Isol

Isol (Marisol Misenta) is an illustrator, author of children's books, and singer. She was born in 1972, in Buenos Aires, where she currently lives.She studied at the Escuela Nacional “Rogelio Yrurtia” to become a Fine Arts teacher, and spent a few years studying art at the University of Buenos Aires, a career she finally abandoned to fully devote herself to work as an illustrator and author of children's books, a natural synthesis of her taste for comics, literature and visual arts.

Her first book, "Vida de perros" ("A dog’s life") was published in 1997, following a Mention of Honour at the contest A la orilla del Viento, organized by FCE publishers (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico). From that moment on she has continued to publish books as an integral author, and has in turn illustrated texts written by other authors, such as Jorge Luján, Graciela Montes and Paul Auster.

Her personal style for telling stories by means of drawings (candid, yet sometimes ironic) has allowed her the good fortune of being published in Mexico, Spain, USA, France, Korea, Switzerland and Argentina.

From 2000 to 2005 she published a weekly illustration each Sunday in the Clarín (newspaper) Sunday magazine, doubtlessly the most widely read paper in Argentina. Her section in the paper involved illustrations of well-known tales for children and young people by established authors. She has also worked for "Página/12" newspaper, "Para ti" and "Noticias" magazines, among many others.

She has currently focused completely on children's picture-books, though she also does some graphic works and comics from time to time, as special projects, such as the book "Consecuencias", a project set up by Casa de América, Spain, in 2000, and the book "Under the Spell of the Moon", for Groundwood Books in 2004.

Among other projects, she took part in the BIB ‘99 Workshop for illustrators, organized by UNESCO in Slovakia, and has received the Golden Apple 2003 Award for her illustrations to the book "Tic Tac".

Her books "El Globo" ("The Balloon") and "El cuento de Navidad de Auggie Wren" ("Auggie Wren's Christmas Story") have been selected to be part of the White Ravens list 2003, and 2004, the latter involving a Special Mention.

As a 2006 finalist of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, she was recognised as one of the five best illustrators in the world.

inging career

As a singer, she was the vocalist of the band Entre Ríos (band) from 2000 to 2005, with whom she made three records which were published by Indice Virgen (Argentina), Elefant records (Spain and Japan), Darla Records (USA) and Zafra (Mexico). Besides this, she has a Baroque Chamber Music Ensemble called The Excuse since 2002. In 2004 she was the soloist singer in the play called Nocau, by Krapp dance group, in the Experimental Center of Contemporary Music from the Colon Theather (Buenos Aires) with music of José Halac. In 2006 she began her collaboration as a singer with the band Alsace Lorraine, started in Chicago in 2000 by Paul Francke. She sang and co-wrote 6 songs on their album "Dark One", to be published by [http://www.darla.com/comingSoon Darla Records] , USA.

External links

* [http://www.isol-isol.com.ar Isol Web]
* [http://www.forodeilustradores.com Argentinian Illustrators]
* [http://www.criticasmagazine.com/article/CA6384012.html Críticas magazine, author profile]
* [http://www.amazon.com/s/?search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=isol Isol books in Amazon.com]