AUKSO ŽUVYS c atalog 2019
PICTURE BOOKS | COMICS | ILLUSTR ATED STORIES |
SIBIRO HAIKU / SIBERIAN HAIKU By Jurga Vilė and Lina Itagaki Illustrated by Lina Itagaki
Lithuanian edition ISBN 978-609-8120-318 Published: 2017, 2018 Publisher: Aukso žuvys Hardcover / 240 pp / 17 x 23 cm Age 8+ FRENCH, ITALIAN AND LATVIAN RIGHTS SOLD
This hybrid graphic novel tells us a story of a Lithuanian boy called Algiukas who in 1941 together with his family is deported to Siberia. His aunt Petronella brings along a book of the Japanese haiku poems. In exile she inspires the deportees not to succumb to the despair and to see the beautiful side of life.
Main prize in Book Art contest 2017 Best book of the Year by IBBY Lithuania 2017 Best Illustrations for a Children’s Book by IBBY Lithuania 2017 2017 White Raven The Aloysius Petrikas Literary Prize for Children’s Book of the Year 2018 Children’s Book of the Year 2018 (Lithuania)
All of us deportees loved our homeland. Tiotia Margarita loved everyone. I loved Miss Violeta and Veronica. Veronica loved me. Aunt Petronella loved Japan. Julius loved Dalia. Dalia loved Julius. Lyova, Vova and Zhora were secretly in love with Dalia, but she didn‘ t love them. Mama loved Dad. And us. Mrs. Klimas loved the sea. Mrs. Bobausis loved God. Chlebnik and Kartoshnik didn‘wt...love o anyone. Although you never kdnly. Miss Violeta loved life, ma
song. Spring came and everyone‘s hearts broke out into
ible Along with the spring rains, something terr and beautiful happened.
SUKEISTAS / Changeling By Kotryna Zylė Illustrated and designed by Kotryna Zylė
Lithuanian edition ISBN 978-609-8120-39-4 Published: 2019 February Publisher: Aukso žuvys Softcover / 232 pp / 15 x 21,5 cm Age 13+
Changeling is an anarchic novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in its pagan and post-soviet history. Kotryna Zylė is one of the most original voices in contemporary Lithuanian children‘s literature. Mixing mythology and contemporary culture, her books have won accolades for their fresh and innovative approach.
DIDŽIOJI BŪTYBIŲ KNYGA / THE BIG BOOK OF CREATURES By Kotryna Zylė Illustrated by Kotryna Zylė
Lithuanian edition ISBN 978-609-8120-22-6 Published: 2016, 2017 Publisher: Aukso žuvys Hardcover / 80 pp / 24 x 30 cm Age 7+
The Big Book of Creatures by Kotryna Zylė is a special encyclopedia for children who admire cool stories and tales. In this book you will find not only all of the 26 main Baltic mythological creatures and gods, their illustrations and descriptions, but also some fun proof showing that all these creatures exist in our times.
Main prize in Book Art contest 2016 2016 White Raven
KAUKAS GUGIS IR KERŲ KARAS / BROWNIE GUGIS AND THE WAR OF MAGIC
Lithuanian edition ISBN 978-609-8120-301 Published: 2017 November Publisher: Aukso žuvys Hardcover / 320 pp / 14 x 21 cm Age 9+
By Justinas Žilinskas Illustrated by Gediminas Skyrius
Magic fantasy story for children who love mythological creature’s world. In this book small brownies meet smart devils, who have something special. What are they fight for? What kind of adventures they experience? This is funny and involving story about the choice.
Best book for teenagers by IBBY Lithuania 2017
MANO VILNIUS MANO / MY VILNIUS, MINE By Justinas Žilinskas Illustrated by Birutė Zokaitytė
Lithuanian edition ISBN 978-609-8120-11-0 Published: 2015 September Publisher: Aukso žuvys Softcover / 288 pp / 14 x 21 cm Age 10+
This story is about the unusual journey of two friends, Aistė and Simas who are travelling through time in the city of Vilnius together with a mysterious Guide. The author invites us to have adventures, to travel through time, to delve into the secrets of a magical city and the capital of Lithuania – Vilnius. Illustrated with the drawings by a graphic artist Birutė Zokaitytė, which are based on the historical aspects of Vilnius, the book offers a time-travel experience through the city’s past. The illustrations are like the unsent love letters or postcards for the artist’s home town. The book is supplemented with the city comics drawn by the young Lithuanian artist Povilas Jankūnas. Additionally, book contains four adventurous tours of Vilnius city for the teenagers.
Second Place, 3rd Book Art Triennial 2015 2015 White Raven Best illustrations of the Year by IBBY Lithuania 2015
METAI / THE SEASONS Illustrated by Lina Dūdaitė
Lithuanian edition Coming soon! 2019 December Publisher: Aukso žuvys Leporello / 32 pp / 17 x 23 cm Age 5+
A silent book made in a leporello form and drawn by the famous Lithuanian illustrator Lina Dūdaitė is about the changing seasons and the main works and activities of people in an ancient Lithuania. This book is a visual interpretation of a poem called “The Seasons”, written by the Lithuanian poet and a classicist Kristijonas Donelaitis.
Coming soon!
non fic tion | documentary | comics | fic tion | OR AL HISTORY
Lituanic a. nematoma pusė / THE FAR SIDE OF LITUANIC A
Lithuanian edition ISBN: 978-609-8120-40-0 Published: 2019 February Publisher: Aukso žuvys Hardcover / 456 pp / 14 x 21 cm
By Gražina Sviderskytė
The book is based on a well-received dissertation of the renowned Lithuanian journalist and a historian Dr. Gražina Sviderskytė. This is the first complex investigation into the notorious story about a transatlantic flight of the American pilots of Lithuanian descent Stephen Darius and Stanley Girch-Girėnas who flew across the Atlantic Ocean from New York towards Kaunas and met their death as their airplane Lituanica crashed in a forest near Soldin, Northeast Germany (now – Mysliborz, Poland) on July 15th–17th, 1933. Data was collected from more than 20 archives in Lithuania, Germany, and the United States of America.
Irena Veisaitė. GY VENIMAS TURĖTŲ BŪTI SK AIDRUS / Irena Veisaitė. Life should be transparent
Lithuanian edition ISBN 978-609-8120-41-7 Published: 2016, 2019 Publisher: Aukso žuvys Softcover / 396 pp / 14 x 21 cm
By Aurimas Švedas
In this interview type of a book a personal history of Irena Veisaitė (a German scholar, a theatre critic, a public intellectual) enables us to take a look at the four periods of the 20th century from the perspective of an inhabitant of Lithuania and Central Europe. These are: the Interwar period, World War II (a prelude to which for the people of the Baltic countries was the first Soviet occupation) and the horrific world of the Third Reich forged by the Nazis. The third period includes the Second Soviet Occupation, the life in the Soviet Union with a smothered spiritual freedom as its consequence, and the collapse of the state. The fourth is the revival of a Lithuanian Independence and its consolidation at the junction of the millennium.
Best Documentary Book of the Year 2018 (Lithuania)
K AR ALIENĖS BONOS VIRTUVĖ / THE KITCHEN OF QUEEN BONA
Lithuanian edition ISBN: 978-609-8120-37-0 Published: 2018 October Publisher: Aukso žuvys Hardcover / 220 pp / 18 x 26 cm
By Jolita Bernotienė and Rasa Leonavičiūtė
This is the book about Bona Sforza who was an outstanding personality of the 16th century Lithuania and Poland: a ruler, a leader, a politician, a diplomat, a wife and a mother. Princess of the Duchy of Milan, a heir of the Aragonese rulers of Naples brought many novelties to Lithuania, starting with a fork, Renaissance dances and ending with the agricultural reforms. This book is a historical, an educational and a gastronomic manual of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during Renaissance times, which presents the life and work of Bona Sforza in a popular manner. Bona has changed the habits of nutrition of our ancestors. When she arrived to her husband’s Sigismund’s I the Old country, she has brought her own cooks together with her. Lithuanian cuisine received the impact of the Italian culinary precisely during the reign of Bona.
We Thought We’d Be Back Soon: 18 stories of refugees 1940-1944
English edition ISBN 978-609-8120-27-1 Published: 2017 July Publisher: Aukso žuvys Softcover / 384 pp / 14 x 21 cm
Selected and edited by: Dalia Cidzikaitė, Laima Petrauskas VanderStoep, Dalia Stakė Anysas
This book is an impressive collection of the reminiscences about the emigration by Lithuanians who fled to the West during World War II. The conversations with the emigres that are central to the book bring a new knowledge about the wartime reality and provide an insight into the meanings of a home and a place, and into the social impact of the geopolitical upheaval when the state’s sovereignty is annihilated.
Diploma in Book Art contest 2017
K ai Lietuva valdė pasaulį / When Lithuania Ruled the World
Bilingual edition ISBN 978-609-8120-26-4 Published: 2017 January Publisher: Aukso žuvys Softcover / 410 pp / 17 x 24 cm
By Kęstutis Nakas
A four-part play-cycle dealing with the Lithuanian history. Provocative, romantic, spiritual and sometimes ludicrous. The play combines a variety of genres, such as: farce, tragedy, grotesque, magic realism and “pseudo-classicism” in a non-traditional way. The action takes place during the 13th through the 15th centuries with the occasional leaps into the 20th century. It is abound with the slang, pop culture elements, humor and anachronisms.
Prize in Book Art contest 2017
DR. KVADRATAS. GREIMAS IR JO SEMIOTIKA / DR. SQUARE. GREIMAS AND HIS SEMIOTICS
Lithuanian edition ISBN 978-609-8120-29-5 Published: 2017 October Publisher: Aukso žuvys Softcover / 164 pp / 17 x 24 cm
By Miglė Anušauskaitė
The comic book “Dr. Square. Greimas and his semiotics” consists of a graphic biography of the well-known Lithuanian-French semiotician Algirdas Julius Greimas, some interpretations and a semiotic theory, presented in a fun and an engaging way. Miglė Anušauskaitė is a Lithuanian cartoonist and a sociolinguist. She often combines academic interests with the artistic expressions.
Prize in Book Art contest 2017 Book of the Year 2017 by 15MIN.LT
10 LITŲ / 10 LITAS By Miglė Anušauskaitė and Gerda Jord
Lithuanian edition ISBN 978-609-8120-09-7 Published: 2015 December Publisher: Aukso žuvys Softcover / 176 pp / 18 x 26 cm
This is a graphic memoir of two famous Lithuanian aviators – Darius and Girėnas. These two brave men flew over the Atlantic Ocean in 1935 but prior to meeting in Chicago, they both had big dreams about the aviation and both led very adventurous lifes. Miglė Anušauskaitė is a Lithuanian cartoonist and a sociolinguist. Gerda Jord is also a Lithuanian cartoonist, a blogger and an animator.
Lithuania’s Patriots‘ award 2015
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