Yu Rong ( zh, 郁蓉) is a multi award-winning Chinese illustrator of children's picture books, especially known for her use of

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artwork.

Biography

Born in

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, Yu Rong first trained as a primary school teacher, then studied for a BA in Chinese Painting and Contemporary Art Design (

Nanjing Normal University Nanjing Normal University (NJNU; zh, p=Nánjīng Shīfàn Dàxué, c=, s=南京师范大学) is a provincial public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is affiliated with the Province of Jiangsu, and co-sponsored by the Ministry of Educati ...

's Art College) and an MA in Communication and Design (

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, London). She now lives near Cambridge, UK.

Awards, honours, exhibitions

* 1999 - The Folio Society Illustration Awards * 1999 - The Quentin Blake Award for Narrative Illustration * 2000 - RCA Graduating Students Book Awards, RCA Final Degree Show * 2000 - RCA Sheila Robinson Drawing Prize * 2001&2002 - Contemporary Decorative Arts Exhibition, Sotheby's * 2004 - BookTrust Newcomer - for ''A Lovely Day for Amelia Goose'' * 2008 -

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(ALA) - Notable Children's Book - for ''Tracks of a Panda'' * 2013 -

Biennial of Illustration Bratislava The Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) is one of the oldest international honours for children's book illustrators. First granted in 1967 to Yasuo Segawa (Japan), it is one of the more prestigious children's book awards today, along with t ...

(BIB) - Golden Apple Award - for ''Free as a Cloud'' * 2013 - China's 8th National Book Design Exhibition - Best book in children's book category - for ''Free as a Cloud'' * 2013 - Shanghai International Children's Bookfair Golden Pinwheel Awards Grand Jury Prize and Reader's Choice Prize - for ''Free as a Cloud'' * 2013 - China's Most Beautiful Book - for ''Free as a Cloud'' * 2013 - The 8th National Book Design Exhibition, Best Book in Children's Book Category - for ''Free as a Cloud'' * 2015 - Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award - best picture book - for ''Smoke'' * 2015 - Chinese Original Picture Books Top 10 - first prize - for ''Summer'' * 2016 - Serbia International Bookfair - Illustration Award - for ''Smoke'' * 2016 - Shenzhen Children's Library Top 10 My Favorite Children's Books - for ''Summer'' * 2016 - The White Ravens selection of International Children's and Youth Literature - for ''Summer'' * 2017 - Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours 2017 Purple Island Award - for ''Smoke'' * 2017 - Image of the Book, Best Illustration Moscow - for ''I am Hua Mulan'' * 2017 - Chinese Original Picture Books Top 10 - first prize - for ''I am Hua Mulan'' * 2018 - The Ninth National Book Design Exhibition - for ''Summer'' * 2018 - Chinese Picture Book Time Award Golden Prize - for ''I am Hua Mulan'' * 2018 - The Ninth National Book Design Exhibition, Children's Book Brown Award - for ''I am Hua Mulan'' * 2019 - Chinese Original Picture Books Top 10 - for ''

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, Being a Better Me'' * 2021 - Ten Best National Children's Books - for ''The Lost Child'' * 2021 - IRead Best 100 Picture Books - for ''The Lost Child'' * 2022 - The Seventeenth Wenjin Book Award, National Library - for ''Footprints'' * 2022 - Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist - for ''Shu Lin's Grandpa'' * 2022 - The White Ravens selection of International Children's and Youth Literature - for ''Bread Years'' * 2022 - Xinhui Best Picture Books of the Year - for ''Have You Seen The Magpie?'' * 2022 - IBBY Selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities - for ''The Visible Sounds'' * 2023 - Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration, shortlisted - for ''The Visible Sounds'' * 2023 - UKLA Book Prize,

Works

* ''A Lovely Day for Amelia Goose'' (2004) * ''Tracks of a Panda'', with Nick Dowson (2007) * ''Smoke'', with

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, tr. Duncan Poupard 《烟》 (2015) * ''Snowflake in My Pocket'', with Rachel Bright (2016) * ''Free as a Cloud'', with Bai Bing 《云朵一样的八哥》 (2017) * ''I am Hua Mulan'', with Qin Wenjun 《我是花木兰》 (Reycraft, 2019) * ''Summer'', with Cao Wenxuan, tr. Yan Ding) 《夏天》 (Macmillan, 2019) * ''Dou Dou the Panda'' series, with

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, Jin Bo and Bai Bing 《熊猫逗逗系列》 (2019) * ''Sweet Snow'' series, with

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《香雪系列》 (2020) * ''

, Being a Better Me'', with

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《李娜，做更好的自己》 (2020) * ''Footprints'', with Xue Tao) 《脚印》 (2020) * ''Shulin's Grandpa'', with Matt Goodfellow 《舒琳的外公》 (Otter-Barry, 2021) * ''The Lost Child'', with Jin Bo 《迷路的小孩》 (2021) * ''The Visible Sounds''. Picture book, with

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, tr. Filip Selucky (UCLan, 2021) * ''Rope'', with Cao Wenxuan) 《绳子》 (2022) * ''Have You Seen The Magpie?'', with Dai Yun (2022)

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yu, Rong Living people Chinese children's book illustrators Chinese children's writers Chinese women children's writers Chinese women children's book illustrators Alumni of the Royal College of Art Year of birth missing (living people) Nanjing Normal University alumni 21st-century Chinese illustrators Chinese art educators