Roger Mello
Illustration — Roger Mello at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2014 Roger Mello (born 20 November 1965) is a Brazilian children's book illustrator. He was the first illustrator from Latin America to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award, which he did in 2010.
Roger Mello
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- Born
- 1965 · Brasília.
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Occupation
- writer · illustrator · playwright
- Honours
- Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration
- Languages
- Portuguese
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Illustration — Roger Mello at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2014 Roger Mello (born 20 November 1965) is a Brazilian children's book illustrator. He was the first illustrator from Latin America to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award, which he did in 2010.
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Roger Mello is recorded as having received Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration.
Roger Mello at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2014.
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1965
Roger Mello was born in 1965 at Brasília.
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• (with Daniel Hahn) Charcoal Boys (Elsewhere Editions, 2019) • (with Daniel Hahn) You can't be too careful! (Elsewhere Editions, 2017) • (with Cao Wenxuan, tr. Chloe Garcia Roberts) Feather (Archipelago Books, 2017) • Meninos do mangue (Companhia das Letrinhas, 2012)
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• 2002 Espace-Enfants • 2002 Prêmio Jabuti • 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award
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The best book for children on 2016 - Inês, written by Roger Mello and Mariana Massarani – what says the critics?, ALED, 2019
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