(born 1956) is a
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
illustrator. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" he won the
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award ( sv, Litteraturpriset till Astrid Lindgrens minne) is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honour the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907– ...
from the Swedish Arts Council in 2005, the largest cash prize in
children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Children's ...
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Life
Arai was born in Yamagata in 1956[ and educated at Nihon University Yamagata Junior & Senior High School. He studied art at ]Nihon University
, abbreviated as , is a private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice, in 1889. It is one of Japan's leading private univers ...
[ and he lives in Tokyo. His first published work was the picture book ''Melody'' in 1990. That year he won the "Grand Award for new illustrators" (quoting the Swedish Arts Council).][
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See also
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20070206050355/http://brooks.d.carambole.com/overview/fileobjects/Biblio_RA_e.pdf
Further reading
* ''The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award booklet: Philip Pullman / Ryoji Arai'', Statens Kulturråd, Stockholm, 2005, 12 pp (unpaginated)
External links
J'Lit , Authors : Ryoji Arai , Books from Japan
Ryouzi Arai
at Amazon
* (March 2014, perhaps no catalog records; none as "Arai, Ryōji, 1956-")
Japanese children's book illustrators
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winners
Nihon University alumni
1956 births
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Writers from Yamagata Prefecture
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