Orel Odinov Protopopescu

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Orel Odinov Protopopescu (* in Hempstead / New York ) is an American children's author and poet.

Protopopescu grew up in Hempstead as the youngest of three daughters of a primary school teacher and a lawyer from Russia. Protopopescu became known as a children's book author with the picture books Since Lulu Learned the Cancan (illustrated by Sandra Forrest ) and The Perilous Pit (illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast ). Both are now available as apps for the iPad and as video games. In 2013 her bilingual interactive poetry app for children A Word's A Bird, Spring Flies By in Rhymes was released . Another picture book by her is Thelonius Mouse (2011, with illustrations by Anne Wilsdorf ), for which she received the Crystal Kite Award in 2012 .

Also on children judge the with Siyu Liu wrote book A Thousand Peaks, Poems from China , which in the list of the 2003 Books for the Teen Age of the New York Public Library was added, and Two Sticks , the 2008 list of the best children's books of the year of the Bank Street College of Education . Metaphors & Similes You Can Eat and Twelve More Poetry Writing Lessons is aimed at teachers . Her poems for adults have appeared in various literary magazines and were among others. a. positively reviewed by Louis Simpson . With the poem Listening to My Favorite Things from the Best of John Coltrane she won a competition with LS Asekoff as juror in 2010 . In 2011 her chapbook What Remains was published .

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SURNAME Protopopescu, Orel Odinov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lyric poet and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Hempstead (Town, New York)