Gregoire Solotareff

Gregoire Solotareff is an author and French illustrator born with Alexandria in 1953.

Gregoire Solotareff is the son of a doctor of extraction Lebanon ease and the Russian illustrator of origin Olga Lecaye, born Solotareff. They leave in 1956 the Egypt for Lebanon. They settle then in France under the name of Lecaye. Gregoire Solotareff made of the studies of medicine and in fact his trade, but wishes to draw.

It is starting from 1985 that, under the impulse of Alain Saux, it will start to publish albums for the young children, initiated by the series Théo and Balthazar (1985-1988), inspired of the drawings of Jean de Brunhoff. The series Bébé Bear succeeds to him (1990-1991). Its stories put in scene complex problems: difficulty in growing, assertion of oneself, desires contradictory: call never again me my small rabbit (1987); Spitz (1989); the Small green Hood (1989); One day, a wolf (1994)… Its drawings are characterized by flat tints of pure color, sometimes modelled with the brush, always underlined of a large black feature.

Its accounts were illustrated by his/her mother, Olga Lecaye ( Kouma terrible the , 1999; I am lost ; Not of concern, Jérémie , 2004), by Antoon Krings (series of the family and the animals of Kiko), and by his/her sister known under the pseudonym of Nadja ( Mitch , 1989; the Robber of toys , 1991; …) He in addition wrote accounts for older children: the Girls never die (1988).

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Biography and bibliography
animals at G. Solotareff

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