Photo: Maja Argakieva
Kosturanov’s picture books reflect the children’s world with all its developmental challenges, such as imagination, naivety, tenderness, growth and maturation.
Biography
Vane Kosturanov (born in 1979 in Strumica) is a self-taught painter, illustrator and author of children’s books. Besides his paintings, Vane is an awarded children’s books author and illustrator of three picture books: “Star child” (2018), “A Girl and a Bear” (2019) and “The girl and the city” (2020).
His book “A Girl and a Bear” was selected as one of the best 200 children’s books in the world for 2019, and is listed in the White Ravens catalog, issued by the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in München.
His books have been translated into: Croatian, Serbian, Korean, Italian, Slovenian, German, Turkish, and Portuguese.
He has illustrated many books by different authors and his illustrations are featured on book covers by various publishers in Macedonia and abroad.
Vane’s paintings and illustrations have been exhibited in galleries in Macedonia and various European countries. His works are included in private and public collections in Europe, the US and the UK.
Outstanding title:
A GIRL AND A BEAR (2019)
A little girl and a little bear open the doors to their world for us, a world that is as ordinary as it is extraordinary. Spending all their time together, they discover many new things. They find out that the faster they ride their bike, the stronger the wind blows through their hair. They climb the highest hills, trying to touch the sun’s rays. They enjoy autumn, playing hide and seek with the sun. They do everything together until one day…
“А Girl and a Bear” is a warm, dreamy story about friendship and growing up.
No. of pp: 38
Awards and honors:
- White Ravens 2019, International Youth Library, Munich
- Best illustrated book (1st prize) by Macedonian Publishers Association, Skopje Book Fair 2019
Rights sold to:
Serbia, S. Korea, Germany, Turkiye.
Latest title:
THE GIRL AND THE CITY (2020)
A girl lives in a gray city, where the sun, the birds, the butterflies have not come for a long time… One day, wandering the streets full of people, she gets lost and unexpectedly finds herself in front of a huge forest, in which she would discover things that would change her life radically.
No. of pp: 32
Awards and honors:
- Best illustrated book (3rd prize) by Macedonian Publishers Association, Skopje Book Fair 2020
Translations:
Turkish, Portuguese, Italian, Slovenian, Croatian.
Rights:
Ars Lamina – Publications
rights@arslamina.com
389 (0) 2 3124 227
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