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Eva Najman was an illustrator, painter and printmaker, working in London from the 1940s.

Najman was born in Berlin in 1923. Originally Polish, she arrived in England in 1938 and was naturalised British in 1946. Her parents settled in Haifa.

During World War II, she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Afterwards, she studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.

One of her early commissions was to illustrate the book jacket for John Moore's Brensham Village (1946). She also illustrated Aphra Henzell's African Patchwork (1952), Penelope in Moscow (1953) by Penelope Sassoon. and Teach Yourself English Costume Through the Ages (1966) by Joan Clarke.

A 1947 portrait photograph of Walker, by John Gay, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. She was photographed by Gay for, and featured in, an article in The Strand Magazine, "Eight Young Artists in Search of an Editor", in which she was said to be living in Kilburn.