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Valery Shatunov (biography)
Valerijus Šatunovas is a Lithuanian artist, illustrator and advertising designer, animator, inventor and writer. He received his education in the fields of graphic engraving, etching, drawing, sculpture, ceramics and art history – at the School of Art under the Ministry of Culture and Science of Lithuania. Valery received further education under the guidance of his father Viktor Shatunov, a world-famous illustrator of children’s books. Their first joint book was put into circulation in 1989, with three consecutive editions by the Malysh publishing house. The circulation reached more than 3,000,000 copies. Valery continues to create illustrations for children’s books together with his father, which are still published in more than 12 countries around the world. The total circulation of jointly created books reached more than 20,000,000 copies…