Cho Eunyoung (1981)
# Cho Eunyoung (1981)

Cho Eunyoung (born 23 July 1981 in Seoul) is a South Korean picture book author. She received the Grand Prix at the 2011 Bratislava Illustration Biennale (BIB) and the 2013 Japan Picture Book Awards Translation Award.

## Life

Cho Eunyoung is a South Korean picture book writer, born in Seoul in 1981. She majored in visual information design at Ewha Women’s University. She also studied illustration at the Illustration School of Korea (Hills), and received a master's degree in illustration from the University of Seoul. Her best-known works include Run Toto! and Are We Still Friends?. She won the in 2011 and won the Japan Picture Book Awards Translation Award in 2014 with Run Toto!

## Career

Her best-known book is Run Toto!, which won the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) Grand Prix in 2011, as well as the Japan Picture Book Awards Translation Award in 2014. She is an active participant in the Vacance Project. is an independent publishing project formed by a group of 15 Korean picture book authors in 2019, led by Suzy Lee, with the aim of nurturing artistic attempts that are not easily accommodated by the conventional picture book market. Under the aegis of the Vacance Project, Cho Eunyoung has published The Sun and the Moon (2019), Squid (2020), How I Wish to Draw (2021), Black Friday (2022), and What's in the Bundle?

## Style

Cho Eunyoung employs a wide variety of techniques, such as free drawing using charcoal and ink, detailed scratching using film paper, stamping using engraving ink, and drawing directly on paper using rollers of various widths. Her best-known book, Run Toto!, is a realistic picture book set against the background of a racecourse, and depicts how it appears to the innocent gaze of a child. The diverse faces of the racegoers, the shape of the horses, the dynamic races, and the galloping racehorses all emphasize realism and transformation, with split and deformed pages. Her 2020 book, Are We Still Friends?, employed open-spine binding, its illustrations done entirely with ink, roller, and brush. Unlike Run Toto!, which made use of a wide spectrum of colors and techniques, it emphasizes ink lines, with variations in line thickness rendered with rollers.

## Awards

* 2014 Japan Picture Book Awards Translation Award
* 2011 Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) Grand Prix Award

## Activities

* 2023 Selected for The BRAW Amazing Bookshelf at the Bologna Book Fair
* 2016 Solo exhibition at the Chihiro Art Museum, Japan
* 2013 Member of the BIB jury
* 2012 Contributed the cover for the Bologna Book Fair Illustrators Annual

## Works

Illustration

* 2021 The Words I Want to Hear Most (Illustrated by Cho Eunyoung / Written by Huh Eun-mi), Flying Star, ISBN 979-11-88574-22-3
* 2016 I Love Vegetables (Illustrated by Cho Eunyoung / Written by Lee Rinhae), Gilbut Kids, ISBN 978-89-5582-367-7
* 2015 Seashell Meadow (Illustrated by Cho Eunyoung / Written by Chae In-sun), Sigong Junior, ISBN 978-89-527-8151-2
* 2012 Now is the Best Time (Illustrated by Cho Eunyoung / Written by Woo Soon-gyo), Woongjin Junior, ISBN 978-89-01-15098-7
* 2006 Welcome, Joy (Illustrated by Cho Eunyoung / Written by Chae In-seon), Aji Books, ISBN 89-958752-2-4

Text and Illustration

* 2022 Are We Still Friends? (Written and illustrated by Cho Eunyoung), Sakyejul, ISBN 979-11-6094-977-3
* 2010 Run Toto! (Written and illustrated by Cho Eunyoung) Borim, ISBN 978-89-433-0817-9
   * 2013 La course, Éditions MeMo, France
   * 2013 Hashire Toto!, Bunka Gakuen Bunka Shuppankyoku, Japan
