Jelka Godec Schmidt Explained
| Jelka Godec Schmidt |
| Birth Date: | 1958 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Nationality: | Slovenian |
| Field: | illustrating, writing children's books |
| Training: | Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana |
| Works: | Children's books writing and illustration |
Jelka Godec Schmidt (born 1 May 1958) is a Slovene illustrator and writer of children's books.[1]
Godec was born in Ljubljana in 1958. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and has since worked as a free-lance artist. She has illustrated over 40 books and her illustrations also appear in magazines for children.[2] Her mother Ančka Gošnik Godec is also an illustrator, as was her husband Matjaž Schmidt.
She won the Levstik Award in 1997 for her illustrations of Bisernica: slovenske kratke pripovedi za otroke (Bisernica: Traditional Short Stories for Children).[3]
Selected illustrated works
- Zgodba o volku in lisici (The Tale of the Wolf and the Fox), written by Mojiceja Podgoršek, 2009
- Najlepše pravljice 2 (Most Beautiful Fairy Tales 2), 2009
- Zobek Mlečko pri zobozdravniku (Milky the Tooth at the Dentist's), written by Helena Koncut Kraljič, 2009
- O štirih prijatejih (About Four Friends), written by Mojiceja Podgoršek, 2009
- Janko in Metka in druge pravljice (Hansel and Gretel and Other Fairy Tales), written by Brothers Grimm, 2009
- Mizica, pogrni se in druge pravljice (The Wishing-Table and Other Tales), written by Brothers Grimm, 2009
- Mavrične kraljične (The Rainbow Princesses), written by Helena Koncut Kraljič, 2007
- Škrat Zguba in kameleon 3 (Goblin Looser and Cameleon 3), author and illustrator, 2006
- Najdihojca, written by Fran Levstik, 2005
Notes and References
- http://www.jakrs.si/fileadmin/user_upload/Brosure_in_katalogi/slo_best_for_young_readers_2010_1.pdf Slovenia's Best for Young Readers
- http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/ustvarjalci/ustvarjalec?auid=101 Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site
- Web site: The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site . 12 April 2012 . 17 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120317130359/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade . dead .
