Dusan Petricić was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. He graduated from University of Belgrade Faculty of Applied Arts and Design in 1969 in the class of Professor Bogdan Krsić. During the last several decades his political cartoons and illustrations were regularly appearing in the major Yugoslav newspapers and magazines and since 1993 also in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Toronto Star, Scientific American and many others. As co-author and/or illustrator he created more than 30 books for children, published in Yugoslavia and North America. Among them: Hutchins, Hazel and Herbert, Gail: Mattland, Annick Press, Toronto 2008; Elis, Sarah:The Queen’s Feet, Red Deer 2006; Dash, Joan: A Dangerous Engine - Benjamin Franklin. New York, 2005; Atwood, Margaret: Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda. Toronto, 2004; Atwood, Margaret: Rude Ramsay and Roaring Radishes. Toronto, 2003; Davis, Aubrey: Bagels from Benny. Toronto, 2003; Dash, Joan: The Longitude Prize. New York, 2000; Wynn-Jones, Tim: The Tumbledown Hill. Red Deer, 1998; Shalom, Vivienne: The Color of Things. New York, 1995; Gryski, Camilla: Let’s Play. Toronto, 1995; Davis Aubrie: Bone Button Borscht. Toronto, 1995; Radovic, Dusan: Prica o detinjstvu - Nikola Tesla. 1980; Rsumovic, Ljubivoje: Jos nam samo ale fale. Beograd, 1972. Petricić Dusan is a recipient of many prestigious international awards for cartoons and book illustrations from Tokyo, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Leipzig, Moscow, Budapest, Ankara, New York, Philadelphia,Toronto, Montreal and Skopje. He was a professor of illustration and animation at the University of Belgrade, as well at the Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada. Since 1993 he has been living in Toronto, with his wife Dragana and daughter Mihaila.
