In 2011 alone, he won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council for his work in children's literature and also an Academy Award for his work on the film The Lost Thing, which won Best Short Film (animated) at the Oscars that year.Ĭicada is the first book that he has published and illustrated since the release of the Rules of Summer back in 2013. His work has received critical acclaim and brought him a lot of award recognition. Tan has collaborated with several other writers and has also published and illustrated a number of books on his own. Tan is an Australian artist, writer, illustrator and filmmaker who was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1974. This unusual book comes from Australian literary great, Shaun Tan. Cicada is a picture book targeted at teens and adults about a cicada dressed in a suit and a tie who is unappreciated and abused in his office job.
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