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Lucie SEIFERTOVÁ

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The writer and ilustrator Lucie Seifertova was born April 6. 1969 in Podebrady. After her studies at Hollar's secondary vocational art school she worked as graphic designer for a glass manufacture in Podebrady and for a children's magazine "Ohnicek". In the early 90's she was accepted at the Fine Art Academy in the studio of professor Jiri Sopko. Her debut publication was a three dimensional leporelo (a folding picture book), titled Mysterious Prague (1999).

In the following years Lucie Seifertova was worked as a graphic desiger for magazines, illustrating books and also worked as the artistic director and regularly contributed to the web pages of the Czech Radio Broadcast. For her publication The history of the brave Czech nation and a few world insignificant events (2003), she received the Magnesia Litera Prize as the best children's book for the year 2003, the Golden Ribbon Prize for the best children's nonfiction book and the Golden Seal Prize as the best graphic arts production of the year.

In 2004 she displayed a seventy meter enlargement of her book at the National Museum and since then it has traversed the Czech Republic and was seen by more than 250 thousand people. An English twin of this exhibition successfully toured the United States (New York, Washington D.C., New Orleans, Nebrasca etc.). The exhibition The History of the Courageous Czech Nation also traveled to book fairs in Frankfurt n. M., Bologna, Luxembourg, Prague and Non Fiction in Moscow.

In 2008 she has been working with her husband Pancho on a hundred and eleven episode animated film series for the Czech Television Broadcast titled The Courageous Czech Nation, for which she has received the following prizes: Elsa, for the best animated program, Trilobite and a nomination for the TV prize TyTy. The folding picture books of Lucie Seifertova are also commercially successful.

 

Source and Photo: www.seifertova.cz

This profile was last updated on 1. 6. 2011

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