Yu Rong

Yu Rong (郁蓉) is a multi award-winning Chinese illustrator of children's picture books, especially known for her use of papercutting artwork.

Biography

Born in China, Yu Rong first trained as a primary school teacher, then studied for a BA in Chinese Painting and Contemporary Art Design (Nanjing Normal University's Art College) and an MA in Communication and Design (Royal College of Art, London). She now lives near Cambridge, UK.

Awards, honours, exhibitions

• 1999 - The Folio Society Illustration Awards
• 1999 - The Quentin Blake Award for Narrative Illustration
• 2000 - RCA Graduating Students Book Awards, RCA Final Degree Show
• 2000 - RCA Sheila Robinson Drawing Prize
• 2001&2002 - Contemporary Decorative Arts Exhibition, Sotheby's
• 2004 - BookTrust Newcomer - for A Lovely Day for Amelia Goose
• 2008 - American Library Association (ALA) - Notable Children's Book - for Tracks of a Panda
• 2013 - Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) - Golden Apple Award - for Free as a Cloud
• 2013 - China's 8th National Book Design Exhibition - Best book in children's book category - for Free as a Cloud
• 2013 - Shanghai International Children's Bookfair Golden Pinwheel Awards Grand Jury Prize and Reader's Choice Prize - for Free as a Cloud
• 2013 - China's Most Beautiful Book - for Free as a Cloud
• 2013 - The 8th National Book Design Exhibition, Best Book in Children's Book Category - for Free as a Cloud
• 2015 - Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award - best picture book - for Smoke
• 2015 - Chinese Original Picture Books Top 10 - first prize - for Summer
• 2016 - Serbia International Bookfair - Illustration Award - for Smoke
• 2016 - Shenzhen Children's Library Top 10 My Favorite Children's Books - for Summer
• 2016 - The White Ravens selection of International Children's and Youth Literature - for Summer
• 2017 - Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours 2017 Purple Island Award - for Smoke
• 2017 - Image of the Book, Best Illustration Moscow - for I am Hua Mulan
• 2017 - Chinese Original Picture Books Top 10 - first prize - for I am Hua Mulan
• 2018 - The Ninth National Book Design Exhibition - for Summer
• 2018 - Chinese Picture Book Time Award Golden Prize - for I am Hua Mulan
• 2018 - The Ninth National Book Design Exhibition, Children's Book Brown Award - for I am Hua Mulan
• 2019 - Chinese Original Picture Books Top 10 - for Li Na, Being a Better Me
• 2021 - Ten Best National Children's Books - for The Lost Child
• 2021 - IRead Best 100 Picture Books - for The Lost Child
• 2022 - The Seventeenth Wenjin Book Award, National Library - for Footprints
• 2022 - Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist - for Shu Lin's Grandpa
• 2022 - The White Ravens selection of International Children's and Youth Literature - for Bread Years
• 2022 - Xinhui Best Picture Books of the Year - for Have You Seen The Magpie?
• 2022 - IBBY Selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities - for The Visible Sounds
• 2023 - Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration, shortlisted - for The Visible Sounds
• 2023 - UKLA Book Prize,

Works

• A Lovely Day for Amelia Goose (2004)
• Tracks of a Panda, with Nick Dowson (2007)
• Smoke, with Cao Wenxuan, tr. Duncan Poupard 《烟》 (2015)
• Snowflake in My Pocket, with Rachel Bright (2016)
• Free as a Cloud, with Bai Bing 《云朵一样的八哥》 (2017)
• I am Hua Mulan, with Qin Wenjun 《我是花木兰》 (Reycraft, 2019)
• Summer, with Cao Wenxuan, tr. Yan Ding) 《夏天》 (Macmillan, 2019)
• Dou Dou the Panda series, with Gao Hongbo, Jin Bo and Bai Bing 《熊猫逗逗系列》 (2019)
• Sweet Snow series, with Tie Ning 《香雪系列》 (2020)
• Li Na, Being a Better Me, with A Jia 《李娜，做更好的自己》 (2020)
• Footprints, with Xue Tao) 《脚印》 (2020)
• Shulin's Grandpa, with Matt Goodfellow 《舒琳的外公》 (Otter-Barry, 2021)
• The Lost Child, with Jin Bo 《迷路的小孩》 (2021)
• The Visible Sounds. Picture book, with Yin Jianling, tr. Filip Selucky (UCLan, 2021) ISBN 9781912979790
• Rope, with Cao Wenxuan) 《绳子》 (2022)
• Have You Seen The Magpie?, with Dai Yun (2022)