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Arts and Arts
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Published in 11 countries around the world! Won the Taiwanese Open Book Excellent Book Award,
The most beautiful German book, and many nominations such as the German Children's Literature Award!
More than 200 characters from cuneiform characters to pictograms are now available. This is an amazing visual book.
Characters were invented about 5500 years ago.
After a long period of time when patterns were carved on stones and bones, computers can now display as many as 150000 characters.
People send out enormous messages every day.
What was the first character born around the world?
Who invented characters?
Boldly depicts the world of various characters with the background of language, society, history and culture.
Recommended by Shinjirō Kazama, Professor of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Chairman of the Japanese Committee for the Olympics of Linguistics
This book is filled with the love of the author who is equal to even the smallest group of characters.
Author :
Artist, illustrator, cartoonist and writer. Born in Ukraine in 1963. After studying architecture, graphic art, painting and art history, he published fiction and nonfiction works for children and adults since 1999. Published in 35 countries including the German Children's Literature Award and the most beautiful German book. He worked as a lecturer at a German university for drawing, illustration and comic art. In 2017, he became a guest lecturer at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. He also at domestic and international workshops. He lives in Germany.