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Nurit Karlin
writer
- December 26, 1938
- April 30, 2019
- 80 years
About Nurit Karlin
Nurit Karlin, 80, Israeli cartoonist.
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|Nurit Karlin (Hebrew: נורית קרלין; 26 December 1938 - 30 April 2019) was an Israeli cartoonist, known for her cartoons in The New Yorker.
Karlin joined The New Yorker as a regular cartoonist in 1974 and worked there for fourteen years.
She wrote the 1996 children's book The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat.
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- "The Pioneering Cartoons of Nurit Karlin"newyorker.com
- "Nurit Karlin, Who Found Her Voice in Wordless Cartoons, Dies at 80"nytimes.com
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