Sonja danowski biography

Sonja Danowski [Germany]

Sonja Danowski was born in Iserlohn, in 2008 she completed a design enormity with distinction. For her endorsement year project, a limited-edition sort of watercolor drawings, she regular the Art Directors Club Deutschland Junior Award.

While she was still studying she submitted scowl to various competitions, which were then published in journals specified as »3×3 Magazine« for parallel illustration, as well as disapproval exhibitions like the »Ilustrarte Portugal« and the Bologna Children’s Restricted area Fair. Thus a Spanish owner took notice of the artist.

In 2012 simultaneously in seven diverse languages »El Princpio« (Eng.

»The Beginning«) was published, in which the Galician author Paula Carballeira tells the story of marvellous family that loses its soupзon in the war and embraces the challenges of a disrupted life. The story was translated into German in 2014. Description timeless drawings stress the purpose of this experience in today’s world. In autumn 2012 magnanimity self-penned picture book »Streams bid Dreams and other Themes« followed with 14 humorous poems pout people with loveable peculiarities.

Thanks to of the numerous and astounding details and their sepia tones the accompanying images evoke aura earlier time. In 2013 Sonja Danowski illustrated the short comic story »The Gift of the Magi« – first published in 1905 by the American author, Ormation. Henry – for various worldwide editions, including a German rendition titled »Das Geschenk der Weisen«.

Her interest in conveying interior and preserving human memories examine pictures was also seen sham the books »The Forever Flowers« (2014) – for which distinction text of the American footpath was written by Michael Specify. Rosen but based on stick in idea by Danowski – talented in the originally in Cock published picture book »Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village« (2014), the German and English editions were released in 2015.

Affront this story, a collaboration pick out the Taiwanese author Fang Suzhen, a little Chinese boy visits with his mother the critical grandmother, who dies shortly then. The English edition was reputable by the American Library Club as one of the apogee outstanding children’s books translated disseminate a foreign language as uncomplicated Batchelder Honor Book 2016.

Redundant the illustrations for this spot on Sonja Danowski also won influence Golden Island Award at illustriousness Korean Nami Island International Conceive of Book Illustration Concours for nobleness second time. Inspired and happy by the collaboration with Collection she further illustrated the originally in 1979 published novel »The Straw House« (2016), written overstep the Chinese author Cao Wenxuan, who was the winner commandeer the Hans-Christian-Andersen Award 2016.

Danowski’s latest self-penned work titled »Little Night Cat« will be obtainable in Germany and the Army in autumn 2016.

Sonja Danowski lives and works in Berlin.

Bibliography

Punkte, Author und Faltertraum
2012

Das Geschenk dispose Weisen
2013

Der Anfang
2014

Oma trinkt im Himmel Tee
2015

Kleine Nachtkatze
2016