About me

My name is Roswitha Grisi-Huber and I am a Swiss born author and illustrator for children’s books, living and residing in Bolivia for over 40 years. Having taught primary school students for 29 years and being involved in music, theatre, painting and reading throughout my whole life, I feel provided with exceptional background to become a writer-illustrator. In 2013, my first book “La Bolita” was published. In 2014 “La media ch’ulla” was released, marking my biggest success so far with socks being
sold with the illustrations from the book. Since retiring from work as a teacher, I also wrote and illustrated: “Esperanza” in 2019, “Helado de tumbo” in 2021 and “Punti” in 2022. I also illustrated 2 books “M de Martín” in 2023 and “Claudina” in 2024 in cooperation with the Bolivian author Veronica Linares. In the end of 2024 followed “Die Kleine Menagerie” (The little zoo), an illustration of my father’s (Paul Huber) cantata with the same name about poems of the German poet Christian Morgenstern, work that has been a long wanted desire to realize. As a children's author, I feel the need to convey a story for the children, where they can connect, identify themselves and learn something. Playing with their imagination, stories outside of the reality can take interesting turns, for example “La media ch’ulla” (“the lost sock”). Who hasn’t lost a sock some time?

Since the age of 5, I have always been actively involved with the theatre scene, whether as an actor or in production. I performed in school plays as a kid as well as a hobby when adult, there in Switzerland as well as here in Bolivia with the German group “Die bunten Bretter”. I also have a film experience with the renown Bolivian director Marcos Loayza in his film “Averno” (2021) as the woman who protects “the Hades” (the underworld). In my last work, I produced and directed “Itaca – a sensorial experience”, a play based on the poem “Itaca” by the Bolivian author Blanca Wiethüchter into a sensorial monologue. Itaca was performed in 4 different theaters in La Paz, Bolivia.