illustrator of Victor, a Soldier’s Story (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in June 2027); Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story: The Graphic Novel; and illustrated editions of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, published by the Folio Society in London. For his series of illustrations for Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, Karash was awarded the Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Karash earned his master’s degree in book design and illustration at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts in Ukraine, has taught in the Department of Art, Design and Art History (DADAH) at Webster University, and now lives in St. Louis.