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Pei-Yun Yu
游珮芸
Graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University with a Ph.D. in Humanities from Ochanomizu University in Japan. She is currently a professor and the director of the Graduate Institute of Children’s Literature at National Taitung University. She has translated over 170 children’s books. Her publications include Children’s Culture in Taiwan During the Japanese Colonial Period and Between Movement and Stillness: The “Grammar” of Hayao Miyazaki’s Animations. In collaboration with Jian-Xin Zhou, she co-authored the four-volume comic series Son of Formosa, which has won numerous domestic and international awards and has been sold in eight foreign languages.
Highlights
Son of Formosa 1
來自清水的孩子1
Comics / All Ages
In the 1930s, under Japanese rule in Shimizu, Kunlin grew up surrounded by nursery rhymes and picture books. As war drew near, with parades, air raids, and conscription, no one could remain unaffected. After the war ended, he thought he had finally reached a stable life. However, an even greater darkness awaited him…
Author: Pei-Yun Yu
Illustrator: Jian-Xin Zhou
Publisher: Slowork Publishing
ISBN: 9789869857307
162 pages|17 x 23 cm
Rights Contact: Meng-Ying Hsieh (Bardon-Chinese Media Agency)
mengying@bardonchinese.com
★Rights sold: Japanese, French, Arabic, English, German, Korean, Italian, and Lithuanian.
★Awards:
2021 The White Ravens (Germany)
2021 TIBE Book Prize (Taiwan)
2021 Golden Tripod Awards (Taiwan)
2021 Golden Comic Awards (Taiwan)
2024 Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique (France)
2024 Freeman Book Awards (USA)
2024 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize (USA)
2024 CALA Annual Best Book Award (USA)
2024 Litproms Best List for Spring (Germany)
2024 The Max & Moritz Prize (Germany)
★The animation adaptation rights have been sold
★Adapted into a children’s play.
Son of Formosa 2
來自清水的孩子2
Comics / All Ages
In the 1950s, as Taiwan was shrouded in the White Terror, Kunlin was arrested for participating in a high school study group. He and other political prisoners were transported by ship to Green Island, becoming “newborns” to be reformed by the government. Torture, intimidation, labor, and indoctrination marked the ten years of Kunlin’s youth, while also taking away the person he loved most…
Author: Pei-Yun Yu
Illustrator: Jian-Xin Zhou
Publisher: Slowork Publishing
ISBN: 9789869857314
183 pages|17 x 23 cm
Rights Contact: Meng-Ying Hsieh (Bardon-Chinese Media Agency)
mengying@bardonchinese.com
★Rights sold: Japanese, French, Arabic, English, German, Korean, Italian, and Lithuanian.
★Awards:
2021 The White Ravens (Germany)
2021 TIBE Book Prize (Taiwan)
2021 Golden Tripod Awards (Taiwan)
2021 Golden Comic Awards (Taiwan)
2024 Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique (France)
2024 Freeman Book Awards (USA)
2024 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize (USA)
2024 CALA Annual Best Book Award (USA)
2024 Litproms Best List for Spring (Germany)
2024 The Max & Moritz Prize (Germany)
★The animation adaptation rights have been sold
★Adapted into a children’s play.
Son of Formosa 3
來自清水的孩子3
Comics / All Ages
After being released from prison, Kunlin worked as a manga translator and editor for a publishing house, witnessing the rise of Taiwan’s domestic comic industry to its peak. In 1966, he founded the children’s magazine Prince and helped the Hongye Little League team create a legendary record. However, years of hard work were washed away by two autumn typhoons…
Author: Pei-Yun Yu
Illustrator: Jian-Xin Zhou
Publisher: Slowork Publishing
ISBN: 9789869857338
176 pages|17 x 23 cm
Rights Contact: Meng-Ying Hsieh (Bardon-Chinese Media Agency)
mengying@bardonchinese.com
★Rights sold: Japanese, French, Arabic, English, German, Korean, Italian, and Lithuanian.
★Awards:
2021 The White Ravens (Germany)
2021 TIBE Book Prize (Taiwan)
2021 Golden Tripod Awards (Taiwan)
2021 Golden Comic Awards (Taiwan)
2024 Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique (France)
2024 Freeman Book Awards (USA)
2024 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize (USA)
2024 CALA Annual Best Book Award (USA)
2024 Litproms Best List for Spring (Germany)
2024 The Max & Moritz Prize (Germany)
★The animation adaptation rights have been sold
★Adapted into a children’s play.
Son of Formosa 4
來自清水的孩子4
Comics / All Ages
In the 1970s, after Taiwan withdrew from the United Nations, its international standing became increasingly precarious. By the late 1980s, Taiwan began to transform into a democratic country. As Taiwan’s economy soared, Kunlin finally found success in his career. Yet, in the gradually liberalizing social atmosphere, the old stigma of being a “rebel” resurfaced once again…
Author: Pei-Yun Yu
Illustrator: Jian-Xin Zhou
Publisher: Slowork Publishing
ISBN: 9789860697322
168 pages|17 x 23 cm
Rights Contact: Meng-Ying Hsieh (Bardon-Chinese Media Agency)
mengying@bardonchinese.com
★Rights sold: Japanese, French, Arabic, English, German, Korean, Italian, and Lithuanian.
★Awards:
2021 The White Ravens (Germany)
2021 TIBE Book Prize (Taiwan)
2021 Golden Tripod Awards (Taiwan)
2021 Golden Comic Awards (Taiwan)
2024 Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique (France)
2024 Freeman Book Awards (USA)
2024 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize (USA)
2024 CALA Annual Best Book Award (USA)
2024 Litproms Best List for Spring (Germany)
2024 The Max & Moritz Prize (Germany)
★The animation adaptation rights have been sold
★Adapted into a children’s play.