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{{Short description|Indian children's book illustrator}}
{{about|an Indian children's book illustrator|Gujarati poet|Jagdish Joshi (poet)}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}}
'''Jagdish Joshi''' (born 1937-2016) is an [[India]]n [[children's book]] [[Book illustration|illustrator]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Khorana|first=Meena|title=The Indian subcontinent in literature for children and young adults|page=160|url=https://books.google.com/?id=GSjcQ7Sm5E4C&pg=PA160&dq=jagdish+joshi+illustrator#v=onepage&q=jagdish%20joshi%20illustrator&f=false|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year= 1991|isbn=0313254893}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature|author=Peter Hunt|publisher=Routledge|year=2004 |isbn=0203168127 |page=800 |url=https://books.google.com/?id=XqaTzQBVDCAC&pg=PA800&lpg=PA800&dq=jagdish+joshi+illustrator#v=onepage&q=jagdish%20joshi%20illustrator&f=false }}</ref> Born 1937, he studied fine arts at the Indian College Of Arts And Draftsmanship, [[Dum Dum]], [[Kolkata]] and later worked for the [[Hindustan Times]] and [[Children's Book Trust]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Zipes|first=Jack David|title=The Oxford encyclopedia of children's literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|isbn=0195146565
|url=https://books.google.com/?id=VD4OAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Joshi,+Jagdish%22&dq=%22Joshi,+Jagdish%22|page=337}}</ref> He also illustrated several books for the [[National Book Trust]], and remained "one of most sought after" illustrators in children's literature in India, through the 1990s.<ref>{{cite book |title=Telling tales: children's literature in India|author= Amit Dasgupta|author2=Indian Council for Cultural Relations |publisher=Taylor & Francis|year= 1995|isbn=812240748X |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/?id=53nMJAyOnwkC&pg=PA72&dq=jagdish+joshi+illustrator#v=onepage&q=jagdish%20joshi%20illustrator&f=false |ref= |author2-link= Indian Council for Cultural Relations}}</ref>

In 1998, he was a nominee for the [[Hans Christian Andersen Award]], sometimes known as the "Nobel Prize for children's literature", is an international award given biennially by the [[International Board on Books for Young People]] (IBBY) in recognition of a "lasting contribution to children's literature".<ref>{{cite book |title=Library literature & information science|author=H.W. Wilson Company|publisher=H.W. Wilson Co.|year=1999|isbn= |page=148 |url= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibby.org/519.0.html|website=www.ibby.org |title=2005 India|date= |publisher=International Board on Books For Young People|accessdate=26 April 2015}}</ref>

==Work==
===As Illustrator===
*''[https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13132769M/A_Voice_in_the_Jungle A Voice in the Jungle]'' (1986) by Jagdish Joshi(National Book Trust)
*''Barber at the Zoo'' by Pratibha Nath (Children's Book Trust, 1984)
*''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6313653W/How_Munia_Found_Gold How Munia Found Gold]'' (1984) by Jagdish Joshi(National Book Trust)
*''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6313656W/One_Day One Day]'' (1999) by Jagdish Joshi (National Book Trust)
*''Search'' by [[Arvind Krishna Mehrotra]] (1991)
*''[https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2825033M/The_Kaziranga_trail The Kaziranga Trail]'' by Arup Kumar Dutta (1978)
*''South Indian Legends'' by Maya Thomas and Alaka Shankar (Children's Book Trust, 1980)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86-102927 Jagdish Joshi page at WorldCat]

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[[Category:Indian children's book illustrators]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Gujarati]]

Jagdish Joshi - Revision history

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