Carme Solé Vendrell

Carme Solé Vendrell (born Barcelona, 1944) is an award-winning Spanish illustrator and writer, mainly of children's books. Since 1968, she has illustrated more than a hundred books. She has also worked on television series such as Víctor y María. She was a Premi Nacional de Cultura laureate in 1979 and 2012.[1]

Carme Solé Vendrell
Carme Solé (center) at National Library of Catalonia with Ferran Mascarell and Eugènia Serra.
Native name
Macarena Santos i Torres
Born1944
Barcelona
LanguageSpanish
NationalitySpanish
Genrechildren's books
Notable worksPremi Nacional de Cultura laureate

Between 2012 and 2015 his collection was deposited in the Biblioteca de Catalunya, consisting of about 400 drawings.

Awards
  • 1979: "Premi Nacional de Cultura"
  • 1993: "Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Literatura Infantil i Juvenil" for her illustrations in Brrrrrgg! by Jaume Escala
  • 2006: Creu de Sant Jordi Award
  • 2012: "Premi Nacional de Cultura"

Selected works
  • Raspall (1981)
  • La lluna d'en Joan (1982)
  • Jo les volia (1984)
  • En Joan és molt petit (1990)
  • Els nens del mar (1991)
  • Magenta la petita fada (2003) ISBN 9788426437884, OCLC 432979296

Works in English
  • Water Childrens Press Choice, 1984, ISBN 9780516086941, OCLC 16678079
  • Sally's story London : Blackie, 1984. ISBN 9780216915756, OCLC 906462088
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References
  1. Álvarez-Dardet, Alfonso (11 October 2013). "Carme Solé gana por segunda vez el Premio Nacional de Ilustración - La artista catalana obtiene el galardón, el primero fue en 1979, por toda su trayectoria profesional". El Pais. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

Bibliography
  • "Carme Solé Vendrell", por Jaime García Sobrino, en Nous voulons lire !, n° 104, junio de 1994, pp. 81–88.
  • "Carme Solé Vendrell", en CLIJ, n° 60, abril de 1994, pp. 25–26.
  • "Carme Solé i Vendrell" en Bookbird, n° 32-33, otoño de 1994, p. 48.
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