Julia Doria

Julia Doria is a Slovene writer, illustrator and visual artist. Ljubljana, Slovenia. She writes children's books and prose fiction for adults. Her illustrations appear in children's picture books and in prose fiction and nonfiction books.

Life and work She graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Library and Information Science and Book Studies in Ljubljana in 2004 and from Academy of Fine Arts, Illustration & Visual Communication Design in Ljubljana in 2015. Since 2005 she has run her publishing house Atelje Doria.

Published works Kresnička in njena lučka (The little Firefly and her Light), children's book, 2007 Naša kužica zaspanka (Our Puppy the Sleepyhead), children's book, 2007 Aidor – Legenda o Griču tisočerih rož (Aidor – The Legend of Thousand Fower Hill), prose, 2007 Netopirček Tinček (Tincek, the little Bat), children's book, 2008 Mavrica pripoveduje (The Rainbow is talking), children's book, 2010 Kresnička Sija in pikapolonica Lili na mavrični gugalnici (Sija the Firefly and Lili the Ladybug on Rainbow Swing ), children's book, 2011 Kako je muren Vladimir presenetil svet (How Vladimir the Cricket surprised the World), children's book, 2011 Diamanti na tvojem dvorišču (Diamonds in Your own Backyard), prose, 2011 Samoregulacija in učenje (Self-regulation and learning), 2011 Psička Pia in borovnice (Puppy Pia and the blueberries), children's book, 2012 Povodni mož Svit je zaljubljen (Svit the Water Man is in Love), children's book, 2012 Keltski vrt (Celtic garden), 2013 Vesoljček Pi (Alien Pi), children's book, 2015 Rdeči jelen in lešniki (The red Deer and the Hazelnuts), children's book, 2016 Feniks : grenko sladka mikropoezija, poetry, 2017 Abeceda z žužki, children's book, 2016 Marsovčki na počitnicah, children's book, 2017 , English translation When little Martians had holidays Metulj Modrin in čarobni vrt, children's book, 2017 , English translation The Chapman's Blue butterfly and the secret garden Cvetek, ki se ni hotel zmočiti, children's book, 2017 , English translation A floret that did not want to get wet Taščica, children's book, 2018 , English translation The redbreast Radovedni podlesek Albert, children's book, 2018 , English translation Curious Albert the hazel dormouse Glej, žaba!, children's book, 2018 , English translation Look, a frog! Čmrlj Brenčač, children's book, 2018 , English translation The buzzing bumblebee Dežela sneženega moža, children's book, 2019 , English translation The Land of the Snowman Zvonček in stržek prikličeta pomlad, children's book, 2019 , English translation The snowdrop and the wren summon the spring Vrt škrata Avgusta, children's book, 2019 , English translation The garden of August the dwarf Žužkopis : slikopis z žuželkami, children's book, 2019 Ptičje strašilo in lastovka, children's book, 2019 , English translation The scarecrow and the swallow