Vasile Socoliuc was a Romanian illustrator and painter (b. August 7, 1937, at Tisauti, Suceava County – d. August 11, 2008. After taking courses at the Fine Arts School in Bucharest, he attended the N. Grigorescu Fine Arts Institute, graphics department. He worked as a graphic artist with the Publishing House for World Literature, Bucharest.
He was awarded various prizes and distinctions. A member of the Union of Fine Artists of Romania, he participated in several national and international exhibitions, salons, and arts biennials. He created at least 1,500 book and series cover designs (Contemporary French Theater, Classics of World Literature, illustrated books: Stories about a Fisherman and a Fish by A.S. Pushkin, The Hatchet by Mihail Sadoveanu), as well as posters (for instance that for the movie Andrej Rubliov), hosted now by the Willanow Museum of Warsaw.
