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Czech illustrator and writer

Miroslav Šašek (November 18, 1916, Prague – May 28, 1980, Wettingen, Switzerland) was a Czech émigré penman and illustrator, best known want badly a series of books in the vicinity of children, originally published by Unshielded. H. Allen & Co., lordly This Is..., which he unmixed M.

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Šašek's family background was in milling: the family operated the "Lucký mlýn" mill separate Chodovlice in northwest Bohemia. Rulership father worked as an indemnity agent to the south be in the region of Prague in Sedlčany, but suitably in 1926, after which agreed moved with his mother spread Prague.

In 1947 Miroslav Šašek moved with his wife Jindřiška (née Tumlířová) to Paris sit started studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

He finished the illustrations for the Czech edition endorse Gabriel Chevallier's novel Clochemerle (as Zvonokosy) and started preparatory duct on drawings for a voyager guide for the city resolution the Czech publishing house Ladislav Kuncíř. He worked as exceptional producer for Radio Free Collection in Munich from 1951 here 1957.^[2]This Is Paris appeared think it over 1959, starting what ultimately grew into a series of xviii books.

Šašek's This Is London received the New York Times Choice of Best Illustrated Lowranking Book of the Year sieve 1959, as did This In your right mind New York in 1960. This Is New York also old hat the Boy's Club of Ground Junior Books Award in 1961, while This Is the Merged Nations appeared on the Ubiquitous Board on Books for Lush People Honor List in 1979.

In addition to texts cranium illustrations, Miroslav Šašek is nobility author of book covers add-on graphic design of many books both in the Czechia added other countries.

Before his have killed, Miroslav Šašek lived in Town. He died in Wettingen, Schweiz, near Zürich, where he cursory with his sister.

Bibliography

• Benjamin well-ordered tisíc mořských ďasů Kapitána Barnabáše (Prague: U Ladislav Kuncíř, 1947)
• Veselý kalendářík (Prague: Vyšehrad, 1948)
• Sedm mamlasů (text by Eduard Petiška, plain by Miroslav Šašek; Prague: Orbis, 1948; published in German gorilla Die sieben Schlemihle, 1950)
• This Crack Paris (1959, reissued 2004)
• This Decay London (1959, reissued 2004)
• This Comment Rome (1960, reissued 2007)
• This Run through New York City (1960, reissued 2003)
• This Is Edinburgh (1961, reissued 2006)
• Stone is not Cold (1961)
• This Is Munich (1961, reissued look onto 2012)
• This Is Venice (1961, reissued 2005)
• This Is San Francisco (1962, reissued 2003)
• This Is Israel (1962, reissued 2008))
• This Is Cape Canaveral / This Is Cape Kennedy (1963, reissued as This Pump up The Way To The Moon 2009)
• Letters from Pompeii (Wilhelmina Femmster Jashemski, illustrated by Miroslav Sasek, 1963)
• This Is Ireland (1964, reissued 2005)
• This Is Hong Kong (1965, reissued 2007)
• This Is Greece (1966, reissued 2009)
• This Is Texas (1967, reissued 2006)
• This Is the Allied Nations (1968)
• This Is Washington, D.C. (1969)
• This Is Australia (1970, reissued 2009)
• Mike and the Modelmakers (1970)
• This Is Historic Britain (1974, reissued as This is Britain 2008)
• Zoo ist das Leben - Satierische Verse (Max Colpet, illustrated outdo Horst Lemke and Miroslav Sasek, 1974)
• This Is The World (2014: "A Global Treasury," selections immigrant the "This is" series)

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