Draft:Puck Koper

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Puck Koper (Rotterdam, 1990) is a Dutch Author/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 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
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."

“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."

Awards

 * 2011 - Winner - Who am I
 * 2013 - Shortlist - Fiep Westendorp Stimuleringsprijs
 * 2015 - Finalist - Boekie Boekie StArt Award
 * 2016 - Highly commended - Beatrix Potter Reimagined LICAF for The tale of two bad mice
 * 2016 - Winner - Studibeurs Cultuurfonds
 * 2017 - Finalist "Distinction" - Nami Concours for The Lift
 * 2019 - Winner - Fiep Westendorp Stimuleringsprijs
 * 2019 - Finalist - Golden Pinwheel Illustration Awards for Where is your sister
 * 2020 - Winner - Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award for Where is your sister
 * 2020 - Shortlist - Klaus Flugge Prize for Where is your sister
 * 2020 - Shortlist - World Illustration Awards for Where is your sister
 * 2021 - Winner - BCBF Image of the Book for Giulietta e Federico (author: Federica Iacobelli)
 * 2023 - Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB) for  Water is voor vissen
 * 2024 - Winnaar - BCBF Illustrators Exhibition for Water is voor vissen
 * 2024 - Boekenbingo for Water is voor vissen

Exhebitions

 * 2011 - Who am I with serie self portraits - Boston, Paris, Rotterdam
 * 2016 - Paper Dolls Diversity UK - London, Cambridge Devin
 * 2017 - Nami Concours voor The Lift - Korea
 * 2019 - Golden Pinwheel Illustration Awards with Where is your sister - China
 * 2020 - World Illustration Awards with Where is your sister - Londen
 * 2020 - Cineteca di Bologna with Giulietta e Federico - Italië
 * 2022 - Expositie 15 years Fiep Westendorp with a retrospective - Amsterdam
 * 2023 - Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB) with Water is voor vissen
 * 2024 / 2025 - BCBF Illustrators Exhibition with Water is voor vissen - Italië, Japan, Korea, China