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Roger Duvoisin was born on 28 August, 1900 in Geneva, Switzerland, is an American writer. Discover Roger Duvoisin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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Virgo |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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30 June, 1980 |
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Who Is Roger Duvoisin's Wife?
His wife is Louise Fatio
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Roger Duvoisin Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Roger Duvoisin worth at the age of 79 years old? Roger Duvoisin’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from Switzerland. We have estimated Roger Duvoisin's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Roger Antoine Duvoisin (August 28, 1900 – June 30, 1980) was a Swiss-born American writer and illustrator best known for children's picture books.
Duvoisin was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1900.
He learned to draw early having been encouraged by his father, who was an architect, and his godmother, a well-known painter of enamels.
He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
His first job was designing scenery, making posters, and painting murals.
He also became a manager of an old French pottery plant before becoming involved with textile design, an occupation that eventually brought him to the United States.
He sometimes gave 1904 as his year of birth but he was nearly 80 at his death, born in 1900—the US Library of Congress learned from a publisher, indirectly from his widow.
In 1927, they moved to New York City where he worked on children's books and magazine illustrations.
He became an American citizen in 1938.
He won the Caldecott Medal for White Snow, Bright Snow, written by Alvin Tresselt (D. Lothrop Co., 1947).
The annual American Library Association award recognizes the illustrator of the year's "most distinguished American picture book for children".
He won the 1948 Caldecott Medal for picture books and in 1968 he was a highly commended runner-up for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's illustrators.
Duvoisin both wrote and illustrated a successful series featuring Petunia the goose and Veronica the hippopotamus, inaugurated by Petunia (Alfred A. Knopf, 1950) and Veronica (Knopf, 1961; The Bodley Head, 1961).
Fatio wrote and Duvoisin illustrated The Happy Lion, a picture book published by McGraw-Hill in 1954.
It was her first book and the first of ten Happy Lion books they created together (1954–1980).
Its German-language edition (Der glückliche Löwe) won the inaugural 1956 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.
In 1961, he received an award from the Society of Illustrators.
Their 1965 collaboration Hide and Seek Fog was one of three Caldecott runners-up.
In 1966, he received the Rugers Bi-Centennial award.
His books were published by The Bodley Head Ltd in London, Sydney and Toronto.
Duvoisin's works also include translation and illustration of medieval European folk tales such as The Crocodile in the Tree (1973).
Duvoisin died in June 1980.
Jeanne Blackmore, Duvoisin's granddaughter, is also an author with her first children's book, How Does Sleep Come? published in 2012.
Duvoisin wrote his first book in the U.S.