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Kyung Hye-won

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Kyung Hye-won
Occupationillustrator, picture book author
LanguageKorean
GenrePicture 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

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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

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  • 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
  • 2020 The Candle Book (Woongjin Junior)ISBN 9788901245294
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2017 Dinosaur X-Ray (Hanlim)ISBN 9788970949635
  • 2016 Elevator (Sigong Junior)ISBN 9788952782588
  • 2014 Special Friends (Sigong Junior)ISBN 9788952780676

Activities

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  • 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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b "Bigger Than You by Hyewon Kyung". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  3. ^ "Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong". Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  4. ^ "Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong". Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  5. ^ "Mighty Wonders, 강렬하고 신비로운 힘". stibee.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  6. ^ "www.timesisa.com". www.timesisa.com. Retrieved 2023-06-27.[dead link]
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