Dušan Petričić

{{short description|Serbian illustrator and caricaturist}}

{{distinguish|Dušan Petrič}}

{{Infobox artist

| name = Dušan Petričić

| image = Dušan Petričić wiki photo.jpg

| caption = Petričić in 2010

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|05|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia

| nationality = Serbian

| field = Illustration, cartoons, animation

| training = Academy of Applied Arts, Belgrade

| movement =

| works = Children's books illustrations

| patrons =

| awards = {{Awd|Levstik Award|1987|for Guliver med pritlikavci}}{{Awd|Silbert Honour|2001|for The Longitude Prize}}

}}

Dušan Petričić ({{lang-sr-cyr|Душан Петричић}}; born 10 May 1946) is a Serbian illustrator and caricaturist. He has illustrated numerous children's books and his caricatures have appeared in various newspapers and magazines from Politika to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Toronto Star.[http://us.macmillan.com/author/dusanpetricic "Dušan Petričić"], Macmillan Publishers[http://www.politika.rs/karikaturisti-politike/Dusan-Petricic/Berluskoni.lt.html "Dušan Petricic"], Politika

Petričić has received numerous awards for his work including an IBBY Certificate of Honour, an Alberta Book Award for his illustrations in Tim Wynne-Jones' On Tumbledown Hill and many others. In 1989 he won the Levstik Award in Slovenia for his illustrations of Guliver med pritlikavci (Gulliver in Lilliput).{{Cite web |url=http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade |title=The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site |access-date=2012-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317130359/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade |archive-date=2012-03-17 |url-status=dead }}

In 2001 the book The Longitude Prize for which he produced the illustrations won an honour at the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Awards.

From 1993 to 2013, he lived and worked in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.