Francisco Meléndez

Zaragoza, 1964



He was awarded in 1987 with the National Illustration Prize for The Black Sheep and Other Fables. As author and illustrator of The True Story of the Invention of the Submarine, he received the LIBER Prize for Best Edited Book and was awarded the Silver Medal at the «Most beautiful books in the world» exhibition in Leipzig in 1990. He was awarded the second National Prize for Illustration in 1992 for Leopold’s Dream. In 1996, Meléndez gave up his career and chose to live in a monastery where he founded an educational and social organization promoting artistic work among children, outside of academic circles.

Títulos publicados:
The Diaries of Adam and Eve