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Lin Lian-En
林廉恩

Lin Lian-En (林廉恩), born and raised in Taiwan. She worked as a character and art designer for an animation studio for over a year and has been drawing ever since leaving the studio. She specializes in creating with acrylic, water soluble crayons, and collages and likes drawing cities, monsters and plants. Her works are mostly about her current feelings and her life experiences. She won the American 3x3 Contemporary Award in 2014, Bologna Children Illustration Award in 2015 and 2018. She has also won the Bologna Ragazzi Award – Fiction Award for her picture book Home in 2021, becoming the first Taiwanese work to win the award. The picture book went on to win multiple domestic and international book awards, including the 2021 Golden Tripod Award and the 2021 TiBE Book Prize.

Works

Home
Winner of 2021 Ragazzi Award in Fiction! Rights sold: simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), world English “The pandemic has highlighted that home - whether we have one or not- is the most important place on earth. Lin Lian-En’s much-needed book Home is an exquisitely produced poetic consideration of space. From the rounded corners of the book to the cardboard covers and thoughtful understated use of endpapers, the book makes full use of material elements to create an inviting rich space that can be revisited endlessly… just like home. “ — Jury of Ragazzi Award   The sun goes up. The city wakes up. This is our home where we live in. There are mountains, seas and bridges that connect the cities and the villages. There are stories goes on one by one in the city. Some stories that you might know, some might be new that you've never expected and experienced. The stories are on quietly and noisily in the city every day.   A transcendent work by the awarding author Lin Lian-An. From the eye of a little bird, Lin masterfully combine the ordinary life and the beautiful landscape of the city.  
A Tree Falls in a Forest
English Translation Available   Mr. Darcy built his dream home on a pink tree in the forest and lives a quiet life every day. One day, there is an uninvited guest in the forest... A Tree Falls in the Forest is the latest work from Lian-En Lin, the winner of the 45th Golden Tripod Award and the 2021 Ragazzi Award in fiction.   What is “evil”? What is "good”? Darkness may exist anywhere in the world. Are we aware of it? Or maybe we just ignore it because the uninvited guests seem to be far away from us? In the past, Lian-En Lin was a person who didn’t care about social trends or issues, and only focused on her creations, just like Mr. Darcy or anyone else around us, living her own “quiet life” in solitude. However, after Lian-En became a mom, she started to change her mind, and began to pay attention to her surroundings and current affairs, hoping to leave a better world for her children to live in in the future.   "I hope that this graphic novel will become a seed that will germinate in the hearts of the readers, so that we can expand this concept to the society, change the idea of “sweeping the snow in front of our own door”, and turn our passion into action, and become a person that benefits oneself as well as others." -- Lin Lian-En   Size: 21 x 25 cm      
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