Puck Koper
Puck Koper surrounded by her work in 2019
Puck Koper surrounded by her work in 2019
Born1990
OccupationAuthor, Illustrator
LanguageDutch, English
NationalityThe Nederlands
EducationCambridge school of art
GenreChildren's literature
Notable worksWhere is your sister, Water is voor vissen
Notable awardsFiep Westendorp stimuleringsprijs, BolognaRagazzi Award opera prima, International Prize Image of the Book,
Website
http://www.puckkoper.nl

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Puck Koper (Rotterdam, 1990) is a Dutch Authors/Illustrator.

Puck Koper studied illustration at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, after which she started working as a set-painter for the National Theater. In 2017 she started her master's degree at the Cambridge School of Art where she graduated with distinction. Her debut, 'Where Is Your Sister?' (Two Hoots Publishers), which was published in England, was immediately awarded the Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award, was shortlisted for the prestigious Klaus Flugge Prize and was published in 8 different languages. In the Netherlands she received the Fiep Westendorp Incentive Prize.

Puck Koper Lives and works in Rotterdam.

Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award 2020

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In 2020 Puck Koper won the Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award with her book Where is your sister. Internationally the highest award for best debuting children's book in the world.

Quote from the jury report by Marcella Terrusi:

"Opera Prima (Debut work) category candidates always contain interesting editorial projects. They testify to courage on the part of publishers to take on new authors at the outset of their careers but also to the courage of new authors and artists to seek out their own voice and story-telling ability. These two elements have come together perfectly in the award-winning book Where is Your Sister? – a hide-and-seek book, a well-paced visual game that will delight young readers as they try and find a little girl who gets separated from her family in a large shopping centre. The amusing patterns of the characters’ clothes are a guide for the reader’s eye, in this mature albeit debut work."[1]

“An animated, funny children's book distilled into clean lines, limited flat pallet, geometric shapes where in crowded pages readers are encouraged to search and find, as a child gets away from her mother and sister in a department store, and ultimately earns cake. Playing with the universal fear of losing."[2]

Awards

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Exhibitions

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Bibliography

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  • Where is your sister - Two Hoods Mac Millan - ISBN 9781509867226
  • Giulietta e Federico - Camelo zampa - ISBN 9788899842772
  • Het lijkt wel een feestje - Lannoo - ISBN 9789401469005
  • Vrolijk verval - Nijgh & Van Ditmar (via Singel) - ISBN 9789038810638
  • Het mooiste van Annie M.G. Schmidt - Querido - ISBN 9789045126739
  • Water is voor vissen - Querido - ISBN 9789045127514[3]
  • Daantje Dodo wil een hond (maar pappa niet) - Lannoo - ISBN 9789401481335
  • Schipper mag ik overvaren - Lannoo - ISBN 9789401485340[4]

{{Appendix}} [[Category:Dutch writers]] [[Category:Dutch illustrators]]

  1. ^ Fiere, Bologna (2021-05-22). "A walk through the pages of the 2020 BolognaRagazzi Awards - Part I". Fairtale The BCBF waggles. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  2. ^ Fiere, Bologna. "OPERA PRIMA 2020". Bologna Children bookfair. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  3. ^ Weverling, Aukelien (2023-04-14). "Zes stoere zeebonken geven zwemles op het droge". NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  4. ^ "Puck Koper". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2024-03-26.