Kasya Denisevich
As long as Kasya can remember, she always had her nose stuck in a book. First as a gloomy schoolgirl with huge eyeglasses (her earliest nickname was “little owl”), then as an aspiring academic in Philology (wearing the same glasses), then as a translator from Italian into Russian, then as a magazine editor (that’s when she got a fancier pair of glasses). At some point Kasya packed some of her books and moved from Moscow, where she was born and raised, to Barcelona. And her professional career took a sharp turn from reading and studying books to writing and illustrating them. She studied illustration at the Escola Massana in Barcelona and at MiMaster in Milan. Artwork from Kasya’s picture book Neighbors was selected for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrator’s Exhibition in 2017. Her illustrations from another project, Carmen and Emilio, were shortlisted for Ilustrarte 2018 and the same year was awarded Second Prize at CICLA Exhibition in Shanghai. The YA novel Three Quarters by Anna Krasilshchik, illustrated by Kasya, was on the Top List of the 2016 Non-Fiction Book Fair in Moscow.
Her book Neighbors, a poignant story about a little girl's inner experience when her family moves into a new building, was published by Chronicle Books in 2020.
Kasya spends her winters in Barcelona and summers in Moscow, mostly with her nose stuck in a book.
Portfolio
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