Kyung Hye-won

Kyung Hye-won( ko, 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''.

Career

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. ''Bigger than You'' (2018) was first published by HarperCollins, an American publisher, and then exported back to Korea.

Works

* 2022 ''Me, the T-Rex, and Christmas'' (Munhakdongne)
* 2022 ''My Big, Secret Friend'' (Changbi)
* 2021 ''I'm a Lion'' (BIR)
* 2020 ''Thump, Thump'' (Sigong Junior)
** 2022 冬冬 (Kanghao,Taiwan)
* 2020 ''The Candle Book'' (Woongjin Junior)
** 2021 蟠燭書 (Kanghao, Taiwan)
* 2020 ''Go Back Inside the Egg!'' (Hanlim)
** 2021 到你的劉壽負裡! (Kanghao, Taiwan)
* 2019 ''I'm Taller Than You!'' (BIR)
** 2020 化你更高! (Kanghao, Taiwan)
** 2020 ''Je suis plus grand que toi!'' (Rue du Monde, France)
* 2018 ''Bigger Than You'' (HarperCollins)
** 2018 ''Bigger Than You'' (Hallim, Korea) from the USA original ''Bigger Than You''
* 2017 ''Just One Bite'' (Hanlim)
** 2018 給我吃一口! (Kanghao, Taiwan)
* 2017 ''Dinosaur X-Ray'' (Hanlim)
** 2018 恐龍X光 (Kanghao, Taiwan)
** 2020 ''L’hôpital des dinosaures'' (Éditions Versant Sud,Belgium)
** 2020 ''ДИНОЗАВРЫ НА РЕНТТЕН!'' (Rosman,Russia)
* 2016 ''Elevator'' (Sigong Junior)
** 2016 ''Elevador'' (Océano Travesía, Mexico)
** 2017 電梯 (Kanghao, Taiwan)
* 2014 ''Special Friends'' (Sigong Junior)
** 2018 特別的朋友們 (Kanghao, Taiwan)

Activities

* 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
* 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
* 2022 Collaborated in the ''Mighty Wonders'' exhibition with ceramic artists
* 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)

References

External links

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* http://bookstopliterary.com/illustrators/hyewon-kyung.html
* https://klwave.or.kr/klw/authors/201242/authorsView.do
* https://k-book.or.kr/user/authors/authors_view?idx=2136

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Living people
21st-century South Korean artists
South Korean children's book illustrators
South Korean illustrators
South Korean women children's writers
People from Suwon
Year of birth missing (living people)