Vladimir Vasilʹevich Vagin (born 30 March 1937) is a Russian illustrator of books. With the writer Frank Asch he created Here Comes the Cat! (Si︠u︡da idet kot!), a 32-page children's picture book published by Scholastic Books in 1989. It was awarded the Russian National Book Award and was considered the first Russian-American collaboration on a children's book. A 25th Anniversary Edition[clarification needed] of Here Comes the Cat! was reissued in July 2011 by McSweeney's McMullens (bilingual text) OCLC 741310104.[clarification needed] Vagin moved to the United States in 1990 and currently lives in Vermont.[when?] He and Asch won the Picture Books Golden Duck Award in 1996 for their collaboration Insects from Outer Space (Scholastic, 1995).[1]
References
edit- ^ "Golden Duck Nominees List". Locus Index to SF Awards [ speculative fiction ]. Locus Publications. Retrieved 2014-10-16. The 1996 Golden Duck win is Vagin's only entry in the database.
External links
edit- Vladimir Vasilʹevich Vagin at Library of Congress, with 16 library catalogue records
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