Faiquè
Ruth Vilar · Illustrations by Arnal Ballester

Pages: 32
Target: 10+
First edition: 2009
Size: 29,0 x 24,0 cm

Rights sold: Italian, French

SANT JOAN DE DÉU HOSPITAL AWARD 2009

Faiquè is a special postman in a very special and fun world. He wears one shoe, two pairs of glasses, three pocket watches and carries four leather sacks in which he has five wads of postcards, six bundles of letters, seven telegrams and eight urgent packages. A very special album in which the names and the unreality are very ordinary.

About the authors
Ruth Vilar (Zaragoza, 1978) is an actress and writer: her job is composing stories, on paper or on the stage. With the company Cos de Lletra she takes these untruthful truths everywhere.

Arnal Ballester, (Barcelona, 1955), is an illustrator and teacher of Illustration at the Massana School in Barcelona and the School of Applied Arts and Crafts. With a degree in History from the UAB, he began his career as a graphic humourist, but he is particularly known as an illustrator of children's books and albums. He has published over 50 illustrated titles, books aimed at showing children contemporary art, among others. For the former he won the Children's Book Fair-UNICEF Illustrators of the Year Award (1994), the Serra d'Or Critics' Prize (1995) and the Ministry of Culture's National Prize for the best illustrations in children's and young people's books (1993).