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 Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: Happy 75th, Krystyna Turska! (Polish illustrator of folklore |
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She lives in London.
"Krystyna Zofia Turska was born in 1933 and spent her childhood in
Poland until World War Two. In 1940 she was arrested with her family."
"(We were) taken to a concentration camp near Archangel in northern
Russia, where we spent the next two years. Very luckily for all of us,
the creation of new Polish Armed Forces in Russian territory gave us
the opportunity to get away. After a very long and extremely tiring
journey through Russia, we were allowed to enter Persia (Iran) and
were immediately placed in the care of the Allied forces. After going
through Iraq, Palestine and Egypt our wandering finally came to a stop
when we arrived in the United Kingdom in 1948."
AWARDS
Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal, 1970, for Pegasus; Kate
Greenaway Medal, 1972, for Woodcutter's Duck.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=krystyna+turska&gbv=2
(a few covers)
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=krystyna+turska&pics=on&sortby=7&x=0&y=0
(about 20 titles/covers in rough alphabetical order)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2227202/
(brief 1971 "Jackanory" credits)
WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
For children; all retold by Turska:
Pegasus (Greek mythology), Watts, 1970.
Tamara and the Sea Witch (folklore), Hamish Hamilton, 1971, Parents'
Magazine Press, 1972.
The Woodcutter's Duck (fairy tale), Macmillan, 1972.
The Magician of Cracow (folklore), Greenwillow, 1975.
Illustrator:
William Mayne, Book of Heroes, Dutton, 1966.
Jacynth Hope-Simpson, The Hamish Hamilton Book of Witches (fiction),
Hamish Hamilton, 1966, published as A Cavalcade of Witches, Walck,
1967.
James Reeves, The Trojan Horse (fiction), Hamish Hamilton, 1968,
Watts, 1969.
Alan Garner, A Cavalcade of Goblins, Walck, 1969.
Gillian Avery and others, Authors' Choice: Stories (fiction), Hamish
Hamilton, 1970, Crowell, 1971.
Roger L. Green, A Cavalcade of Dragons (stories), Walck, 1970,
published as Hamish Hamilton Book of Dragons, Hamish Hamilton, 1970.
Geoffrey Trease, A Masque for the Queen (fiction), Hamish Hamilton,
1970.
Avery, Ellen and the Queen (fiction), Hamish Hamilton, 1971, Nelson,
1974.
Michael Brown, The Hamish Hamilton Book of Sea Legends (folklore),
Hamish Hamilton, 1971, published as A Cavalcade of Sea Legends, Walck,
1972.
Avery, Red Letter Days, Hamish Hamilton, 1971.
Reeves, The Path of Gold, Hamish Hamilton, 1972.
Janet McNeill, The Snow-Clean Pinny, Hamish Hamilton, 1972.
Joan Aiken and others, Authors' Choice 2: Stories (fiction), Hamish
Hamilton, 1973, Crowell, 1974.
Francis Eager, The Dolphin of the Two Seas, Hamish Hamilton, 1973,
Barbara Willard, compiler, Happy Families (prose), Macmillan, 1974.
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Marra's World (fiction), Greenwillow,
1975.
Kathleen Killip, Saint Bridget's Night: Stories From the Isle of Man,
Hamish Hamilton, 1975.
James Riordan, Russian Tales (folklore), Viking Press, 1976.
Honor Arundel, The High House, Hamish Hamilton, c. 1977.
John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River (fairy tales), Greenwillow,
1978.
Charles Causley, The Last King of Cornwall, Hodder & Stoughton, 1978.
Helen Cooper, Great Grandmother Goose, Greenwillow, 1979.
Riordan, Tales from Central Russia: Russian Tales, Volume I, Viking,
1979.
William Mayne, The Mouse and the Egg, Greenwillow, 1981.
Ruzena Wood, The Palace of the Moon and Other Tales From
Czechoslovakia, Deutsch, 1981.
Linda M. Jennings, Coppelia, Silver Burdett (Morristown, NJ), 1985.
Linda M. Jennings, Crispin and the Dancing Piglet, Silver Burdett
(Morristown, NJ), 1986.
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