AUTORI

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Michio Watanabe

Michio Watanabe was born in 1961 in Kobe, Japan. He studied oil painting and printmaking at Kyoto Seika University. After graduation, he worked in a silkscreen print studio as printer. In 1989 he became a free-lance illustrator and founded his own design studio called STUDIO14. He works for magazines, designs book covers and advertisement material. He has been selected for the Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2009 and 2011.

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Mika Ichii

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Mika Ichii

Mika Ichii was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. She is a picture book artist and painter. She not only exhibits her works but also holds public readings, small concerts (singing with the ukelele) and workshops for children and adults on how to make picture books. Recently she has also started to create theater puppets. Her major works are many, such as “Neko no Pikari to mado no hoshi” (Pikari the Cat and Stars at the Window) published by Akane Shobo, “Rōsoku ippon (One Candlestick) published by Komine Shoten, “Imomushi Kaigi” (Caterpillar Meeting) published by Shogakukan, the Little Pig Burton series published by Alice-kan and “Ippon no michi wo aruite itara” (Walking Down the Path) published by Hikarinokuni. She lives and works in an old remodelled clinic together with her husband, son and Ramune the cat on the highlands in Shiga Prefecture.

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Miroslav Regitko

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Miroslav Regitko

Miroslav Regitko was born in Hnúšť Likier, Slovak Republic, in 1965. He studied graphic art and book making with Prof. Dušan Kállay at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He lives and works in Šaľa, near Bratislava. Here is a selection of some of the books he has illustrated: Tomáš Janovic (text), “Kráľovná krásy”, Genezis, 1993 Roman Brat (text), “O malom obrovi”, Mladé letá, 2005 Futová Gabriela (text), “Brata musíš poslúcha”, Mladé Letá, 2011

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Nana Furiya

Nana Furiya was born in 1961 inTokyo, Japan. She studied printmaking with Professor Dušan Kállay at the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Bratislava. From 1992 she resides in Slovakia. Her activities range from picture book illustration to painting and printmaking. She has illustrated more than sixty picture books and for some, has also written the texts. Her works are published in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, and in the U.S.A.

Nanako Ishida

Nanako Ishida was born in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Daito-bunka University with a BA in International Culture. In 2002 she attended a printmaking course by correspondence held by Musashino Art University. She then moved on to Bratislava to attend a supplemental course in Printmaking and Illustration held by Professor Dusan Kallay at the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Bratislava from 2004 to 2006. She was awarded the Slovak National library Prize for Students’ Works at the ‘The Most Beautiful Books in Slovakia’ Competition in 2007.