Dušan Petričić

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Dušan Petričić
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Born 1946
Belgrade, Serbia
Field illustrating, cartoons, animation
Training Academy of Applied Arts, Belgrade
Works Children's books illustrations
Awards Levstik Award
1987 for Guliver med pritlikavci
Silbert Honour
2001 for The Longitude Prize

Dušan Petričić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Петричић) (born 1946) is a Serbian illustrator and caricaturist. He has illustrated numerous children's books and his caricatures have appeared in various newspapers and magazines from Politika to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Toronto Star.[1][2]

Petričić has received numerous awards for his work including an IBBY Certificate of Honour, an Alberta Book Award for his illustrations in Tim Wynne-Jones' On Tumbledown Hill and many others. In 1989 he won the Levstik Award in Slovenia for his illustrations of Guliver med pritlikavci (Gulliver in Lilliput).[3] In 2001 the book The Longitude Prize for which he produced the illustrations won an honour at the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Awards.

Since 1993 he has been living and working in Toronto, Canada.

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