David Polonsky
Illustration — David Polonsky David Polonsky (born 1973) is an Israeli book illustrator and artistic film director.
David Polonsky
Mark Neyman · Mark Neyman / Government Press Office of Israel · Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1973 · Kyiv.
- Nationality
- Israel
- Occupation
- illustrator · artist · writer · docent
- Fields
- painting · illustration · animation
- Education
- Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
- Languages
- Hebrew
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Illustration — David Polonsky David Polonsky (born 1973) is an Israeli book illustrator and artistic film director.
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David Polonsky (born 1973) is an artist, docent and illustrator, among other activities, of Israeli nationality. The artist was born in Kyiv.
David Polonsky was educated at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. The artist worked in Soviet Union. Activity centred on animation, illustration and painting. Languages used include Hebrew.
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His illustrations appeared in all major Israeli magazines and newspapers and illustrated many children's books, for which he received multiple awards. He also directed children's animated TV films. He taught illustration at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. In 2018, he illustrated Ari Folman's graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank's diary. That same year, an English-language translation of The Heart-Shaped Leaf (written by Shira Geffen and illustrated by Polonsky) was published by Green Bean Books.
Filmography
Filmography
• 2008: Waltz with Bashir, animated war documentary; made into a graphic novel by Folman and Polonsky • 2013: The Congress • 2021: Legend of Destruction
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David Polonsky is recorded with the occupation visual artist. Recorded as illustrator, artist, writer and docent.
President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, and his wife at a reception on the occasion of the publication of the book "Anne Frank - The Graphic Diary". Sunday, 24 Tevet 5769, December 24, 2017. Photo credit: Mark Neyman / GPO.
Mark Neyman · Mark Neyman / Government Press Office of Israel · Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel
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1973
David Polonsky was born in 1973.
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Awards
• 2004 Ben-Yitzhak Prize of the Israel Museum for Children's Books Illustration, Israel Museum, Jerusalem • 2008 The Excellence Award of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem • 2008 Ben-Yitzhak Prize of the Israel Museum for Children's Books Illustration, Israel Museum, Jerusalem • 2008 The Ophir Prize of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television for artistic direction, for Waltz with Bashir • 2008 Award for Decorations, Cinema Eye Honors, for Waltz with Bashir • 2012 Andersen Prize for the Illustration of Children's Books, International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), Basel, Switzerland.
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- 1.David Polonsky | Authors.
- 2.Frank, Anne. Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. Pantheon. October 2, 2018.
- 3."'You Feel All That Loss in One Image': Anne Frank's Diary Re-imagined as an Edgy Graphic Novel", Haaretz
- 4.Gefen, Shira. The Heart-Shaped Leaf. 28 February 2019. 978-1784382629.
- 5.Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story, Atlantic Books, 1 March 2009,
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