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Carme Solé Vendrell

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Spanish illustrator and writer (born c. 1944)
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Carme Solé Vendrell
Carme Solé (center) at National Library of Catalonia (2013)Carme Solé (center) at National Library of Catalonia (2013)
Native nameMacarena Santos i Torres
Born1944
Barcelona
LanguageSpanish
NationalitySpanish
Genrechildren's books
Notable worksPremi Nacional de Cultura laureate

Carme Solé Vendrell (born Barcelona, 1944) is a Spanish illustrator 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, 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
  • 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) ISBN 9788426437884, OCLC 432979296

Works in English

References

  1. Álvarez-Dardet, Alfonso (11 October 2013). "Carme Solé gana por segunda vez el Premio Nacional de Ilustración - La artista catalana obtiene el galardón, el primero fue en 1979, por toda su trayectoria profesional" [Carme Solé wins the National Illustration Award for the second time - The Catalan artist receives the award, the first was in 1979, for her entire professional career]. El Pais. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

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

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