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About Virpi Talvitie
- Virpi Talvitie (born 1961, in Ilmajoki) is a Finnish illustrator and graphic artist. Talvitie graduated from high school in 1980 and received a bachelor of art degree in Art and Design in 1989.Talvitie has illustrated magazines and children's books.
- In 2006, she collaborated with Timo Parvela on the book Keinulauta (Seesaw), which won the Junior Finlandia Prize, a prestigious literary prize in Finland.
- She won the WSOY Literature Foundation award in 2010, and the Mikkeli Illustration Triennial Prize in 2011.
- Talvitie has also been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 2006, 2008 and 2012.
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