Tatsuro kiuchi biography samples
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The Refugee Crisis
Beaten nearly to death by militia in his home city of Baghdad, Abbas Khalaf left Iraq and traveled to Egypt on a tourist visa in September On his mission to find and prepare a safe place for his family, Khalaf left behind his wife and three young children and began an odyssey rife with risk and uncertainty.
During his long and complicated journey from Egypt to Israel and finally to the United States, Khalaf was robbed and shot at. He ran, terrified, through a hole in a border fence and into the night, a Muslim man in the dark Israeli desert. He feared for his family's safety. He moved from place to place, living among strangers and dependent upon the decisions of people he'd never met. He learned not one, but two new languages. He waited.
Patience was Khalaf's most important resource. It took years for the United Nations to recognize him as a refugee, and when he finally saw his wife and children again, it was They joined him in Pennsylvania'
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Editor’s Column
“The quality of the entries was high caliber. It was really difficult to judge,” says juror Marlene Szczesny. “The range of styles and artistic expression was so diverse—it was exciting to see.”
“I was overwhelmed with the caliber of work that had been submitted,” juror David Way says. “It’s always a humbling experience to look through so much amazing work, and then the guilt of being asked to judge it.”
“It’s always interesting to look at such a high quantity of work in a condensed amount of time,” says juror Martin Dupuis. “The overall impression was a bombardment of styles, personal vision and hard work.”
“Before judging the entries, I felt that, on the whole, the field of illustration was a bit stale—too much similar-looking work, too much superficial flat stuff,” juror Michael Ng says. “The winning entries reassured me that the outlook for creati
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Following up on my gods postabout Rafe Martin's Mysterious Tales of Japan, with pictures bygd Tatsuro Kiuchi, here are some samples of two of Kiuchi's other projects, both of which use a very different palette and approach from the more conventionally "painterly" (but very appealing) illustrations he created for that book.
The first group are from a series of color illustrations Kiuchi created to accompany Hikaru Okuizumi's novel The New Journey to the Center of the Earth, which was serialized in the Asahi Shimbunin
The whole set can be viewed as a Flicker slideshowonline.
At least one of Hikaru Okuizumi's other novels, The Stones Cry Out,has appeared in translation in the US, but this one apparently hasn't; in fact I'm not even sure it's been released in bound format in Japan. [Update: according to Tatsuro Kiuchi, the book has been published, but sadly without his illustrations.] The little information I've been able to vända up, from the Japanese Literature Publishing Pro