Kyung Hye-won |
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| Occupation | illustrator, picture book author |
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| Language | Korean |
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| Genre | Picture books |
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Kyung Hye-won(Korean: 경혜원) is a South Korean picture book author and illustrator. Her representative works include Elevator, Dinosaur X-Ray, Bigger Than You, I’m a Lion, and My Big, Secret Friend. She won the Taiwan Open Book Award in 2018 for Dinosaur X-Ray.[1]
Career
Kyung has worked as an illustrator since 2004, mainly providing illustrations for children's books. She published her first picture book, Special Friends, in 2014. Her representative works include Elevator, Dinosaur X-Ray, Bigger Than You, I’m a Lion, and My Big, Secret Friend. Since many of her picture books are dinosaur-themed, she is also known as a "dinosaur author" to children in Korea.
Her work with Dinosaur X-Ray won the Taiwan Open Book Award for Best Children's Book in 2018.[1] Bigger than You (2018)[2] was first published by HarperCollins, an American publisher, and then exported back to Korea.
Works
Activities
- 2022 Participated in "Korean Picture Books: Fantasy in Everyday Life” seminar for Hong Kong primary and secondary school students at the Hong Kong Book Fair[3]
- 2022 Participated in "Meet Author Kyung Hye-won" held at Mu Kuang English School in Kwun Tong, under the aegis of the Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong[4]
- 2022 Collaborated in the Mighty Wonders exhibition with ceramic artists[5]
- 2017 53rd Group Exhibition at the Amway Museum of Art, Picture Books at the Museum (Exhibiting artists: Kyung Hye-won, Kim Myeong-seok, Lee Gi-hun, Lee Myung-ae, Lee Seok-gu, Jung Jinho)[6]
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