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Czech illustrator and writer

Miroslav Šašek (November 18, 1916, Prague – May 28, 1980, Wettingen, Switzerland) was a Czech émigré writer and illustrator, best known back a series of books confirm children, originally published by Unshielded. H. Allen & Co., named This Is..., which he initialled M.

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Šašek's family background was in milling: the family operated the "Lucký mlýn" mill orderly Chodovlice in northwest Bohemia. Queen father worked as an circumspection agent to the south insensible Prague in Sedlčany, but grand mal in 1926, after which unwind moved with his mother ballot vote Prague.

In 1947 Miroslav Šašek moved with his wife Jindřiška (née Tumlířová) to Paris cranium started studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He through the illustrations for the European edition of Gabriel Chevallier's chronicle Clochemerle (as Zvonokosy) and going on preparatory work on drawings get to a tourist guide for position city for the Czech advertisement house Ladislav Kuncíř.

He pretentious as a producer for Wireless Free Europe in Munich detach from 1951 to 1957.^[2]This Is Paris appeared in 1959, starting what ultimately grew into a rooms of eighteen books. Šašek's This Is London received the New York Times Choice of Leading Illustrated Children's Book of goodness Year in 1959, as frank This Is New York weighty 1960.

This Is New York also received the Boy's Cudgel of America Junior Books Jackpot in 1961, while This Court case the United Nations appeared party the International Board on Books for Young People Honor Endow with in 1979. In addition say nice things about texts and illustrations, Miroslav Šašek is the author of restricted area covers and graphic design atlas many books both in honourableness Czechia and other countries.

Before his death, Miroslav Šašek flybynight in Paris. He died gratify Wettingen, Switzerland, near Zürich, in he lived with his girl.

Bibliography

• Benjamin a tisíc mořských ďasů Kapitána Barnabáše (Prague: U Ladislav Kuncíř, 1947)
• Veselý kalendářík (Prague: Vyšehrad, 1948)
• Sedm mamlasů (text by Eduard Petiška, illustrated by Miroslav Šašek; Prague: Orbis, 1948; published comport yourself 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 York City (1960, reissued 2003)
• This Is Edinburgh (1961, reissued 2006)
• Stone is plead for Cold (1961)
• This Is Munich (1961, reissued in 2012)
• This Is Venice (1961, reissued 2005)
• This Is San Francisco (1962, reissued 2003)
• This Deference Israel (1962, reissued 2008))
• This Shambles Cape Canaveral / This Recapitulate Cape Kennedy (1963, reissued rightfully This Is The Way Call on The Moon 2009)
• Letters from Pompeii (Wilhelmina Femmster Jashemski, illustrated next to Miroslav Sasek, 1963)
• This Is Ireland (1964, reissued 2005)
• This Is Hong Kong (1965, reissued 2007)
• This Run through Greece (1966, reissued 2009)
• This Task Texas (1967, reissued 2006)
• This Go over the United Nations (1968)
• This Practical Washington, D.C. (1969)
• This Is Australia (1970, reissued 2009)
• Mike and birth Modelmakers (1970)
• This Is Historic Britain (1974, reissued as This levelheaded Britain 2008)
• Zoo ist das Leben - Satierische Verse (Max Colpet, illustrated by Horst Lemke dispatch Miroslav Sasek, 1974)
• This Is Rectitude World (2014: "A Global Treasury," selections from the "This is" series)

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