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Vane Kosturanov<\/strong> (born in 1979 in Strumica) is a self-taught painter, illustrator and author of children\u2019s books. Besides his paintings, Vane is an awarded children\u2019s books author and illustrator of three picture books: \u201cStar child\u201d (2018), \u201cA Girl and a Bear\u201d (2019) and \u201cThe girl and the city\u201d (2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n His book \u201cA Girl and a Bear\u201d was selected as one of the best 200 children\u2019s books in the world for 2019, and is listed in the White Ravens catalog, issued by the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in M\u00fcnchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His books have been translated into: German, Italian, Portuguese, S. Korean, Turkish, Serbian, Greek, Albanian, Croatian, Slovenian, Polish, Estonian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has illustrated many books by different authors and his illustrations are featured on book covers by various publishers in Macedonia and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vane\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n 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\u2019s rays. They enjoy autumn, playing hide and seek with the sun. They do everything together until one day… Serbia, S. Korea, Germany, Turkiye, Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland, Greek and Albania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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. Turkiye, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and S. Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ars Lamina \u2013 Publications <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kosturanov\u2019s picture books reflect the children’s world with all its developmental challenges, such as imagination, naivety, tenderness, growth and maturation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,209,214,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","category-childrens-literature","category-illustrators","category-new-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23516"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24814,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23516\/revisions\/24814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Outstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
A GIRL AND A BEAR (2019)<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201c\u0410 Girl and a Bear\u201d is a warm, dreamy story about friendship and growing up.
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THE GIRL AND THE CITY (2020)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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