David Polonsky (; born 1973) is an Israeli book illustrator and artistic film director.
Career His illustrations appeared in all major Israeli magazines and newspapers and illustrated many children's books, for which he received multiple awards. He also directed children's animated TV films. He taught illustration at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
In 2018, he illustrated Ari Folman's graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank's diary."'You Feel All That Loss in One Image': Anne Frank's Diary Re-imagined as an Edgy Graphic Novel", Haaretz That same year, an English-language translation of The Heart-Shaped Leaf (written by Shira Geffen and illustrated by Polonsky) was published by Green Bean Books.
Filmography 2008: Waltz with Bashir, animated war documentary; made into a graphic novel by Folman and PolonskyWaltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story, Atlantic Books, 1 March 2009, 2013: The Congress 2021: Legend of Destruction
Awards 2004 Ben-Yitzhak Prize of the Israel Museum for Children's Books Illustration, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2008 The Excellence Award of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem 2008 Ben-Yitzhak Prize of the Israel Museum for Children's Books Illustration, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2008 The Ophir Prize of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television for artistic direction, for Waltz with Bashir 2008 Award for Decorations, Cinema Eye Honors, for Waltz with Bashir 2012 Andersen Prize for the Illustration of Children's Books, International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), Basel, Switzerland.
References
External links This Animated Life: An Interview with David Polonsky, about film and graphic novel Waltz With Bashir