Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan ( born 1974 in Fremantle, Western Australia ) is an Australian writer and illustrator.

Life and work

Shaun Tan specializes in picture books or graphic novels. In 2010 he was the artistic guest of honor at the 68th Worldcon in Melbourne. His award- winning book The Arrival (Eng. A new country ) describes in haunting images the migration of a father in a foreign country, with completely strange customs, food and animals. Shaun Tan has been working on this book for four years. In this book there is not one readable word.

He worked as a concept artist on the films Horton Hears a Who! and WALL-E - Legend of the Dee to the earth, both of which were published in 2008. His film The Lost Thing, which he realized with Andrew Ruhemann and based on his own book from the year 1999, won many awards.

Awards

  • 2002 New South Wales Premier 's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature, The Red Tree
  • 2006 New South Wales Premier 's Literary Award, The Arrival
  • 2007 Picture Book of the Year Award, The Arrival
  • 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Artist
  • 2008 Prix du meilleur album at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême, The Arrival
  • 2008 Book of the Month ( October ) of the Institute for Youth Literature, The Arrival
  • 2008 ALA Best Books for Young Adults, '' The Arrival ''
  • 2009 LYNX 260, Tales from Outer Suburbia
  • 2009 German Youth Literature Prize / category picture book, Tales from Outer Suburbia
  • 2011 Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart, SWR Pubikumspreis for The Lost Thing
  • 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Works

  • The Playground, 1997
  • The Puppet, 1999, text by Ian Bone
  • The Red Tree, 2001 (Eng. The Red Tree, Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-551-51778-4 )
  • The Rabbits, 2003 (Eng. The Hare)
  • The Arrival 2006 (Eng. A new country Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-551-73431-0 )
  • Tales from Outer Suburbia, 2008 (Eng. stories from Outer Suburbia, Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-551-58198-3 )
  • The Bird King and other sketches. Templar Publishing, 2011 (Eng. The Bird King and other sketches, Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-551-51759-3 )
  • Philip Pullman: Grimm's Fairy Tales, from the English by Martina Tichy. Aladin Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8489-2001-3.
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