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Keinulauta, Bicycling to the Moon Finlandia Junior Literary Prize |
Virpi Talvitie (born 1961, in Ilmajoki) is a Finnish illustrator and graphic artist.
Talvitie graduated from high school in 1980 and received a bachelor of art degree in Art and Design in 1989.
Talvitie has illustrated magazines and children's books. In 2006, she collaborated with Timo Parvela on the book Keinulauta (Seesaw), which won the Junior Finlandia Prize, a prestigious literary prize in Finland. She won the WSOY Literature Foundation award in 2010, and the Mikkeli Illustration Triennial Prize in 2011. Talvitie has also been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 2006, 2008 and 2012.
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