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Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan in 2011 Shaun Tan (born 15 January 1974) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for ''The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated short film adaptation of the 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. He also wrote and illustrated the books ''The Red Tree'' (2001) and ''The Arrival'' (2006).

Born in Fremantle, Tan grew up in Perth. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel ''The Arrival'' won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. It also won the 2007 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award, and the 2006 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize.

Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense", Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.

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  1. by Tan, Shaun
    Published 2011
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  2. The bird king
    an artist's notebook
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    by Tan, Shaun
    Published 2013
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  3. by Tan, Shaun
    Published 2008
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  4. by Tan, Shaun
    Published 2019
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  5. by Tan, Shaun
    Published 2014
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  6. by Tan, Shaun
    Published 2007
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  7. The singing bones
    inspired by Grimms' fairy tales
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    by Tan, Shaun
    Published 2016
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  8. by Tan, Shaun
    Published 2018
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  9. Eric
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    by Tan, Shaun
    Published 2020
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  10. by Link, Kelly
    Published 2023
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  11. Guys Read
    Other Worlds 4
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    Published 2013
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