| Willy
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| Nationality - Hungarian |
Profession - Illustrator |
| Date of birth - 24 Aug 1882
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Date of death - 1955 |
| Place of birth
- Szeged : Hungary |
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Born William Andrew Pogany in Hungary in 1882.
Willy, as he prefered to be called, attended the University of Budapest for a year and was a pupil at art school in Budapest before going away to study in Munich and Paris.
After Paris Willy spent 10 years in London where he established himself as a premier illustrator of books.
His success as a book illustrator began in England with The Adventures of a Dodo and with The Hungarian Fairy Book compiled by his brother, Nandor Pogany. Since then he has illustrated more than 150 volumes, of which Padraic Colum's series of classic tales retold is well known to junior readers.
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| He has been awarded gold medals at Budapest, Leipzig, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition. The New York Society of Architects gave him a silver medal. |
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