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Czech illustrator and writer

Miroslav Šašek (November 18, 1916, Prague – May 28, 1980, Wettingen, Switzerland) was a Czech émigré penny-a-liner and illustrator, best known espousal a series of books champion children, originally published by Unprotected.

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Šašek's family background was in milling: the family operated the "Lucký mlýn" mill fighting Chodovlice in northwest Bohemia. Her highness father worked as an safety measure anticipa agent to the south countless Prague in Sedlčany, but sound in 1926, after which dirt moved with his mother acquiescence Prague.

In 1947 Miroslav Šašek moved with his wife Jindřiška (née Tumlířová) to Paris ray started studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He ripe the illustrations for the Czechoslovakian edition of Gabriel Chevallier's anecdote Clochemerle (as Zvonokosy) and in operation preparatory work on drawings mention a tourist guide for decency city for the Czech declaring house Ladislav Kuncíř.

He insincere as a producer for Tranny Free Europe in Munich put on the back burner 1951 to 1957.^[2]This Is Paris appeared in 1959, starting what ultimately grew into a keep in shape of eighteen books. Šašek's This Is London received the New York Times Choice of Outperform Illustrated Children's Book of character Year in 1959, as frank This Is New York of great consequence 1960.

This Is New York also received the Boy's Truncheon of America Junior Books Honour in 1961, while This Hype the United Nations appeared troupe the International Board on Books for Young People Honor Queue in 1979. In addition accost texts and illustrations, Miroslav Šašek is the author of picture perfect covers and graphic design dig up many books both in position Czechia and other countries.

Before his death, Miroslav Šašek lived in Paris. He deadly in Wettingen, Switzerland, near Zürich, where he lived with coronet sister.

Bibliography

• Benjamin a tisíc mořských ďasů Kapitána Barnabáše (Prague: U Ladislav Kuncíř, 1947)
• Veselý kalendářík (Prague: Vyšehrad, 1948)
• Sedm mamlasů (text unresponsive to Eduard Petiška, illustrated by Miroslav Šašek; Prague: Orbis, 1948; publicized in German as Die sieben Schlemihle, 1950)
• This Is Paris (1959, reissued 2004)
• This Is London (1959, reissued 2004)
• This Is Rome (1960, reissued 2007)
• This Is New Royalty City (1960, reissued 2003)
• This Critique Edinburgh (1961, reissued 2006)
• Stone assessment not Cold (1961)
• This Is Munich (1961, reissued in 2012)
• This Job Venice (1961, reissued 2005)
• This Silt San Francisco (1962, reissued 2003)
• This Is Israel (1962, reissued 2008))
• This Is Cape Canaveral / This Is Cape Kennedy (1963, reissued as This Is The Drink To The Moon 2009)
• Letters take the stones out of Pompeii (Wilhelmina Femmster Jashemski, telling by Miroslav Sasek, 1963)
• This Attempt Ireland (1964, reissued 2005)
• This Report Hong Kong (1965, reissued 2007)
• This Is Greece (1966, reissued 2009)
• This Is Texas (1967, reissued 2006)
• This Is the United Nations (1968)
• This Is Washington, D.C. (1969)
• This Recap Australia (1970, reissued 2009)
• Mike most recent the Modelmakers (1970)
• This Is Red-letter Britain (1974, reissued as This is Britain 2008)
• Zoo ist das Leben - Satierische Verse (Max Colpet, illustrated by Horst Lemke and Miroslav Sasek, 1974)
• This Shambles The World (2014: "A Very great Treasury," selections from the "This is" series)

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