Mr Ben, Mou and the Garbage

Sofia Zarampouka writes and illustrates children’s books. She studied painting and theatre in Greece. She studied in the US with a full scholarship, graphic arts and illustration at the universities Howard and American in Washington, Radcliffe (Publishing Procedures) in Boston and Syracuse in New York. When she returned to Greece she took charge of production at Lycabettus Publishing. She taught print publishing aesthetics at the Athens Technological Institute and designed sets and costumes for the Theatre of Art. Her first children’s book, IN THE FOREST, was published by Nana Kallianesi of Kedros Publishers in 1975; it talks about dictatorship and attempts to explain the word and its meaning to children. Since then she works exclusively on children’s books. Her books have been published in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, US (Getty museum editions), China, Japan, Germany and Hungary. Her original artwork has been exhibited in many personal and group exhibitions in Greece and all over the world. Many of them belong now to private collections and museums. She has been awarded for a competition for the Christmas cover of Washington Post, her book LYSISTRATA at the Leipzig Book Fair and for her life’s work by the Athens Academy.