Gabi Swiatkowska Explained

Gabi Swiatkowska
Birth Place:Tychy, Poland
Occupation:Illustrator, musician
Alma Mater:Cooper Union School of Art
Period:2001–present
Genre:Children's picture books
Notableworks:
  • Infinity and Me, My Name is Yoon
Children:1

Gabi Swiatkowska (born 1970) is a Polish-born artist, musician, and children's author and illustrator. She has shown up twice on the ALA Notable Book Award list. One of the books that she illustrated, My Name Is Yoon, won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and is on the New York Public Library's list of 100 Great Children's Books[1]

Life and career

Swiatkowska was born in Tychy, Poland. At fourteen she entered the Lyceum of Art in Bielsko-Biala, and at sixteen she immigrated to New York City, where she attended Cooper Union School of Art.[2] She is the illustrator of fifteen children's books, including A Not Scary Story About Big Scary Things by the poet C. K. Williams,[3] and the author and illustrator of one, Queen on Wednesday.[4] The book she illustrated Infinity and Me was a 2013 ALA Notable Children's Book,[5] and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2012.[6]

Swiatkowska lives in the south of France. She frequently exhibits her paintings and sculptures throughout France,[7] [8] and she was also singer, songwriter and upright bass player in the acoustic string band quartet Tildon Krautz.[9]

Awards

Awards for Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford, illustrated by Swiatkowska

Awards for My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvitz, illustrated by Swiatkowska

Other Awards

Published Books

Books Written and Illustrated

Books Illustrated

Extraordinary Impressionist Painter (Henry Holt & Co., 2015)[24]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: New York Public Library. 100 Great Children's Books 100 Years. March 27, 2014.
  2. Web site: Macmillan Publishers. Gabi Swiatkowska.
  3. Web site: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A Not Scary Story About Big Scary Things. March 27, 2014.
  4. Web site: Tildon Design. List of Gabi's Books. March 27, 2014.
  5. Web site: Lerner Publishing Group. Book Details. March 28, 2014.
  6. Web site: Lerner Publishing Group. Infinity and Me. March 27, 2014.
  7. Web site: . Gabi Swiatkowska (Exposition peintures et illustrations) . Sortir 32 . August 11, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140330004910/http://www.sortir32.fr/Lieu/2160_lectoure_espace_biasolo/10319_gabi_swiatkowska_exposition_peintures_et_illustrations . 30 March 2014 . dead.
  8. Web site: La Depeche. Puymirol. Exposition: jusqu'au 3 mars. March 29, 2014.
  9. Web site: Tildon Krautz Website. Tildon Krautz Bandcamp. March 27, 2014.
  10. Web site: The Bank Street Center for Children's Literature. The 2013 Winners Speak. May 28, 2013 . March 28, 2014.
  11. Web site: New York Times. Best Illustrated Books. . March 28, 2014.
  12. Web site: Reading and Writing with Mrs. Mueller. Vote For Your 2013 Caldecott Winner!. January 9, 2013 . March 29, 2014.
  13. Web site: Junior Library Guild. Infinity and Me.
  14. Web site: Macmillan Publishers. My Name Is Yoon. March 31, 2014.
  15. Web site: The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation . Ezra Jack Keats Award Winners 1986–2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150308213934/http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/ejk-new-writer-and-new-illustrator-awards . March 8, 2015 . mdy .
  16. Web site: Macmillan Publishers. IRA Notable Books for a Global Society. March 28, 2014.
  17. Web site: American Library Association. Notable Children's Books. March 28, 2014.
  18. Web site: Publishers Weekly. Best Children's Books 2003. March 28, 2014.
  19. Book: Amazon.com. My Name Is Yoon. April 3, 2003. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) . 0374351147.
  20. Web site: Library Thing. School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. March 28, 2014.
  21. Web site: Ilene Cooper. The Golden Rule. March 28, 2014.
  22. Web site: Missouri Association of School Librarians. Show Me Award Winners. March 28, 2014.
  23. Web site: Lola Schaefer. Lola's Books. March 28, 2014.
  24. Web site: Macmillan Publishers. Gabi Swiatkowska Author Page . March 27, 2014.
  25. Book: Amazon.com. The Earth Shook. August 18, 2009. Disney-Hyperion . 978-1423104483.
  26. Book: Amazon.com. The Golden Rule. March 2007. Harry N. Abrams . 978-0810909601.
  27. Book: Amazon.com. Summertime Waltz. 2005. Farrar, Straus and Giroux . 0374372918.

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