writer  |  illustrator  |  cartoonist  |  performer

Who the Heck 

  is Louie Deck?

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Bio:

Writer/Illustrator Louis Decrevel (pronounced Louie Decra-vel) lives on a small farm in South Australia with his wife and a perfectly normal number of children. He has won twenty regional, national and international awards for his words and pictures in recent years, including a clean sweep in the poetry section of the Fleurieu Writers Competition. His clients include HarperCollins, Quarto, and the Australian Government. He has a Master’s degree in illustration, with a thesis called Word and Picture at Play. He despises generative AI, and he can and will sing songs from Disney's Aladdin when you least expect it (the Robin Williams one, of course).

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Awards:

2026 – Top Pick – KidLitGN (Writing & Illustration)

2026 – Finalist – KidLitGN (Writing & Illustration)

2026 – Winner – Fleurieu Writers Competition (Poetry)

2026 – Runner up – Fleurieu Writers Competition (Poetry)

2026 – Third place – Fleurieu Writers Competition (Poetry)

2026 – Finalist – MG Hub Pitch Party (Writing & Illustration)

2026 – Finalist – PBParty Illustration Showcase (Illustration)

2025 – Match – ASA Picture Book Matchmaker (Writing & Illustration)

2025 – Winner – CYA Competition (Illustration)

2024 – Winner – PB Rising Stars Mentorship (Writing & illustration)

2024 – Highly commended – CYA Competition (Illustration)

2023 – Third place – CYA Competition (Writing)

2022 – Highly commended – CYA Competition (Illustration)

2022 – Winner – Australian Society of Authors Award Mentorship (Illustration)

2021 – Winner – Pencraft SA Competition (Poetry)

2021 – Winner – Faber Writing Academy Scholarship (Writing)

2021 – Runner up – Book Links Mentorship (Writing)

2021 – Runner up – New England Illustration Prize (Illustration)

2021 – Highly commended – New England Illustration Prize (Illustration)

2020 – Longlist – CBCA Maurice Saxby Program (Writing & illustration)

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Selected clients: 

HarperCollins (worldwide) – The Quarto Group (UK) – TeacherGoals Publishing (USA) – The Australian Government – Silicon Chip Magazine (AU/NZ) – Cryptowatch (USA) – Storyfest (Gold Coast) – The City of Onkaparinga – Nova FM – Westfield – Spinworthy Yoyos – StorySnorts (live improv cartooning) – and Macmillan (contributing to Ben Hatke's Eisner-winning Little Robot).

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Education: 

— Illustration Department Mentorship with Giuseppe Castellano (USA).

— PB Rising Stars Mentorship with Kathryn Rammell (USA).

— Australian Society of Authors Award Mentorship with Emma Quay.

— UniSA Master's mentorship with Ben Hatke (USA).

— Master of Visual Art & Design: Illustration, UniSA. Louis Decrevel's Master’s thesis, Word and Picture at Play, is about how text and images interact in picture books.

— Writing for Children, Faber Writing Academy (scholarship), with Martine Murray.

— Writing Picture Books, Australian Writers' Centre, with Zanni Louise.

— Drawing for Comics, CDW Studios, with Tim McBurnie.​

— Bachelor of Arts: Multimedia, UniSA (Golden Key Honour Society)

— Immanuel College (Full Colours)

— Calvary Primary School (good times)

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Publications: 

• Unannounced picture book series (HarperCollins), illustrated by Louis Decrevel, to be published in 2027.

• The Eagle, the Bear, the Mouse, and the Cheese (the poem that won the Fleurieu Writers Competition) written and illustrated by Louis Decrevel, published in the Fleurieu Sun newspaper.

• Silicon Chip magazine, cartoons by Louis Decrevel feature every month. Ongoing since 2022.

• Louis' Incredible Feat, article about Louis Decrevel running the width of Australia—4,000km—written by Michael Simmons for the Fleurieu Sun newspaper. Features an illustration by Louis Decrevel.

• Gram & Gran Save the Summer, written by Stephen Chiger & Daniel Pereira, illustrated by Louis Decrevel (TeacherGoals).

• Fleurieu Footy magazine, various illustrations by Louis Decrevel across multiple issues and covers.

• Whoosh! 250 Ways to Get Motion into Your Drawings, written by Carlos Gomes Cabral, featured spread on Louis Decrevel (Sourcebooks/Search).

• Little Robot, written by Ben Hatke (First Second)—colour assistant.

• On Writing for Children, Louis Decrevel's experience of the Faber Writing Academy Scholarship.

• Monster Blood Tattoo: Factotum, written by D.M. Cornish (Scholastic)—support. 

• Disney Adventures magazine, (The Walt Disney Company) Louis Decrevel's first ever publication at age 11.

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Memberships:

SCBWI, CBCA, and ASA.

Louis Decrevel is featured in The Style File.