- Publisher: Zala
- 32 pages
- Author:
- Ilustrator: Marta Bartolj
- ISBN: 52432412516
- Original title: Kosmatice
Kosmatice is a place ‘where deer, bees and flowers are alive at all hours.’ In these poems the poet journeys back to his childhood, into those spaces and places where ‘poets bake the most delicious poems’ which even birds like to tweet while ‘they fly in the blue sky’. This is a collection of playful and wicked verse in rhyme, by turns serious and profound. Just like curious and laughing children who can be thoughtful and naughty at the same time.
Can you spot the redstart, a little bird who sings poetically on each and every page of Kosmatice? One only has to find it!
The poetry by a distinguished Slovenian poet Milan Šelj is brought vividly to life by an award-winning and much-loved illustrator Marta Bartolj.
Marta Bartolj
Marta Bartolj was born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, in 1979. After graduating from the Arthouse College of Visual Arts, Ljubljana, in 2011, she pursued her postgraduate master’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, where she immersed herself in illustration. Marta loves to put on my illustrator’s shoes — they are the ones she feels most comfortable in. Awards, special mentions: 2021 Finalist for the 55th Illustrators Exhibition Bologna. 2020 Finalist for the BIBF Ananas Illustration Awards/International Illustration Exhibition. 2020 The Golden Pear Label for the book "Will everything be all right?" (Cvetka Sokolov, Miš Publish.). 2020 The White Ravens for "Will everything be all right?" (Cvetka Sokolov, Miš Publish.). 2019 IBBY Silent Books Collection: from the world to Lampedusa and back - "Kje si?" on the Honour list 2019. 2019 The Golden Pear Label, "Kje si?". 2019 The White Ravens, "Kje si?". 2018 The nomination and Special prize for the book "Kje si?" ("Where are you?") as an outstanding wordless picture book at the 2018 Kristina Brenkova Awards. 2016 UL ALUO Student's Award for my Master's Thesis. 2015 7th Brumen (shortlisted).
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