1. Suzy Lee is a Korean picture-book illustrator and author.
12 Facts About Suzy Lee
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Suzy Lee is critically acclaimed as an artist who explores the pleasures and tensions that lie between reality and fantasy.
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Suzy Lee is known for her remarkable achievements in the field of wordless picture books, or silent books.
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In 2016, Suzy Lee was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, regarded as the Nobel Prize for children's literature, an award which she received in 2022.
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Suzy Lee received a Bachelor of Fine arts in Painting from Seoul National University in 1996.
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Suzy Lee started out her professional career as an illustrator, but she soon became fascinated with picture books upon encountering the world of artists' books.
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Suzy Lee decided to pursue graduate studies, receiving her Master's in Book Arts from Camberwell College of Arts in London, England in 2001.
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Suzy Lee organized projects such as the leader of the artist collective, Vacance Project, and illustrating Dream of Becoming Water, a book interpretation of a song by the same title by Korean singer-songwriter Lucid Fall.
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Suzy Lee made her debut as a picture-book artist with Alice in Wonderland, which was the final project for her master's program.
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Suzy Lee participated in the Bologna Children's Book Fair with a dummy of the book and pitched it to publishers, eventually signing a deal with the Italian publishing house Corraini Edizioni in 2002.
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Suzy Lee has founded Hintoki Press, an independent publishing house, through which she has directly published experimental works such as Sim Cheong and The Magic Jar.
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Suzy Lee uses a wide variety of materials from pen, pencil, charcoal, watercolor to acrylic, and different artistic practices including collage and print-making, depending on the book she is working on.