Olga Pärn (1976) is an animator, film director, and illustrator. She graduated in graphic arts from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts and completed a course in film direction at the La Poudriere animation school in Valence, France. Currently, she works as a visiting professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Pärn’s style is sometimes fun, other times somewhat sarcastic and edging towards dark humour, but always warm and witty. Her illustrations provide food for thought.
2021 Karl Eduard Sööt Children’s Poetry Award, Readers Choice (Anti Saar. The Great Pancake-Make, for illustrations) 2020 Good Children’s Book (Anti Saar. The Great Pancake-Make)
2018 25 Best-Designed Estonian Books (Aino Pervik. From BonnyHead and Beyond) Good Children’s Book (Aino Pervik. From BonnyHead and Beyond) 2015 5 Best-Designed Estonian Children’s Books, special prize of the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre (Gianni Rodari. Telephone Tales) 25 Best-Designed Estonian Books (Gianni Rodari. Telephone Tales)
Exhibitions
2019 Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), Slovakia 2017 Group exhibition of Estonian illustrators “Leafing Through Estonian Children’s Books I”, Moscow, Kolomna, Russia 2016 Spring exhibition of Estonian illustrators, Estonian Children’s Literature Centre 2013 Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), Slovakia
2008–2009 Olga and Priit Pärn’s exhibition “Life without Gabriella Ferri”, Tallinn, Tartu
Olga Pärn (1976) is an animator, film director, and illustrator. She graduated in graphic arts from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts and completed a course in film direction at the La Poudriere animation school in Valence, France. Currently, she works as a visiting professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Pärn’s style is sometimes fun, other times somewhat sarcastic and edging towards dark humour, but always warm and witty. Her illustrations provide food for thought.
