Adam Jaromir was born in 1971 in Bielsko-Bia\u0142a in southern Poland. He studied German and Italian at the universities of Hanover and Florence. In Hanover in 2006 he co-founded, together with Luca Emanueli, the Gimpel publishing company, which specialises in publishing children’s books, including Iwona Chmielewska’s multiple-award-winning \u00bbPami\u0119tnika Blumki\u00ab (2011, t: Blumka\u2019s Diary \u2013 On Living in Janusz Korczak\u2019s Orphanage). Alongside his work as a publisher, Adam Jaromir is also an author and translator. His own books \u2013 also published by Gimpel \u2013 are often about the experience of otherness, as in \u00bbZarafa\u00ab (2009) the tale of the historical giraffe Zarafa, who arrived in Paris in 1827 after a two-year journey from Africa and was greeted by tens of thousands of spectators. With eloquence and delicate humour, Jaromir speculates as to what the giraffe might have experienced at the court of the French king. The book has an unusual portrait format and follows a finely detailed and complex structure of image and text, which is remarkable for the inventiveness of the typography and for Pawel Pawlak’s charming illustrations. \u00bbZarafa\u00ab is about literal beginnings and the magic they contain, the desire for adventure, and the magic of storytelling. Jaromir’s book \u00bbS\u0142oni\u0105tko\u00ab (2010) is no less ambitious. It is the story of a little white elephant who travels from the African savannah to the city of Meissen, famed for its porcelain. The design is once more a cleverly-conceived symbiosis of image and text, enchanting the reader with short, powerful lines, an exceptional typography and Gabriela Cichowska’s beautiful illustrations \u2013 a touching and thoughtful story of an animal searching for nothing less than itself and its place in the world. With \u00bbFr\u00e4ulein Esthers letzte Vorstellung \u2013 Eine Geschichte aus dem Warschauer Ghetto\u00ab (2012, ill: Gabriela Cichowska, t: Miss Esther’s last performance – A story of the Warsaw ghetto) and \u00bbTallula \u2013 K\u00f6nigin der Nacht\u00ab (2012, ill: J\u00f3zef Wilko\u0144, t: Tallula \u2013 Queen of the night) Adam Jaromir published two more books in 2012. With the books he has so far published and written, Jaromir has established his importance as one of the courageous \u201cbibliophiles\u201d who \u2013 flying in the face of market pressures \u2013 actively support the picture book as a relevant artistic form in Germany.<\/p>\n
Adam Jaromir has received prizes and awards for his work as both publisher and author, including the Bologna Ragazzi Award (2011) and a nomination for the German Prize for Children’s Literature (2012). Adam Jaromir has lived in Hanover since 1985.<\/p>\n
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