Kyung Hye-won
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Kyung Hye-won | |
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Occupation | illustrator, picture book author |
Language | Korean |
Genre | Picture books |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- 2022 Me, the T-Rex, and Christmas (Munhakdongne)ISBN 9788954692496
- 2022 My Big, Secret Friend (Changbi)ISBN 9788936455934
- 2021 I'm a Lion (BIR)ISBN 9788949102566
- 2020 Thump, Thump (Sigong Junior)ISBN 9791165793760
- 2022 冬冬 (Kanghao,Taiwan)ISBN 9786269606405
- 2020 The Candle Book (Woongjin Junior)ISBN 9788901245294
- 2021 蟠燭書 (Kanghao, Taiwan)ISBN 9789869949552
- 2020 Go Back Inside the Egg! (Hanlim)ISBN 9788970940113
- 2021 到你的劉壽負裡! (Kanghao, Taiwan)
- 2019 I'm Taller Than You! (BIR)ISBN 9788949105130
- 2020 化你更高! (Kanghao, Taiwan)ISBN 9789869694179
- 2020 Je suis plus grand que toi! (Rue du Monde, France)ISBN 9782355046315
- 2018 Bigger Than You (HarperCollins)[2]ISBN 9780062683120
- 2018 Bigger Than You (Hallim, Korea) from the USA original Bigger Than YouISBN 9788970945071
- 2017 Just One Bite (Hanlim)ISBN 9788970945750
- 2018 給我吃一口! (Kanghao, Taiwan)ISBN 9789869501460
- 2017 Dinosaur X-Ray (Hanlim)ISBN 9788970949635
- 2018 恐龍X光 (Kanghao, Taiwan)ISBN 9789869501484
- 2020 L’hôpital des dinosaures (Éditions Versant Sud,Belgium)ISBN 9782930938165
- 2020 ДИНОЗАВРЫ НА РЕНТТЕН! (Rosman,Russia)ISBN 9785353095873
- 2024 きょうりゅうレントゲンびょういん (PIE International, Japan)ISBN 9784756258915
- 2016 Elevator (Sigong Junior)ISBN 9788952782588
- 2016 Elevador (Océano Travesía, Mexico)ISBN 9786075277578
- 2017 電梯 (Kanghao, Taiwan)ISBN 9789869501422
- 2014 Special Friends (Sigong Junior)ISBN 9788952780676
- 2018 特別的朋友們 (Kanghao, Taiwan)ISBN 9789869501439
Activities
[edit]- 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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "2018Openbook 最佳童書》恐龍X光". Openbook閱讀誌 (in Traditional Chinese). 2018-11-30. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ^ a b "Bigger Than You by Hyewon Kyung". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ^ "Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong". Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ^ "Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong". Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ^ "Mighty Wonders, 강렬하고 신비로운 힘". stibee.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ^ "www.timesisa.com". www.timesisa.com. Retrieved 2023-06-27.[dead link]