Carme Solé Vendrell (born 1944 in
Barcelona
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) is a Spanish
illustrator
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and writer, mainly of children's books. Since 1968, she has illustrated more than a hundred books. She has also worked on television series such as ''Víctor y María''. She was a Premio Nacional de Cultura laureate in 1979 and 2012.
Between 2012 and 2015 her collection was deposited in the
Biblioteca de Catalunya
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, consisting of about 400 drawings.
Awards
* 1979: "Premio Nacional de Cultura"
* 1993: "Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Literatura Infantil i Juvenil" for her illustrations in ''Brrrrrgg!'' by
Jaume Escala
* 2006:
Creu de Sant Jordi Award
The Creu de Sant Jordi (, in English 'St George's Cross') is one of the highest civil distinctions awarded in Catalonia (Spain), surpassed only in protocol by the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya. It was established by the Generalit ...
* 2012: "Premi Nacional de Cultura"
Selected works
* ''Raspall'' (1981)
* ''La lluna d'en Joan'' (1982)
* ''Jo les volia'' (1984)
* ''En Joan és molt petit'' (1990)
* ''Els nens del mar'' (1991)
* ''Magenta la petita fada'' (2003) ,
Works in English
*''Water'' Childrens Press Choice, 1984, ,
*''Sally's story'' London : Blackie, 1984. ,
References
Sources
* "Carme Solé Vendrell", by Jaime García Sobrino, in ''Nous voulons lire !'', no. 104, June 1994, pp. 81–88
* "Carme Solé Vendrell", in ''CLIJ'', no. 60, April 1994, pp. 25–26
* "Carme Solé i Vendrell" in ''Bookbird'', no. 32-33, Autumn 1994, p. 48
External links
Official websiteCarme Solé Vendrell collection in the National Library of Catalonia
1944 births
Living people
Writers from Barcelona
20th-century Spanish writers
21st-century Spanish writers
Spanish children's writers
Spanish women children's writers
Spanish illustrators
Spanish women children's book illustrators
Spanish children's book illustrators
20th-century Spanish women writers
21st-century Spanish women writers
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