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Yirmi Pinkus, Illustrator. May 2001 - member of Alternative Comics Group - ACTUS COMICS, which was founded in 1995; 2001 illustrated the daily comic strip in the German Newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" ; 2008 wrote his first illustrated novel ,"Professor Fabrikant's Historical Cabaret", published by Am Oved Publishing House, and won the Sapir Prize for Debut Literature; he went on to write many, many, more illustrated novels.

Education

1988-92 . Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, B.F.A, With Excellence
1994-95 Goethe Institut, Tel Aviv, Studied German
1999-2002 Institut Francais, Tel Aviv, Studied French,
2003-05 Middlesex University, England, M.A
2007-14 Beth Shalom Aleichem, Tel Aviv; Medem, Paris,France, Studied Yiddish,

Teaching

2000 , Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Founder and Head of Illustration Department
1997-2003 Vital - Center of Graphic Design Tel Aviv
1998-2003 Vital - Center of Graphic Design Tel Aviv, Head of Illustration
1998-2000 WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, Mentor, final illustration project
1998-2004 , Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Fundamentals of Visual Communication
2003 , Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Faculty member
2006 Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland, Master Class
2000-11 Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Director of Illustration courses,
2008 HAW University, Hamburg, Germany, Masterclass,
2013 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Comics workshop,

Awards And Prizes

1992 Ben Yosef Award For Design and Illustration, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1994–95, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Scholarship for Excellence
1999 The Israel Advertising Association Award
2000 Final Nominated, The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, San Diego, USA
2004 Prize for Design, Ministry of Education and Culture
2005 Final Nominated, The Ignatz Awards, Bethesda, USA
2009 Scholarship, The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2009 The Sapir Prize for Literature
2010 Levi Eshkol Literary Award
2010 Citation, The Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustration of a Children's Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2013 Final nominated, The Sapir Prize for Literature
2014 Ben-Yitzhak Prize for Children's Books Illustration, Israel Museum, Jerusalem