Vladimir Vagin (illustrator), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Russian illustrator
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Place of Birth: Soviet Union
About Vladimir Vagin (illustrator)
- Vladimir Vasil'evich Vagin (born 30 March 1937) is a Russian illustrator of books.
- With the writer Frank Asch he created Here Comes the Cat! (Si?u?da idet kot!), a 32-page children's picture book published by Scholastic Books in 1989.
- It was awarded the Russian National Book Award and was considered the first Russian-American collaboration on a children's book.
- 25th Anniversary Edition of Here Comes the Cat! was reissued in July 2011 by McSweeney's McMullens (bilingual text) OCLC 741310104.
- Vagin moved to the United States in 1990 and currently lives in Vermont.
- He and Asch won the Picture Books Golden Duck Award in 1996 for their collaboration Insects from Outer Space (Scholastic, 1995).
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