JIMMY LIAO
Jimmy Liao is prolific picture book author from Taiwan. He began creating illustrated books in 1998, expanding the readership of picture books beyond children to general audiences. Since he began to devote himself to picture books, he has published more than 60 works in all. His books have been translated into numerous languages, including English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, German, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Russian, Polish, Estonian, and Swedish. He has also created original works for British, American, and Japanese publishers.
Studio Voice magazine named Jimmy one of Asia’s ‘most creative 55 people’, and the Discovery Channel chose Jimmy as one of the six outstanding Taiwanese in its show ‘Portraits Taiwan’. Many of Jimmy’s works have been turned into musicals, television dramas and films. The animation of A Fish that Smiled at Me won the prize for best short film at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival. Jimmy’s works have won several Golden Tripod Awards in Taiwan, the Belgian literary prize ‘Le Prix Versele’, the First Prize for artistic illustration from Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, and ‘Peter Pan’s Silver Stars Prize’ from Sweden. He has also been nominated for the Swedish Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which is the world’s most prestigious prize for literature aimed at children and youths.
The above text selected from 2018, All of My World is You: Jimmy Liao 20th Anniversary Exhibition.
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