Miroslav Šašek

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Miroslav Šašek (born November 16, 1916 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † May 28, 1980 in Wettingen , Switzerland ) was a Czechoslovak children's author.

Life

Miroslav Šašek comes from the miller's family who ran the Lucký mlýn mill in Chodovlice . His father was an insurance agent in Sedlčany , but died in 1926. His mother then moved to Prague with the two children. Šašek studied architecture and drawing at the Technical University , a. a. with Oldřich Blažíček . He illustrated a large number of books, including during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia , including two books by Fanda Mrázek . In 1947 he published his first children's book Benjamin a tisíc mořských ďasů Kapitána Barnabáše . After the communist putsch in February 1948 , he emigrated to Paris with his wife. In Munich he worked from 1951 to 1957 for Radio Free Europe as a radio editor and speaker and then lived in Paris and again in Munich. He died in his sister's house in Switzerland.

With the children's book This Is Paris , he began to draw a series of city books for children under the name M. Sasek from 1959, which in the end comprised eighteen titles. Sasek had concrete plans for other places that he had also visited. He received the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award for This is London in 1959, and This is New York in 1960 .

Works (selection)

  • Fanda Mrázek : Šťastný člověk: příběh malého človíčka . Drawings and book cover by Miroslav Šašek. Mladá Boleslav: Hejda & Zbroj, 1943
  • Fanda Mrázek: Bída je pes: humoristický román . Drawings and book cover by Miroslav Šašek. Mladá Boleslav: Hejda & Zbroj, 1944
  • Adam Jist: Splněné touhy . Drawings Miroslav Šašek. Kolíně: Kopecký, 1944
  • Benjamin a tisíc mořských ďasů Kapitána Barnabáše . 1947
  • Veselý kalendářík . 1948
  • Eduard Petiška : The seven Schlemihle . Translation by Peter Lux. Drawings by Miroslav Šašek. Berlin: Children's book publisher, 1950
  • This is Paris . London: Allan Lane, 1959
    • Paris . Munich: Kindler, 1960
  • Another This is title: London ; Rome ; New York City ; Edinburgh ; Munich ; Venice ; San Francisco ; Israel ; This Is Cape Canaveral ; Ireland ; Hong Kong ; Greece ; Texas ; This Is the United Nations ; Washington ; Australia ; This Is Historic Britain
    • German editions: London ; Rome ; New York ; Munich ; Venice ; Israel
  • Stone is not cold . 1961
  • Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski : Letters from Pompeii . Drawings Miroslav Sasek, 1963
  • Mike and the Modelmakers . Matchbox , London: Lesney, 1970
  • Max Colpet : Zoo is Life - Satieric Verses . Illustrations by Horst Lemke and Miroslav Sasek. 1974

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personal data
SURNAME Šašek, Miroslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sasek, Miroslav; Sasek, M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak children's author
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1980
Place of death Wettingen