Anne Villeneuve (illustrator)

Anne Villeneuve
Anne Villeneuve
Born	September 7, 1966; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Dawson College

Anne Villeneuve (born September 7, 1966) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books who lives in Quebec.[1]

Life

She was born in Montreal and studied design and illustration at CEGEP Dawson. She was a finalist in the Communication-Jeunesse/Culinar competition.[1] Villeneuve also has done artwork for scenery for Cirque du Soleil shows, murals for Red Bull and posters for the Dairy Farmers of Canada.[2]

Arthur's Dad (1991), text by Ginette Anfousse,
Une gardienne pour Étienne (1998),
L'Écharpe Rouge (1999), translated as The Red Scarf (2005),
Me voilà! (2004), text by Nathalie Savaria,
Le nul et la chipie (2004), text by François Barcelo,
Chère Traudi (2008),
Loula et la recette fantasformidable, translated as Loula and the Sister Recipe (2014),
Loula part pour l'Afrique, translated as Loula is Leaving for Africa (2014),

1998: won a Mr. Christie's Book Award for Une gardienne pour Étienne.
1999: won the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration for The Red Scarf.
1999: won the Prix Québec-Wallonie-Bruxelles de littérature de jeunesse for The Red Scarf.
1999: was shortlisted for a Mr. Christie's Book Award for The Red Scarf.
2004: won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for Le nul et la chipie.
2008: won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for Chère Traudi.
2014: won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award for Loula is Leaving for Africa.[3]
2014: shortlisted for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award for Loula is Leaving for Africa.

gollark: It's fibre-to-nearby-box-then-copper.

gollark: BT's offering is in fact not proper fibre.

gollark: That's not fibre.

gollark: I haven't really looked at symmetric encryption algorithms available in CC much.

gollark: pjals, fun fact: skynet is my project.

"Anne Villeneuve" (in French). Communication-Jeunesse. Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
"Anne Villeneuve". TD Canadian Children's Book Week. Archived from the original on 2016-02-08. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
"Teresa Toten, Anne Villeneuve win kids lit award". www.cbc.ca. Retrieved 2016-02-11.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.