Asya Kravchenko, Dmitry Mamontov, Masha Zgoda, Nadezhda Suvorova. On line

Asya Kravchenko is a psychologist, journalist and mother of two beautiful girls. Asya studied psychology at Moscow State University, then spent a year at the Sorbonne. She served as editor of the Stanislavsky theatre magazine. Asya's first children's story, Who Will Ride Kabachke?, was published in 2002. It later grew into the book Hello, Horse!, which made it to the finals of the national children's literary award, Cherished Dream.

And in 2017, Samokat published Asya Kravchenko’s story “The Universe. New Version,” which won the Krapivin Prize in 2016.

Anne Frank Prize (Macedonia) 2017 for the book "Hello, Horse!"

Korney Chukovsky Children's Literature Prize 2020 for the story "Better Fly! Project No. 19".

Finalist of the "Cherished Dream" ("Hello, Horse!") and "Kniguru" ("Migratory Children", "Girls from a Good Family") awards

INTERVIEW

The experience of freedom is certainly necessary, but running away from home is not at all necessary. I had an episode in my childhood when I was offended by everyone and left home, but I had nowhere to go. I walked along the streets, watched the windows light up, and then returned home. And at home, no one even noticed that I was leaving. And that was also very offensive. But I still remember that feeling - that I left home without thinking about what would happen next. And my characters experience the same thing. Probably, in order to see what good can be in this house, you need to leave it, look at your home from the outside.

Papmambook

Born in Moscow in 1982. In her youth, she decided to take on the most difficult thing imaginable - to become an artist. In 2005, she graduated from Polygraph (MGUP, now IGRIK of the Moscow Polytechnic University), where she studied with Boris Diodorov. She is a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, the Magic Saw artists' community, and has open relationships with the world. With Samokat, back in 2006, she began conducting master classes and children's classes. She worked as a teacher at the Letal i Shagal studio, the IRRI museum. She taught classes at the Children's University and the Alexandre Dumas Lyceum, and the summer camp of the Vmeste s Mama project.

She has been designing books since 2004, as well as festival areas, and drawing for interiors. She cannot do without painting, children's laughter, and walks through museums and forests for long. She has illustrated the Moscow Rally, Barbra Lindgren, Sergey Sedov, Valentina Degtyareva, Sergey Georgiev, Maria Boteva, Korney Chukovsky, and educational books. Her illustrations have been published in three countries and have been awarded the Art of the Book, Image of the Book, and Book of the Year diplomas (along with the Motley Square series in the Children's and Youth Books category). For Nadezhda Suvorova, book art is a universal expressive language, one of the most fascinating ways of learning about the world, and a soft refuge from all of life's adversities.

“I get drunk from great texts, and in the best illustrations for children I look for details that make time stop, and the air that you can breathe freely, collecting these details in a backpack.”