Lila Prap


Lilijana Praprotnik Zupančič, known by the pen name Lila Prap, is a Slovene illustrator and writer. She is best known for her humorous children's picture books, published both in her native Slovenia and abroad.

Life and work

Lila Prap was born in Celje in 1955. She studied architecture at the University of Ljubljana and worked as an architect before deciding to devote herself to graphic design and illustration.
Many of her books have been translated and published in France, Germany, Japan, the United States, China, and elsewhere.

Adaptations

s, based on her illustrations, have been televised on Japan's TV.

Awards

In 2001, her illustrations in Little Creatures and Animal Lullabies won her the Levstik Award in native Slovenia.
In 2011, she won the Prešeren Foundation Award for exhibitions of her illustrations she held in Celje and Ljubljana.

Selected works

  • 2012 Why Do Cats
  • 2011 Why Do Bugs?
  • 2010 Why Do Dogs?
  • 2009 Dinasaurs?!''
  • 2008 Where Do Dreams Go
  • 2007 My Daddy
  • 2005 1001 Fairy Tales
  • 2004 Animals International Dictionary
  • 2002 Animal Alphabet
  • 2002 Why?
  • 2002 Animal Lullabies
  • 2002 Little Creatures
  • 1999 True Fairy Tales
  • 1996 ''That is...''