Suzy Lee

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In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
Lee Suzy
Children's literature, picture books, artists’ books
Notable works
  • Mirror, Wave, Shadow
  • Open This Little Book, Lines
Website
www.suzyleebooks.com

Suzy Lee (Korean: 이수지; born February 9, 1974) is a Korean picture-book illustrator and author. She is critically acclaimed as an artist who explores the pleasures and tensions that lie between reality and fantasy. She is also known for her remarkable achievements in the field of wordless picture books, or silent books.[1] She gained global attention for her three works – Mirror (2003), Wave (2008), and Shadow (2010), known collectively as "The Border Trilogy" – using the center binding of the pages of a book as a means to create a narrative crossing the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Wave and Shadow were respectively named by The New York Times as Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008 and 2010.[2] Wave was also awarded the gold medal for Original Art by the Society of Illustrators in 2008.[3] In 2016, Suzy Lee was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award,[4] regarded as the Nobel Prize for children's literature, an award which she received in 2022.[5] Lee has received a number of other prestigious awards from around the world including the FNLIJ[6] Award Luís Jardim for the Best Book without Text in 2008 and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature in 2013.

Biography

Lee was born and raised in Seoul. She received a Bachelor of Fine arts in Painting from Seoul National University in 1996. She started out her professional career as an illustrator, but she soon became fascinated with picture books upon encountering the world of artists’ books. She decided to pursue graduate studies, receiving her Master's in Book Arts from Camberwell College of Arts in London, England in 2001. The following year, she published her first book, Alice in Wonderland, which was also her final graduation project.[7] Since then, she has published over thirty books.[8] Lee organized projects such as the leader of the artist collective, Vacance Project,[9] and illustrating Dream of Becoming Water, a book interpretation of a song by the same title by Korean singer-songwriter Lucid Fall.[10]

Career

Suzy Lee made her debut as a picture-book artist with Alice in Wonderland, which was the final project for her master's program. She participated in the

Library of Congress National Book Festival.[14] Later in the same year, she was honored with the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Open This Little Book.[15] In 2016, she was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in recognition of the literary and aesthetic innovation qualities of her works. She received the award in 2022.[5]In 2019, she received the 60th Korean Publishing Culture Award[16] and selected for the IBBY Honour List for River,[17] a book inspired by a personal story of her dog.[18] She has founded Hintoki Press,[19]
an independent publishing house, through which she has directly published experimental works such as Sim Cheong and The Magic Jar. She also leads the project group, Vacance.

Style

For Suzy Lee, the charm of picture-books lies in their power as a medium to convey the simplest truths in a simple yet refined manner. She uses a wide variety of materials from pen, pencil,

print-making, depending on the book she is working on. She particularly enjoys using charcoal.[20] Suzy Lee's books often the relationship between fantasy and reality.[21]

Awards

Works

Collaborations with other authors

References

  1. S2CID 152013416
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  2. ^ "Best Illustrated Children's Books 2008 – The New York Times > Books > Slide Show > Slide 7 of 11". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  3. ^ "The Society of Illustrators: 2008 Original Art Winners". www.societyillustrators.org. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  4. ^ "Shortlist for the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Awards". www.ibby.org. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c Ga-young, Park (March 22, 2022). "Korean illustrator Suzy Lee wins prestigious Andersen Award". The Korea Herald. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  6. ^ "Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil". fnlij.org.br. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  7. ^ "Alice in Wonderland".
  8. ^ "Suzy Lee Books:: about Suzy Lee". www.suzyleebooks.com. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  9. ^ "vacance project – Home". sites.google.com. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  10. ^ "Suzy Lee Books :: Bookworks :: water". www.suzyleebooks.com. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  11. ^ "Suzy Lee's Animal World – Rabbits, Black Bird and The Zoo". Archived from the original on April 18, 2011.
  12. ^ ""The Border Trilogy" EXHIBITION OPENING at MAMBO". Archived from the original on March 12, 2012.
  13. ^ ""The Border Trilogy" EXHIBITION and Workshop"". Archived from the original on March 17, 2012.
  14. ^ Cavna, Michael (September 19, 2013). "National Book Festival 2013: Poster creator Suzy Lee wanted to reflect 'everything you can do with books'". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  15. ^ "2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Awards for Picture Book Honor". Archived from the original on May 31, 2013.
  16. hankookilbo
    . December 27, 2019.
  17. IBBY
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  18. ^ "Suzy Lee Books :: Bookworks :: River, the Black Dog". www.suzyleebooks.com. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  19. ^ "Hintoki Press (@hintokipress)". www.instagram.com. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  20. ^ "Suzy Lee Books :: News & Miscellanies".
  21. ^ Kwon, Mee-yoo (December 16, 2011). "Suzy Lee explores beyond borders in books". The Korea Times.
  22. ^ Lee, Suzy. "Open This Little Book: Illustrator Suzy Lee's 2013 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech". The Horn Book. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013.
  23. ^ "Lines". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on September 5, 2017.
  24. ISBN 978-0-8118-7280-5
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  25. ^ "Shadow". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on October 1, 2010.
  26. ISBN 978-19-336052-8-9
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  27. ^ "Mirror". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on May 1, 2010.
  28. ISBN 978-88-87942-27-9
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  29. ^ "My Books". www.patzietlowmiller.com. Retrieved April 28, 2022.
  30. ^ "The Yulu Linen". frankfurtrights.com. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  31. ^ "Dream of Becoming Water_Lucid Fall and Suzy Lee". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on December 18, 2021. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  32. ^ "This Beautiful Day". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017.
  33. ISBN 9781481441391
    . Retrieved December 15, 2020.

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