David Polonsky

David Polonsky (born 1973) is a Ukraine-born Israeli book illustrator an artistic film director.[1]

David Polonsky

His illustrations appeared in all major Israeli magazines and newspapers and illustrated many children's books, for which he received multiple awards. He also directed children's animated TV films. He taught illustration at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.[1]

In 2017, he and Ari Folman created a graphic novel adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank.[2][3]

In 2018 an English-language translation of The Heart-Shaped Leaf (written by Shira Geffen and illustrated by Polonsky) was published by Green Bean Books. [4]

Filmography

Awards
  • 2004 Ben-Yitzhak Prize of the Israel Museum for Children's Books Illustration, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2008 The Excellence Award of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem
  • 2008 Ben-Yitzhak Prize of the Israel Museum for Children's Books Illustration, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2008 The Ophir Prize of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television for artistic direction, for Waltz with Bashir
  • 2008 Award for Decorations, Cinema Eye Honors, for Waltz with Bashir
  • 2012 Andersen Prize for the Illustration of Children's Books, International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), Basel, Switzerland.
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References
  2. "The Diary of Anne Frank by Ari Folman and David Polonsky"
  3. "'You Feel All That Loss in One Image': Anne Frank's Diary Re-imagined as an Edgy Graphic Novel", Haaretz
  4. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heart-Shaped-Leaf-Shira-Geffen/dp/1784382620/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=the+heart-shaped+leaf+green&qid=1579034678&s=books&sr=1-7
  5. Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story, Atlantic Books, 1 March 2009, ISBN 978-1-84887-068-0
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