Provided by Wikipedia Shaun Tan (born 15 January 1974) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for ''The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated short film adaptation of the 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. He also wrote and illustrated the books ''The Red Tree'' (2001) and ''The Arrival'' (2006).
Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense", Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.
