Authors

Roman Aronson

Writes
Children's fiction
Based in
Latvia
Writes in
Russian

Roman Aronson is a Latvian author of stories for children. He writes in Russian, and his stories are built on wordplay: in Terracatta, almost every name, place and title has a cat hidden inside it.

Artmost represents Roman’s work to publishers, translators and partners. His first title with Artmost, Terracatta – The Land of Cats, is available in the Russian original and in complete English and Norwegian translations, with a full set of illustrations for the Norwegian edition.

Illustrated portrait of Roman Aronson, a bearded man in glasses and a tweed coat, walking hand in paw with a ginger kitten wearing a medal through a storybook city.
Roman Aronson with the young poet of Terracatta. Illustration from the Norwegian edition.
Cover of Terrakatta – Kattenes land by Roman Aronson: a ginger kitten in a blue hoodie sits on a sunny stone wall above a city of spires, towers and sailing boats.
Cover of the Norwegian edition, Terrakatta – Kattenes land.

Book

Terracatta – The Land of Cats

A detective story for children, set on a faraway planet of cats. When cheeky rhymes start appearing on the walls of Catterbury in blue chalk, Chief Inspector Cattani and Constable Catnip set out to catch the hooligan – and the whole city discovers that cats love poetry.

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