Louise Fatio
Louise Emma Fatio Duvoisin (August 18, 1904 – July 26, 1993) was a Swiss-born American writer of children's books. Many were created in collaboration with her husband Roger Duvoisin, a Swiss-born illustrator, and she is known best for their picture book series Happy Lion. The Happy Lion (1954), first in the series, won the inaugural, 1956 Script error: No such module "Lang". in its German-language translation (Script error: No such module "Lang".).[1][2]
Background
Fatio was born August 18, 1904, in Lausanne, Switzerland,[3] and educated in Geneva.[1] She emigrated to the United States in 1925 and became a naturalized citizen in 1938.[3]
Fatio's earliest work in the U.S. Library of Congress catalog is The Christmas forest, a 48-page book illustrated by Duvoisin, with a 1950 copyright date.[4] It was published by Aladdin Paperbacks no earlier than 1967, perhaps earlier in hardcover. Her first book published was The Happy Lion in 1954.[1]
A resident of Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey and then Chester Township, New Jersey, Fatio died on July 26, 1993, at the age of 89 at a nursing home in Somerset, New Jersey.[5]
References
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- ↑ "(Preisjahr=1956, all listings)". Datenbanksuche (database search). Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur (jugendliteratur.org). Retrieved 2013-07-16. For general information select "Infos zum Preis" or "English key facts".
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- ↑ "The Christmas forest". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ↑ "Louise Fatio Duvoisin, children's book author", Courier News, July 28, 1993. Accessed April 8, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Louise Emma Fatio Duvoisin, 89, an award-winning author of children's books and stories, died Monday (July 26, 1993) at King James Convalescent Center in the Somerset section of Franklin.... She lived in Peapack-Gladstone before moving to Chester."
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External links
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- Louise Fatio in the German National Library (DNB)
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