Questions & Illustrations
with Maria Bakhareva & Anna Desnitskaya
In our “Question & Illustration” newsletter inspired by the Proust Questionnaire, each month we ask one of our artists to answer three questions about their personality using only illustrations. If you are interested in receiving our Q&I newsletter click here.
Around the World in 24 Farmers' Markets by Maria Bakhareva and Anna Desnitskaya has received the Prix Sorcières 2023 in the children's non-fiction book category (Editions La Partie) and the Die-Ziet Luchs Prize of the Month (Gerstenberg Verlag). For the occasion we asked Maria and Anna to play our mini-Proust questionnaire by answering our questions in unison, using the tools of their trade.
What is your most treasured possession?
Maria: Probably my old volume of Andersen's fairy tales illustrated by Viktor Pivovarov.
I moved around a lot before settling in Budapest, so I hardly have any other books from my childhood.
This one was my favorite, and everything I love about art now was embedded in the illustrations in this book.
Anna:
What is your most marked characteristic?
Maria: I'm a natural-born researcher, so all my friends use me as their reference bureau.
Anna:
Which historical figure do you mostly identify with?
Maria: I often say that I would like to be like Astrid Lindgren when I grow up.
The only problem is that I've been growing up for a long time now, but I'm still nowhere near Astrid's level!
Anna:
