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(a.k.a.
Tan
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Born: ca.1974 Fremantle, Western Australia
Gender: Male
Heritage: Malaysian
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Shaun Tan, the son of a Malaysian-Chinese father and an Anglo-Irish mother, is a multi-award winning artist and writer who currently lives and works in Melbourne [2007]. As a child growing up in Perth, Shaun enjoyed reading, writing and illustrating poems and stories; and spent a lot of time drawing dinosaurs, robots and space ships.He was impressed by a book of horror poems called The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight, written by Jack Prelutsky and illustrated 'in these creepy but also amusing pe....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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Last amended:
18 Jan 2010