The Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award (CICLA) is one of the oldest literary awards in China. Founded in 1981 by Shanghai-born children's literature writer, translator and educator Chen Bochui (1906-1997), the award has been an international award in 2014 with the participation of a wide range of judges from various fields, including children's literature creators, critics and scholars.
The 33rd Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award received a large number of entries, a total of 108 kinds of text books and 347 kinds of picture books from 28 countries and regions. Recently, the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award Council announced the list of this year's jury, and these experts and scholars in the field of children's literature at home and abroad will discuss and select the winners of the 2021 Annual Book (Text) Award and the Annual Book (Picture Book) Award.
The 33rd Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Awards will be judged by Chinese writer and poet Gao Hongbo, who will lead eight literature and picture book experts from China, the United Kingdom and the United States to make decisions.
List of the 33rd Jury
Chairman of the Jury
Gao Hongbo (China)
He is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, director of the Children's Literature Committee, poet, and essayist
He is a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, and director of the Children's Literature Committee of the China Writers Association. He once served as a member of the Party Group of the China Writers Association, the secretary of the Secretariat, the chairman of the China Literature Foundation, and the editor-in-chief of the Poetry Journal. Representative works include the prose collection "Whisper", the poem "I Think", "Gao Hongbo Anthology" (eight volumes) and "Gao Hongbo Wencun" (nine volumes), etc., the works have won the China Publishing Government Award, the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, the "Five Ones" Project Award, the National Book Award, etc., the picture book "Happy Pig Bobofei Series" has sold more than one million copies, and the copyright has been exported to France, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries.
Jury member
Leonard P. S. Marcus (USA)
Children's book historian and critic
Leonard P. S. Marcus is one of the most influential scholars in the history of children's literature in the world today, writing books for many children's books and their creators. He has authored more than 25 award-winning books, including Dear Genius: A Collection of Letters from Ursula Nordstrom, Golden Legends: How Golden Children's Books Win Children's Hearts, Why Picture Books Matter, Maurice Sandak's Art World, and A Lifetime with Painting: A Biography of Helen Oxonbury.
Leonard regularly wrote book reviews for The New York Times and Clarion Book Publishing Company, and for 21 years as a book critic for Parenting magazine. He is a founding trustee of the Ery Carr Art Museum and has curated numerous exhibitions, including the iconic exhibition ABC: Why Children's Books Matter at the New York Public Library.
Leonard has served on the new York Times Children's Book of the Year Awards four times, and his other awards include the National Book Award, the Bologna Children's Book Fair Best Children's Book Award, the SM Foundation Spain Illustration Award, the SM Foundation Spain's Ibero-American Illustration Award, the Academic Asia Book Award (Chairman of the Jury), and the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award.
Yu Rong (UK)
Picture book writer and illustrator
A Chinese-British national, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Nanjing Normal University and a master's degree from the Royal College of Art, majoring in visual communication and design. Her picture books have been published in the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, France, Sweden, New Zealand and other countries. He studied under sir Quentin Blake, a renowned British children's illustrator. Yu Rong's style of work combines traditional Chinese paper-cutting and pencil line drawing to make the original flat paper-cutting more vivid and three-dimensional, and also enrich the content of the illustration. Her work has won numerous awards internationally and nationally, including the Quentin Black Illustration Award in 1999, the Ferrio Publishing House Illustration Award in 1999, and the Sheila Robinson Painting Prize in 2000. "Myna like a Cloud" won the Golden Apple Award at the 24th Bratislava International Illustration Biennale (BIB). A Panda's Footprint won the American Library Association Award for Best Children's Book in 2007. "Smoke" won the 2015 Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award for Annual Book (Picture Book) Award, the Serbian International Book Fair Illustration Award, and the Nami Island International Children's Illustration Award in South Korea.
Li Donghua (China)
Writer of children's literature and vice president of Lu Xun Academy of Literature
Chongyang Jie was born in Gaomi, Shandong in 1971. Graduated from the Department of Chinese, Peking University. Vice Dean of Lu Xun College of Literature. He has published more than 30 novels such as "The Glory of Youth", "Fireworks", "Xiaoman" and other works, and has won awards such as the China Publishing Government Award, the 13th and 15th "Five One Project Awards" of the Central Propaganda Department, the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, the Wenjin Book Award, the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award and the Bingxin Children's Book Award. In 2017, he was selected as a cultural master of the Propaganda Department and a "four batches" of talents.
Lu Mei (China)
Editor-in-chief of Literature Daily, Literary Reviewer of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation
He is a director of the Shanghai Branch of the China Writers Association and a writer of children's literature, mainly writing about youth literature and essays. He is the author of "Freedom Like a Butterfly", "Endless Summer", "Letter from Heaven", "Dreamer Old Grace", "Hello, Childhood", "Goodbye, Mother-in-Law", "Time Is Coming" and so on. He has won the Nomination Award of the China Publishing Government Award, the Chen Bochui Children's Literature Award, the Bingxin Prose Award, the Bingxin Children's Book Award, the Bingxin Children's Literature New Works Award, the China Laureate Children's Book, the First Soochow Literature Award, etc. The novel "The Time Book of the Grid" won the 2014 German "White Crow Award". The novel "Flying in front of the falling leaves" was adapted into the film of the same name.
Li Lifang (China)
He is a critic of children's literature and a doctor of literature, the dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of the College of Literature of Lanzhou University
In 2006, he graduated from the College of Literature and Literature of Nankai University with a doctorate degree in literature. In 2014, he left the postdoctoral field of children's literature in the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University. He is a member of the Children's Literature Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and a member of the International Children's Literature Research Association (IRSCL). Member of the National Steering Committee on Postgraduate Education of Professional Degree in Chinese Language International Education. He is a member of the 13th Council of the Society for the Study of Modern Chinese Literature. Vice Chairman of Gansu Literary and Art Critics Association. Specializing in children's literature research for more than 20 years, he has made important achievements in the research on the history of criticism in early modern children's literature theory criticism in China, the case study of children's literature theory critics in the new era, the research on children's literature in western China, and the research on the works of Chinese and foreign contemporary children's literature writers, and has published 6 academic works of children's literature, published more than 70 academic papers on children's literature in academic journals at home and abroad, and published more than 70 commentaries in People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Literature and Art Daily, etc. He has presided over 2 projects of the National Social Science Foundation. He won the honorary titles of "The 16th Gansu Provincial College Young Teachers Becoming Talents Award", "The 11th Gansu Provincial Social Science Outstanding Achievements Second Prize", "Gansu Children's Literature Eight Jun" and other honorary titles. He has participated in international academic conferences on children's literature in Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, the United States, Sweden and other countries and published papers, which is an important new generation force in the field of children's literature theory criticism in China.
Sun Jianjiang (China)
He is a critic, scholar, writer and publisher of children's literature, and the president of the Chinese Fable Literature Research Association
He is the author of more than ten kinds of academic works such as "Introduction to Chinese Children's Literature in the Twentieth Century" and "TheOry of Fairy Tale Art Space", more than 40 kinds of works such as "Gourmet Hunting" and "Wind Chimes on trees", and more than 100 kinds of editors such as "One Hundred Years of Chinese Children's Literature". His works have won more than 30 national and national awards such as the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, the China Book Award, and the National Book Award Nomination Award. He has served as the final judge of the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award and the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award for many times.
Xiong Liang (China)
Children's literature, original picture book author and painter
Chinese original picture book pioneer, its picture book intention is rooted in traditional Chinese culture and oriental philosophy, the picture pays attention to the sense of line and ink color, expresses conciseness, innocence, has a unique sense of humor and poetry, can be easily understood by children, and even readers of different cultures; he is considered to be a representative figure of oriental picture book art in the world, with wide popularity and influence around the world, and the creative fields cover picture books, fairy tales, novels, dramas, poetry, contemporary ink paintings; representative works include "Xiong Liang Chinese Picture Book", "Little Stone Lion". Peking Opera Cat", "Walking with the Wind", "Twenty-Four Solar Terms", "Ranger Little Wooden Guest", "Nian and Boy". Xiong Liang was nominated for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014, becoming the first Chinese to enter the international Hans Christian Andersen Awards short list (illustrator) in 2018 and a nomination for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2020, the world's largest prize for children's and juvenile literature. Xiong Liang will once again be a candidate for the 2022 International Hans Christian Andersen Awards in China.
Zhang Hong (China)
Author of children's literature and founder of the Magical Children's Book Club
Senior news media person, senior editor, children's literature writer, founder of the "Magic Children's Book Club" of the new media platform for parent-child reading promotion, and 2018 Reading Lighting China's annual lighter.
He is the author of more than 10 fairy tales and novels such as "Pocket and Magic Little Aunt", "British Fairy Tale Map", "Happy Little Crayon", "Goldbeard and Red Sweater", "Hodge's Sick Horse", "E-Bane Girl", etc., and has translated more than 30 children's literatures and picture books, including works such as "Little Werewolf", "Picture Book Charlotte's Net", "A Day of Elementary School Bully", "My Dog is a Tyrannosaurus Rex", "100 Dreams of a Pencil", including works by Tommy Wenger, Michael Möpperg, Quentin Black, David Shannon, etc. He has won the Chen Bochui Children's Literature Award and three excellent works awards, the Song Qingling Children's Literature Award, the Bingxin Children's Book Award and other children's literature awards. He has also won the honors of "Shanghai Top Ten Cultural Newcomers" and "Shanghai Children's Literature New Ten".
About the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award
The Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award (CICLA) is one of the longest-running literary awards in China and an important award supported by the Shanghai International Children's Book Fair in China. Founded in 1981 by Shanghai-based children's literature writer, translator and educator Chen Bochui (1906-1997), the award recognizes children's literature writers, illustrators and related children's literature professionals who have made outstanding achievements and contributions to the cause of children's literature in China and the world. Officially promoted to an international children's literature award since 2014, it aims to promote international cultural exchanges, encourage beautiful and inspiring children's content creation, and promote healthy reading habits in China.
What makes the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award special is its comprehensive selection method. It has established awards for two different types of literary works, including the Book of the Year (Text) Award and the Book of the Year (Picture Book) Award. At the same time, the Writer of the Year Award and the Special Contribution Award have been established to recognize people who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of children's literature worldwide.
The Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award is sponsored by the Shanghai Press and Publication Bureau, the Shanghai Baoshan District People's Government and the Professional Committee of the Chen Bochui Children's Literature Fund, and supported by the Shanghai Children's Book Fair.
Source: Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award
Editor: Ge Jinghong