Kang-Mi Yoon
- Name
- Yoon Kang-mi
- Occupation
- Picture book author
- Birthplace
- Gyeongsan, South Korea
- Born
- 1965 · Gyeongsan.
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Education
- Yeungnam University
- Languages
- Korean
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• Name — Yoon Kang-mi • Language — Korean • Genre — Picture books • Occupation — Picture book author • Birthplace — Gyeongsan, South Korea • Notable Works — * The Building Where Trees Grow • The Piece of Moonlight Yoon Kang-mi is a South Korean illustrator. “Yoon” is her last name. She majored in painting at university, and has presented her work in numerous exhibitions. She studied how to make picture books in various workshops. She won support for publishing her work through a visitors’ vote in the first Un-Printed Ideas exhibition hosted by the Hyundai Museum of Kids’ Books & Art in 2018. A Building Where Trees Grow is her first original picture book.
Career
Career
Yoon Kang-mi's first picture book The Building Where Trees Grow was selected via a visitors’ vote at the 1st Un-Printed Ideas exhibition, organized by the Hyundai Museum of Kids’ Books & Art in 2018. She was selected as Illustrator of the Year at the 2020 Bologna International Children's Book Fair for the book. She also won the Illustrator Award at the Lit Up! Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC) in Singapore for The Piece of Moonlight in 2022.
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Works as writer and illustrator
• 2023 Mina's Little Bird (Gilbut Kids) • 2021 Moonless Night (Changbi) • 2019 The Building Where Trees Grow (Changbi) • 2019 La maison qui fleurit (Rue du Monde, France) • 2019 Dove crescono gli alberi (Topipittori, Italy) • 2019 長滿樹的大廈 (靑林國際出版服有限公司, Taiwan) • 2019 Aǧaçlarin yetiştiği Bina (koç Üniversitesi Yayinlari çocuk kitapiari, Türkiye)
Reception
The Building Where Trees Grow was praised by French critic Christophe Meunier, for how it portrays the harmony between nature and architecture, and for the imagination underlying it. Italian critic Giovanna Zoboli praised the "simplicity, linearity, immediacy of the narrative solutions adopted by Yoong Kang-mi".
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