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Philip Stanton (born 1962) is an American artist and author based in Barcelona, Spain, director of the design group Stanton Studio, whose works include multimedia design projects and urban installations. He is also the author and illustrator of children's books published in Europe and the United States.
Since 1988 Stanton has participated in more than 60 solo and group exhibitions and has collaborated with newspapers and magazines (his covers for the cultural section of Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia were awarded prizes by the ADGFAD and included in the 1992 European Illustration/Illustration Now annual), as well as with a number of Spanish and international companies.
His work has received a number of design and illustration awards in Spain including: 12 Laus awards, the Apel.les Mestres prize for children's literature [1] and the Junceda illustration prize from the Catalan professional illustrator's association APIC. Internationally his work has won awards or been included for publication in the Cresta Awards, the British Design and Art Direction Annual, and the Type Directors Club annual.
Stanton is also head of the postgraduate illustration program and professor of illustration at the EINA Art & Design School in Barcelona. [2]
He is the author of a number of urban installations including: Palau Robert (1997–98), l'Aquàrium de Barcelona (1998), the inauguration ceremony of the European cup final (1999) in Barcelona, the set design of the internacional concert tour "Serrat-Tarrés" of Joan Manuel Serrat (2000), The construction wall during the building of the Agbar tower of architect Jean Nouvel (2001), the decoration of the Sagrada Família subway station (2002), the facade of PG45 (2006) and the parade floats of the holiday parade “Cabalgata de reyes” (2007) of the Barcelona city government.
As an illustrator of books for children and adults he has published more than 40 titles including collaborations with authors Emili Teixidor, Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Ray Bradbury, Lee Bennett Hopkins, J. Patrick Lewis, Naguib Mahfouz, Juan Carlos Martín Ramos, Tomàs Garcés and Jorge Zentner. He is the author and illustrator of “La Gata Misha”, a series of children's books published in Spain by Grupo SM.
His work has been published and translated into English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Catalan, and Italian.
Gustavo Alfredo Jiménez de Cisneros y Rendiles was a Venezuelan businessman and Chairman of Grupo Cisneros.
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Spanish comics are the comics of Spain. Comics in Spain are usually called historietas or cómics, with tebeos primarily denoting the magazines containing the medium. Tebeo is a phonetic adaptation of TBO, a long-running (1917–1983) Spanish comic magazine, and sounds like "te veo".
The Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original unpublished novel written in Spanish. It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta.
Pilar Rahola i Martínez is a Spanish journalist, writer, and former politician and MP.
Lorenzo Manuel Silva Amador is a Spanish award-winning writer. After earning a law degree at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002.
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Carlos Rodrigues Gesualdi is an Argentinean writer, teacher, lecturer and translator living in Germany, author of children’s novels and of stories published in various countries. His novel "Raros Peinados" is a classic in Argentina.
José Sanchis Grau was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like Pumby (1954) and Robín Robot (1972).
Federico Martínez Roda is a professor of history at the Valencia Catholic University.
Ana Juan is a Spanish artist, illustrator and painter.
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Stolen Children is a two-part Spanish television miniseries inspired by historical deeds that re-creates the history of two youngsters who they are forced to confront their pregnancy alone in the francoist period of the Spain of 1970. After nine months of gestation, both give birth in the same hospital, although in different circumstances, and are separated from their babies after birth.
Ediciones B is a Spanish publisher, which currently operates as a division of Penguin Random House. Ediciones B is headquartered in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain; with branches throughout Latin America. It was established in 1986, but has its origins in El Gato Negro (1910) and Editorial Bruguera (1940).
Rosa Cobo Bedía is a Spanish feminist, writer, and professor of sociology of gender at the University of A Coruña. She is also the director of the Center for Gender Studies and Feminists at the same university. Her main line of research is feminist theory and the sociology of gender.
Santiago Muñoz Machado is a Spanish jurist and academic, director of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language since 10 January 2019. As a jurist, he specialized in administrative and constitutional rights. He is also a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and editor of the Diccionario del español jurídico and the Diccionario panhispánico del español jurídico.
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