Piotr Socha

Piotr Socha (born November 13, 1966 ) is a Polish graphic artist and illustrator of picture books .

Life

He worked as an illustrator for various well-known newspapers and magazines, including Gazeta Wyborcza , Polityka , Newsweek , Przekrój , Playboy , Wysokie Obcasy , Harvard Business Review , and the Polish public broadcaster Telewizja Polska and is considered one of the most popular cartoonists in Poland. In the German-speaking world, he was best known for his non-fiction books for children.

He lives and works in Warsaw .

Potwór . Text: Grzegorz Kasdepke. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Dwie Siostry, 2012, ISBN 978-83-608-5015-2 .
Pszczoły . Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Dwie Siostry, 2015, ISBN 978-83-63696-55-9 .
- German: bees. With editorial assistance and technical advice from Wojciech Grajkowski; from the Polish by Thomas Weiler . Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8369-5915-5 .
Drzewa . Text: Wojciech Grajkowski. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Dwie Siostry, 2015, ISBN 978-83-65341-64-8 .
- German: trees . Text by Wojciech Grajkowski; from the Polish by Thomas Weiler . Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8369-5654-3 .

The book Pszczoły ("Bees") has been translated into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Dutch and Chinese as well as German.

In 2017, he received the German Youth Literature Award in the non-fiction category for his picture book bees . In the same year in Austria, it was named Science Book of the Year in the Junior Knowledge Books category by an audience jury.

Literature by and about Piotr Socha in the catalog of the German National Library
Illustrator's website (Polish and English).
Short biography on the website of the Gerstenberg publishing house .
Jury statement and short biography on the occasion of the award of the German Youth Book Prize in the non-fiction category, 2017.