The Lost Thing animation recently won an Oscar for the best animated short film. The awad described Shaun as 'a masterly visually storyteller'. Shaun is the winner of the 2011 Astrid Lindgren prize, the world's richest children's literature award.
He is currently directing a short film with Passion Pictures Australia his most recently published book is Tales from Outer Suburbia. Shaun has also worked as a theatre designer, and worked as a concept artist for the films Horton Hears a Who and Pixar's WALL-E. Books such as The Rabbits, The Red Tree, The Lost Thing and the acclaimed wordless novel The Arrival have been widely translated throughout Europe, Asia and South America, and enjoyed by readers of all ages. Shaun began drawing and painting images for science fiction and horror stories in small-press magazines as a teenager, and has since become best known for illustrated books that deal with social, political and historical subjects through surreal, dream-like imagery. He graduated from the University of WA in 1995 with joint honours in Fine Arts and English Literature, and currently works full time as a freelance artist and author in Melbourne. In school he became known as the 'good drawer' which partly compensated for always being the shortest kid in every class.
It will all be OK.Shaun Tan was born in 1974 and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In the meantime, give a cup of kindness to your creative soul and get yourself this book for the days when the clouds roll in. This video shows the mixture of the graphic novel 'The Red Tree' written by Shaun Tan and the song 'This Land' by Hans Zimmer.The story has a hopeful message. So take heart, creators everywhere! Keep going. It's all true, but it's not how it all ends. Writing sometimes makes me feel like this:Īnd as the book says, sometimes you just don't know what you are supposed to do, The Red Tree is like a playground for the imagination in which Shaun Tan, the author and illustrator, empowers each reader to create meaning as they. I love this book, love it, probably because it speaks to the lows I sometimes feel about where publishing is headed, and what kinds of books seem to make it on to the shelves these days, and how my own projects are going.
But it is about hope, and if you want to keep doing creative things for any length of time, whatever they may be, you have to hope in things unseen, no matter how improbable it all looks from the outside. Yes, it is a children's book, and no, it isn't about writing. The Red Tree, by Australian illustrator Shaun Tan, is is one of my favorite books of all time.
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