Peter Sís
Auteur de Le mur : Mon enfance derrière le rideau de fer
A propos de l'auteur
Peter Sis was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1949 and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career as a filmmaker and won the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. He has also won the Grand Prix afficher plus Toronto and the Cine Golden Eagle Award, and in 1983 collaborated with Bob Dylan on You Got to Serve Somebody. His film work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1982 Sis was sent to Los Angeles to produce a film for the 1984 Winter Olympics. But the film project was canceled when Czechoslovakia and the entire Eastern bloc decided to boycott the Olympics. Ordered by his government to return home, Sis decided to stay in the United States and was granted asylum. Sis then met Maurice Sendak who introduced him to children's books, and he moved to New York City in 1984 to begin a career in children's literature. Sís earned quick acclaim with the publication of the 1986 Newbery Medal Winner, The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman, for which he did the illustrations. Sis is a five-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.. Komodo! and A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North were each named a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, and he has won a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal for Komodo! and a Silver Medal for The Three Golden Keys. Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei was a 1997 Caldecott Honor Book, as was Tibet Through the Red Box. Sis has also received a MacArthur Fellowship Sis' editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines in the United States and abroad. He has published nearly 1,000 drawings in The New York Times Book Review. He has designed many book jackets and posters, including, in 1984, the famous poster for Milos Forman's Academy Award-winning motion picture Amadeus. He has also completed a mural for the Washington/Baltimore Airport, a poster for the New York City subway system, and a stage set for the Joffrey Ballet. His work has been exhibited in Prague, London, Zurich, Hamburg, Los Angeles, and New York in both group and one-man shows. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Matěj Baťha
Œuvres de Peter Sís
Diskotéka Petra Síse : [samostatný katalog ke knize Zeď - jak jsem vyrůstal za železnou oponou a k výstavě… (2009) 1 exemplaire
[ Stories to Solve: Folktales from Around the World ] By Sis, Peter ( Author ) [ 2000 ) [ Paperback ] 1 exemplaire
Madlenka 1 exemplaire
[ Stories to Solve: Folktales from Around the World ] By Sis, Peter ( Author ) [ 2000 ) [ Paperback ] 1 exemplaire
Ballerina 1 exemplaire
Tybet. Tajemnica Czerwonej Skrzynki 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (2004) — Artiste de la couverture — 1,250 exemplaires
Le Vent du Feu, tome 2 : Les Esclaves de la Seigneurie (2001) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 1,064 exemplaires
Le Vent de feu, tome 3 : Le Chant des flammes (2002) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 987 exemplaires
The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House (1968) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 310 exemplaires
L'Homme qui brillait la nuit (Bibliothèque verte) (1965) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 275 exemplaires
The Art of Reading: Forty Illustrators Celebrate RIF's 40th Anniversary (2005) — Contributeur — 243 exemplaires
A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (2004) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 236 exemplaires
A Gopher in the Garden and Other Animal Poems (1967) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions — 6 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Sís, Peter
- Date de naissance
- 1949-05-11
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
Tchécoslovaquie (Naissance) - Lieu de naissance
- Brno, Czech Republic
- Lieux de résidence
- Brno, Czech Republic (birth)
Prague, Czech Republic
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Royal College of Art
- Professions
- writer
Illustrator
filmmaker - Prix et distinctions
- Golden Bear Award (1980 West Berlin Film Festival)
Grand Prix Toronto
Cine Golden Eagle Award
MacArthur Fellowship (2003)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (2011)
Hans Christian Andersen Award (2012) - Courte biographie
- Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1949, he began his film career by winning the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. His film work is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He turned to publishing in 1984 and quickly became one of the leading artists in the field. With more than twenty books to his credit and almost as many honors, Peter is a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Most recently, in 2007, he published The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain, which was awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal and was also named a Caldecott Honor Book. Peter Sís was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003. He lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.
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L'auteur trouve le journal tenu par son père lors d'un voyage au Tibet... Souvenirs, histoires.
Le texte est ici peu important. Les illustrations, souvent pleine page sont très riches, détaillées et font rêver. Certaines proposent des jeux.
Le texte est ici peu important. Les illustrations, souvent pleine page sont très riches, détaillées et font rêver. Certaines proposent des jeux.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 42
- Aussi par
- 38
- Membres
- 7,688
- Popularité
- #3,167
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 431
- ISBN
- 230
- Langues
- 17
- Favoris
- 5
À chaque page, le passé de cette ville hors du commun, inscrit dans chaque pavé, chaque pont ou chaque ruelle, se mêle aux souvenirs plus personnels de l’auteur, qui raconte son enfance à sa fille Madeleine, née en Amérique. Livre superbe, initiation historique et esthétique, véritable voyage avec un ami, Les trois Clés d’or de Prague est l’un des plus merveilleux albums de Peter Sís.
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