Renata Fuciková

Renata Fuciková was born in 1964 inPrague, Czech Republic. She graduated in illustration and graphic design from the Academy ofArts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Her primary field of expertise is book illustration. She has illustrated, among others, the fairy tales of Brothers Grimm, H.C. Andersen and Oscar Wilde, the ethnic fairy tales of China, Arabia and the ancient Celts and The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. She has produced various authored books, such as Vypráníze Starého zákona (Stories from the Old Testament, 1996), Vyprávníz Nového zákona (Stories from the New Testament, 1997), Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (2006) and Jan Amos Komenský (2008), in which her dramatic literary-visual form was put in the service of narrating the life stories of some of the key figures of Czech and world history. So far her opus magnum, the voluminous Historie Evropy (The History of Europe, 2011) traces the chain of crucial events in European history in the form of a very evocative word/image combinations. Her latest project is the comic-book biography of Antonín Dvorák (2012).