Val Biro (1921–2014)
Forfatter af Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
Om forfatteren
Val was born Balint Stephen Biro, in the city of Budapest, in Hungary, on the 6th October 1921. He attended a small primary school till he was eleven, when he entered a large school of seven hundred pupils run by the monks of the Cistercian order. It was one of the three great monastic schools of vis mere Hungary. The politics of the mid thirties, dominated by the rise of Nazism and Fascism slowly came to increasingly influence the people of Hungary and Val's father, recognizing what was happening, arranged in 1939, for his eighteen year old son to go to London to study art. Val never saw his father again. Val hero worshipped his father who sadly died in 1944 only two days before the Gestapo called to arrest him as a political suspect. Val left for England in July 1939, and stayed at Polperro with the McCloy family whose son had spent the previous summer with the Biro's in Budapest. Val was required to register in September as an 'Enemy Alien' with the police. Val Biro lives in West Sussex with his wife. He was born in Hungary and trained as an artist in Budapest before coming to London to study at the Central School. He worked in publishing before coming a freelance illustrator and starting this popular series. Val designed 30 book cover illustrations for Nigel Tranter's, 'Scotlands Storyteller', books between 1951 and 1980. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Serier
Værker af Val Biro
The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs (Aesop's Fables) (2002) 17 eksemplarer
The Fox and the Crow 6 eksemplarer
Tales from Hans Andersen: "Wild Swans", "Thumbelina", "Little Tin Soldier" and "Flying Trunk" Bks. 5-8 (Ginn reading) (1985) 4 eksemplarer
The Wild Wood: The Wind in the Willows 3 eksemplarer
The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg 3 eksemplarer
Dan the Dunce; Tales from Hans Andersen 1-4 2 eksemplarer
vonkie vir altyd 2 eksemplarer
Aesop's Fables Easy Readers 6 Books Collection Set By Val Biro (The Fox and the Stork, The Monkey and the Fishermen,… (2023) 2 eksemplarer
The Boy Who Cried Wolf 1 eksemplar
the wind in the willows 1 eksemplar
The Sick Lion - Fables from Aesop 13-18 1 eksemplar
Iorwerth a'r deinosôr 1 eksemplar
The Donkey and the Lapdog 1 eksemplar
Up and Down 1 eksemplar
The Fox and the Crow, Fables from Aesop 1-6 1 eksemplar
The Donkey in the Lion's Den 1 eksemplar
The Sick Lion 1 eksemplar
The Little Tin Soldier 1 eksemplar
The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Jungle Town Tales — Illustrator — 3 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Biro, Balint Stephen (birth)
- Fødselsdato
- 1921-10-06
- Dødsdag
- 2014-07-04
- Køn
- male
- Fødested
- Budapest, Hungary
- Bopæl
- Bosham, West Sussex, England, UK
- Uddannelse
- Jaschnik School of Art, Budapest
Central School of Arts and Crafts, London - Erhverv
- children's book author
illustrator
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- Værker
- 120
- Also by
- 34
- Medlemmer
- 1,029
- Popularitet
- #25,033
- Vurdering
- 4.0
- Anmeldelser
- 5
- ISBN
- 296
- Sprog
- 7
- Udvalgt
- 2