As well as winning the award for 2010 Children’s literature award ($15,000), Shaun Tan was named the recipient of the 2010 Premier’s award ($10,000).
His winning book Tales from outer suburbia pays homage to the Australian suburb and the diverse families that make their homes there.
Shaun Tan has been illustrating young adult fiction and picture books since 1996 and is recognised as a leading creator of ’sophisticated picture books’. The Lost thing published in 2000 was described as “Gary Larson meets Jeffrey Smart” and contrasts the casual ‘What I did on my holidays’ narrative with bizarre, freakishly surreal scenes. In 2002 The red tree won Patricia Wrightson Award, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and was an Honour Book in the 2002 CBCA awards. In 2007, Shaun’s brilliant wordless book, The arrival won The NSW Premier’s Book of the Year and the Community Relations Commission Award, the 2007 CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award and achieved a Special Mention in the prestigious Bologna Ragazzi Award.
Shaun’s honours include the International Illustrators of the Future Contest (1992), the Spectrum Gold and Silver Awards, the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards for Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the 2001 World Fantasy Award as Best Artist.
Click here to see what the judges said about Shaun’s award-winning book.
More about this author http://www.shauntan.net/
