Asunción Balzola Elorza (Bilbao, July 18, 1942 - Madrid, June 22, 2006), better known as Asun Balzola, was a Spanish autodidact illustrator, writer and translator. After partially recovering from a severe car crash, she studied painting and graphic arts at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Balzola worked in advertising and graphic design, in addition to her work in the fine arts. Among other awards, she received the Lazarillo Prize for her illustrations and has twice earned the Spanish National Illustration Prize.
Asun Balzola's illustration style is best known for the use of color blotches and thick lines (frequently painting using a watercolour technique). Her files and library were donated, posthumously, to the Centro de Documentación Infantil of the Central Library at San Sebastián.
Some Works Written and Illustrated By Asun Balzolamoreless
Historia de un erizo. Miñón. 1978. Spanish National Illustration Prize.
Munia y la luna (Apel·les Mestres Prize 1980). Los zapatos de Munia. Munia y el cocodrilo naranja. Munia y la señora Piltronera (Spanish National Illustration Prize 1985). Munia y los hallazgos. Destino. 1980-1988. (Munia and the moon. Munia and the red shoes. Munia and the orange crocodile. Munia and the day things went wrong, Cambridge University Press, 1988-1989.)
Santino el pastelero. Destino. 1986.
Ala de mosca. Pirene. 1989.
La cazadora de Indiana Jones. SM. 1989.
El niño dibuja la noche. Nada como los disfraces. Buscar a María. Scott Foresman. 1999.