几米的英文介绍

JimmyLiao(ChineseName:LaoFu-Bin,廖福彬,bornNovember15,1958)isawell-knownTaiwaneseillustratoraswellasapicturebookwriter.ThenameJimmyishisEnglishfirstnamewhichbroughtabouthis(phonetic)Chinesepenname,几米.

AftergraduatingfromChineseCultureUniversityinwhichhemajoredinart,Jimmyworkedinanadvertisingcompanyfortwelveyears,andthenheworkedasanillustratorfornewspapersandmagazines.[1]In1998hispicturebooksSecretsInTheForest(森林里的秘密)andAFishWithASmile(微笑的鱼)werepublishedinTaiwan.Thesetwobooksearnedhimseveralbookawardsandwereregardedas“TheBestChildren’sBooks”inseveralTaiwanesenewspapers,suchasTheChinaTimes,MinShengBao,andUnitedDailyNews.HispicturebookAChanceofSunshine(向左走,向右走),whichwaspublishedin1999,wasvoted“OneoftheTenMostInfluentialBooks”bytheTaiwanesebookstorechain,Kingstones.Jimmy’sbookshavebeentranslatedintodozensoflanguagesandsoldaroundtheworld.[2]Hisbookshavealsobeenadaptedfortheater,movie,television,andanimation.[1][3]Manyofhischaractersfromhispicturebookshavebeenappliedtothemakingofdollsandpicturesonotherauthorizedproducts,notablyleatherpurses.

Hispicturesarecharacterizedbytheiruseofstriking,boldcoloursanddepictcentralfiguresthatoftenappearsmallintheforeground,suggestingtheviewpointofachildinthewide,sometimessinister,world,ortohintatloneliness.