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.

She then obtained a MA degree at the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Bratislava 2008. Her works range from paintings to linocut and illustration. Her fairytale picture book is published in Japan and the Czech Republic.