Nikolai el gimnasta y un ladrón muy plasta

Nikolai el gimnasta y un ladrón muy plasta

Author: Klarisa Jovanović
Title: Nikolai el gimnasta y un ladrón muy plasta
Original title: Telovadec Nikolaj prežene tolovaja
Illustration: Štefan Turk
Translation: Juan Kruz Igerabide, Barbara Pregelj
Technical details: 235 x 235 x 10mm, 40 pages
ISBN: 9789617122169
Price: 15,00 €

The book is designed in accordance with the criteria for designing materials for readers with dyslexia.

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Description

The picture book tells the story of a gymnast who detects a thief while doing his exercises in the park. The scene makes him so angry that he decides to catch him. The thief steals a baby’s rattle and, on another occasion, a magnifying glass from an old lady who visits the park. The thief’s third criminal attempt in a row consists in trying to steal the tablecloth which a poor man puts on his table to embellish it on Sundays. This time, Nikolai will catch him and recuperate all the stolen items. The book is written in verse, in a humorous and very skillful way. Even if posing the ethical question of whether stealing is acceptable or not, it does it without moralizing.

About the authors

Klarisa Jovanović is professor of French and a comparative literature graduate. She translates mainly from Greek, but also from Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Italian and French. She has published three books of poetry. In 2007, she published the poem Zgiban prek Mure, which was nominated for the best debut next year. Her poem Izgnana was nominated for Veronikina nagrada, the literary award given to the year’s best collection of poems. She is also an interpreter of poems set to music and folk songs.

Štefan Turk graduated in art history from the University of Trieste and studied painting with the renowned Trieste painter and educator prof. Nino Perizi. He is a painter, an illustrator and a fine arts teacher. He works as a co-mentor in various children artists’ colonies and runs art workshops for children. He regularly publishes his illustrations in the magazine Seagull and has collaborated with Ciciban and Mavrica.

Juan Kruz Igerabide Sarasola is a poet, an author of numerous stories for children and teenagers and one of the most novel authors who write in Basque nowadays. In 2018 he received the National Prize for Children’s and Young Adults Literature, the most prestigious Spanish award in its field.

Barbara Pregelj is a translator, editor, doctor of Literary Sciences and Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Nova Gorica. She translated the works of Las Casas, Puerto, Unamuno, Fuentes, Arenas, Pitol, Vargas Llosa, Lorca, Debeljak, Pahor, Svetina, Putrle, Igerabide, Landa, Zubizarreta. In collaboration with Peter Svetina, she translated from Spanish the baroque poetry of Francisco de Queveda and sister Juana Inés de la Cruz.