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Paula Bonet

Spanish artist, illustrator, painter and author (born 1980)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ16473586
Source-derived summary

Paula Bonet (born 1980 in Vila-real, Spain) is a Spanish book illustrator and painter. She has taken part in various projects and books, such as the book of poems called "Si uneixes tots els punts" ("If you connect all the points") written by Estel Solé and the work "T'estimo, ets perfecte, ja et canviaré" directed by Elisenda Roca. She became famous mainly because of the illustrations she began doing in 2009, she has hundreds of thousands of followers on social networks.

Biography

She was born in Vila-real. As a child, she loved everything related to drawing as a way of expressing herself artistically. At the age of 14 she joined a drawing academy in her home city, Vila Real, this was the start of what would become, years later, her profession. After completing secondary school, she decided to study Fine Arts even though many of her relatives and friends told her she should study other careers which have more professional output. When Paula was 17 she was admitted to the Polytechnic University of Valencia to study Fine Arts. Once she completed these studies, she decided to spend time abroad continuing her university studies. She travelled to Santiago de Chile and for four months she studied at PUC. After that, she went to New York thanks to a scholarship and studied at the NYU for six months.

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“Paula Bonet” enters the record as spanish artist, illustrator, painter and author (born 1980). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paula, Bonet and Spanish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-12-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Paula, Bonet and Spanish.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16473586. VIAF identifies the subject as 308750591. The Library of Congress control number is no2014103818. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Paula Bonet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.