Zhu Chengliang
Zhu Chengliang 朱成梁 is a prizewinning Chinese author and illustrator of children's books, often using traditional Chinese painting styles.
Zhu Chengliang
- Born
- 1948 · Shanghai.
- Nationality
- People's Republic of China
- Occupation
- children's writer · illustrator · painter
- Fields
- illustration · book illustration · comic
- Education
- Nanjing University
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Zhu Chengliang 朱成梁 is a prizewinning Chinese author and illustrator of children's books, often using traditional Chinese painting styles.
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Zhu Chengliang (born 1948) is a children's writer, illustrator and painter, of Chinese nationality. The children's writer was born in Shanghai.
Zhu Chengliang was educated at Nanjing University. Activity centred on book illustration, comic and illustration.
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Biography
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.
Works
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
Identity
Identity
Zhu Chengliang is recorded with the occupation children's writer. Recorded with the occupation illustrator. Recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded as children's writer, illustrator and painter.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1948
Zhu Chengliang born at Shanghai.
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- “Zhu Chengliang”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and honours
• Grandpa's Tinderbox was nominated for the IBBY Honour List 2014 • A New Year's Reunion (Chinese edition) won first prize in the Feng Zikai Children's Book Award 2010 • A New Year's Reunion (English translation) was listed as one of the 2011 Ten Best Illustrated Books by The New York Times • The Sparkling Rabbit-Shaped Lamp was a Runner Up in the 4th UNESCO Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations (1984)
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- 1."Zhu Chengliang: Illustrator – China", Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, Vol.54, No.2 (2016), p. 20.
- 2.Zhu Chengliang. www.ibby.org.
- 3.Zhu Cheng Liang.
- 4."Zhu Chengliang: Illustrator – China", Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, Vol.54, No.2 (2016), p. 20.
- 5.Zhu Chengliang | Feng Zikai Chinese Children's Picture Book Award 豐子愷兒童圖畫書獎.
- 6.Best Illustrated Books of 2011 - Slide Show. The New York Times. 2011-11-09.
- 7.公益財団法人ユネスコ・アジア文化センター -.
- 8.Sweet Laba Congee.
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