Shaun Tan

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Shaun Tan

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in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
January 01, 1974

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Shaun Tan (born 1974) is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books. After freelancing for some years from a studio at Mt. Lawley, Tan relocated to Melbourne, Victoria in 2007. Tan was the Illustrator in Residence at the University of Melbourne's Department of Language Literacy and Arts Education for two weeks through an annual Fellowship offered by the May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust. 2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Artist.
2011 he won his first Oscar in the Category Best Short Animated Film for his work The Lost Thing


Average rating: 4.29 · 30,071 ratings · 3,754 reviews · 29 distinct works · Similar authors
The Arrival
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 16,240 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions
Tales from Outer Suburbia
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3,247 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions
Lost and Found: Three by Sh...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 2,487 ratings — published 2011
The Red Tree
4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 1,570 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions
The Lost Thing
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 1,562 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions
Eric
4.53 of 5 stars 4.53 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
The Bird King and Other Ske...
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
The Rabbits
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 1,337 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
The Haunted Playground
3.08 of 5 stars 3.08 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
Sketches from a Nameless La...
4.79 of 5 stars 4.79 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”
Shaun Tan

“So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing....”
Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing

“The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.”
Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing

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