Asya Kravchenko, Dmitry Mamontov, Masha Zgoda, Nadezhda Suvorova. On the 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 also served as editor of the theater magazine "Stanislavsky." Her first children's story, "Who Will Ride the Kabachok?", was published in 2002. It later evolved into the book "Hello, Horse!", which was a finalist for the national children's literary prize "Zavetnaya Mechta."

In 2017, Samokat published Asya Kravchenko's novella "The Universe. New Version," which won the 2016 Krapivin Prize.

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

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

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

INTERVIEW

While freedom is certainly worth experiencing, running away from home isn't necessary. I had a moment as a child when I got upset with everyone and left home, but I had nowhere else to go. I walked the streets, watched the windows light up, and then returned home. No one at home even noticed I'd left. That was incredibly frustrating, too. But I still remember that feeling—that I left home without thinking about what would happen next. And my characters experience the same thing. Perhaps, to see what good there might be in a house, you need to leave it, to look at your home from the outside.

Papmambook

Born in Moscow in 1982, she decided in her youth to pursue the most challenging endeavor imaginable—becoming an artist. In 2005, she graduated from Polygraph (Moscow State University of Printing Arts, now the Institute of Graphic Arts at Moscow Polytechnic University), where she studied with Boris Diodorov. She is a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, the Magic Saw artists' association, and maintains an open relationship with the world. She began teaching master classes and children's workshops with Samokat back in 2006. She worked as a teacher at the "Flying and Chagall" studio and the IRRI Museum. She taught classes at the Children's University and the Alexandre Dumas Lyceum, as well as the "Together with Mom" ​​summer camp.

She has been designing books since 2004, as well as festival venues and interiors. She can't live long without painting, children's laughter, and walks through museums and forests. 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 received the "Art of the Book," "Image of the Book," and "Book of the Year" awards (along with the "Motley Square" series in the "Children's and Young Adult Books" category). For Nadezhda Suvorova, book art is a universal, expressive language, one of the most captivating ways to understand the world and a gentle refuge from all of life's adversities.

"I get drunk on great texts, and in the best children's illustrations, I look for details that make time stand still, and the air that you can breathe freely, collecting these details in a backpack."