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Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Beside The Lost Thing, The Red Tree and The Arrival are books he has written and illustrated.
Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1974 and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006.
Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself."
For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.
Shaun Tan explains his drawing process and explores the potential meaning of a particular image from Rules of Summer. RULES OF SUMMER, is a deceptively simple story about two boys, one older and one younger, and the kind of 'rules' that might govern any relationship between close friends or siblings. Rules that are often so strange or arbitrary, they seem impossible to understand from the outside. Yet through each exquisite illustration of this nearly wordless narrative, we can enjoy wandering around an emotional landscape that is oddly familiar to us all. Visit https://www.rulesofsummer.com.au for more detail.
Brendan Brumby narrates the audio book version of the children's classic "Cicada", featuring over dozen talented voices.
Shaun Tan is an artist and author whose illustrated works have received widespread acclaim. His works transcend the 'picture book' genre through their meditative exploration of daunting spaces and existential themes. If his illustrations contain threatening elements, they are rarely found in the characters and dialogue - instead the structuring logic comes from the liminal and transitory spaces through which his characters move. Shrinking the inter-planetary themes of science fiction to fit the suburbs, Shaun has also worked as an author, compiling a number of his short stories for the collection Tales from Outer Suburbia. In recent years he's applied his techniques to animation, directing the Oscar winning short film The Lost Thing. Whilst the final product was produced using CGI, all t...
Shaun Tan being interviewed by William McInnes for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards presentation in 2011. Shaun is asked about his career and being an Ambassador for the National Year of Reading
Featuring the special boxed set of the best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic novel THE ARRIVAL, and a new companion volume of commentary and developmental drawings, SKETCHES FROM A NAMELESS LAND, will fascinate anyone who has fallen under the spell of Shaun Tan's timeless story. https://www.hachette.com.au/shaun-tan/the-arrival-and-sketch-book ---- Hachette Australia Books is a team of expert publishers and passionate readers dedicated to discovering and supporting talented writers and working with them to craft exceptional stories. Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/HachetteAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hachetteaus/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HachetteAustralia/ Website: https://www.hachette.com.au/ Sign up to our newsletter: https://www.hachette.com...
Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Beside The Lost Thing, The Red Tree and The Arrival are books he has written and illustrated.
Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1974 and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006.
Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself."
For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.
Когато чуеш моя глас защо смутен стоиш насреща?
За теб съм само песен аз, а може би и още нещо?
Ти слушаш всеки мой концерт, на място все от теб заето -
в средата на петнайсти ред, в ръце с петнадесет лалета.
Петнадесет лалета, петнадесети ред
и мястото заето на всеки мой концерт.
Лалетата прекрасни - цветя на обичта -
на мен ли ги поднасяш или на песента?
За всички хора пея аз и ти си винаги насреща,
до теб достига моя глас и още нещо, още нещо.
Така ли ще ме помниш ти, така ли аз ще те запомня -
прожектор от страни блести и барабаните се гонят.
Петнадесет лалета, петнадесети ред
и мястото заето на всеки мой концерт.
Лалетата прекрасни - цветя на обичта -
на мен ли ги поднасяш или на песента?
Петнадесет лалета, петнадесети ред
и мястото заето на всеки мой концерт.
Лалетата прекрасни - цветя на обичта -
на мен ли ги поднасяш или на песента?
Петнадесет лалета, петнадесети ред
и мястото заето на всеки мой концерт.
Лалетата прекрасни - цветя на обичта -
на мен ли ги поднасяш или на песента?