Zhu Chengliang

Chinese author and illustrator

Zhu Chengliang 朱成梁 is a prizewinning Chinese author and illustrator of children's books, often using traditional Chinese painting styles.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Zhu Chengliang was born in Shanghai in 1948, and spent his childhood in Suzhou. He studied at the Department of Fine Art, Nanjing University, and has worked as an author, illustrator, editor and designer. He is currently Deputy Chief Editor of the Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House.^[3]

Awards and honours

Grandpa's Tinderbox was nominated for the IBBY Honour List 2014^[4]
A New Year's Reunion (Chinese edition) won first prize in the Feng Zikai Children's Book Award 2010^[5]
A New Year's Reunion (English translation) was listed as one of the 2011 Ten Best Illustrated Books by the New York Times^[6]
The Sparkling Rabbit-Shaped Lamp was a Runner Up in the 4th UNESCO Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations (1984)^[7]

Works

All in a Day (author: Mitsumasa Anno), 1986
The Story of the Kitchen God, 1988
Flame (author: Xi Dun= ET Seton), 2007
A New Year's Reunion (author: Yu Li-qiong), 2008
Grandpa's Tinderbox, 2013
Sweet Laba Congee (author: Zhang Qiusheng), Reycraft Books, 2020^[8]

References

^ "Zhu Chengliang: Illustrator – China", Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, Vol.54, No.2 (2016), p. 20.
^ "Zhu Chengliang". www.ibby.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-19.
^ "Zhu Cheng Liang".
^ "Zhu Chengliang: Illustrator – China", Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, Vol.54, No.2 (2016), p. 20.
^ "Zhu Chengliang | Feng Zikai Chinese Children's Picture Book Award 豐子愷兒童圖畫書獎". Archived from the original on 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
^ "Best Illustrated Books of 2011 - Slide Show". The New York Times. 2011-11-09. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
^ "公益財団法人ユネスコ・アジア文化センター -". Archived from the original on 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
^ "Sweet Laba Congee".