Peter Sís
Autor/a de The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Sobre l'autor
Peter Sis was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1949 and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career as a filmmaker and won the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. He has also won the Grand Prix mostra'n més Toronto and the Cine Golden Eagle Award, and in 1983 collaborated with Bob Dylan on You Got to Serve Somebody. His film work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1982 Sis was sent to Los Angeles to produce a film for the 1984 Winter Olympics. But the film project was canceled when Czechoslovakia and the entire Eastern bloc decided to boycott the Olympics. Ordered by his government to return home, Sis decided to stay in the United States and was granted asylum. Sis then met Maurice Sendak who introduced him to children's books, and he moved to New York City in 1984 to begin a career in children's literature. Sís earned quick acclaim with the publication of the 1986 Newbery Medal Winner, The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman, for which he did the illustrations. Sis is a five-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.. Komodo! and A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North were each named a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, and he has won a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal for Komodo! and a Silver Medal for The Three Golden Keys. Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei was a 1997 Caldecott Honor Book, as was Tibet Through the Red Box. Sis has also received a MacArthur Fellowship Sis' editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines in the United States and abroad. He has published nearly 1,000 drawings in The New York Times Book Review. He has designed many book jackets and posters, including, in 1984, the famous poster for Milos Forman's Academy Award-winning motion picture Amadeus. He has also completed a mural for the Washington/Baltimore Airport, a poster for the New York City subway system, and a stage set for the Joffrey Ballet. His work has been exhibited in Prague, London, Zurich, Hamburg, Los Angeles, and New York in both group and one-man shows. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Matěj Baťha
Obres de Peter Sís
Ballerina 1 exemplars
Obres associades
El Hòbbit, o viatge d'anada i tornada (1937) — Autor de la coberta, algunes edicions — 91,745 exemplars
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (2004) — Autor de la coberta — 1,225 exemplars
The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House (1968) — Il·lustrador, algunes edicions — 302 exemplars
The Art of Reading: Forty Illustrators Celebrate RIF's 40th Anniversary (2005) — Col·laborador — 240 exemplars
A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (2004) — Il·lustrador, algunes edicions — 229 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Sís, Peter
- Data de naixement
- 1949-05-11
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
Czechoslovakia (birth) - Lloc de naixement
- Brno, Czech Republic
- Llocs de residència
- Brno, Czech Republic (birth)
Prague, Czech Republic
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Educació
- Royal College of Art
- Professions
- writer
Illustrator
filmmaker - Premis i honors
- Golden Bear Award (1980 West Berlin Film Festival)
Grand Prix Toronto
Cine Golden Eagle Award
MacArthur Fellowship (2003)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (2011)
Hans Christian Andersen Award (2012) - Biografia breu
- Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1949, he began his film career by winning the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. His film work is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He turned to publishing in 1984 and quickly became one of the leading artists in the field. With more than twenty books to his credit and almost as many honors, Peter is a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Most recently, in 2007, he published The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain, which was awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal and was also named a Caldecott Honor Book. Peter Sís was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003. He lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.
Membres
Ressenyes
The Conference of the Birds de Peter Sis
So mystical; I was bored. But the illustrations are still good.
Really good, but grim. Barely appropriate for children. Contains some photos as well as the usual illustrations.
Only 32 pages but full of detail. As with his other biographies, Sis places numerous small illustrations around or within a larger illustrations, and these smaller illustrations are captioned. The book is large format and he includes two double page illustrations with no text at all, and some, like his illustration of the invasion of France, with very limited text. After a few of his biographies, you get to know what to expect, and if you liked one, you'll probably like them all. Sis is similar to the d'Aulaire's in this respect. I might not have wanted to read a biography of Saint-Exupery if Sis had not written one, but now I'm glad I did.… (més)
In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makeshift headquarters in his hotel room, Nicholas Winton took names and photographs from parents desperate to get their children out of danger. He raised money, found foster families in England, arranged travel and visas, and, when necessary, bribed officials and forged documents. In the frantic spring and summer of 1939, as the Nazi shadow fell over Europe, he organized the transportation of almost 700 children to safety. Then, when the war began and no more children could be rescued, he put away his records and told no one. It was only fifty years later that a chance discovery and a famous television appearance brought Winton’s actions to light. Peter Sís weaves Winton’s experiences and the story of one of the children he saved, Vera Gissing. Nicky & Vera is a tale of decency, action, and courage told in luminous, poetic images by an internationally renowned artist.… (més)
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- Obres
- 37
- També de
- 39
- Membres
- 7,348
- Popularitat
- #3,327
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 424
- ISBN
- 220
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 5
- Pedres de toc
- 210