Aco Mavec (8 December 1929 – 17 August 1982) was a Slovene

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

, best known for his illustrations of children's books and

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. He won the

Levstik Award The Levstik Award () is a literary award in Slovenia awarded for achievements in children's literature. It has been bestowed since 1949 by the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House, making it the first literary award established by a Slovene publishin ...

for his illustrations of

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...

's ''

Treasure Island ''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure a ...

'' (''Otok zakladov'') in 1966.

Selected illustrated works

* ''Hotel sem prijeti sonce'' (I Wanted to Touch the Sun), written by

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, 1981 * ''Uganke'' (Riddles), written by Helena Bizjak, 1980 * ''Stopinje po zraku in kako sta jih odkrila Naočnik in Očalnik, mojstra med detektivi'' (Footprints in the Air and How They Were Discovered by Specs and Goggles, Master Detectives), written by

Leopold Suhodolčan Leopold Suhodolčan (10 August 1928 – 8 February 1980) was a Slovene writer, best known for his juvenile fiction. Together with Stanko Kotnik he was one of the conceptors of the ''Reading Badge of Slovenia'' competition that still runs today ...

, 1977 * ''Na večerji s krokodilom: nove detektivske mojstrovine Naočnika in Očalnika'' (Dinner With the Crocodile, the New Detective Adventures of Specs and Goggles, written by

, 1976 * ''Naočnik in očalnik, mojstra med detektivi'' (Specs and Goggles, Master Detectives), written by

, 1973 * ''Potopljeni mesec'' (The Sunken Moon), written by Janez Juvan, 1965

References

Slovenian male painters Slovenian children's book illustrators 20th-century Slovenian illustrators Slovenian cartoonists Slovenian caricaturists Slovenian comics artists 1929 births 1982 deaths Levstik Award laureates University of Ljubljana alumni 20th-century Slovenian painters 20th-century Slovenian male artists {{slovenia-artist-stub