{"id":11552,"date":"2025-09-21T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sibf.my\/?page_id=11552"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:24:53","slug":"ygia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sibf.my\/ms\/ygia\/","title":{"rendered":"Yusof Gajah Illustration Award (YGIA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Submission period : 8 September - 8 November 2026<\/h5><\/header>

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YUSOF GAJAH<\/strong> has a deep and abiding love for children’s books and working with children. While a busy artist, he has managed to write and illustrate a number of books for children and have won the National Book Council Award for best picture book and the Noma Concours (ACCU) award for best illustrations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

His popular picture book, ‘The Real Elephant<\/strong>‘ was first published in Malay and has been translated into Japanese. Its enduring qualities have enabled an English publication in 2010. He has also created the ‘ELEPHABET<\/strong>‘ which continues to attract both children and adults.<\/p>\n

Yusof Gajah’s The Real Elephant won the Grand Prize of the Noma Concours in Tokyo in 1996.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story in brief: An elephant ate some fruits from a strange tree and found itself changing from one weird animal to another until finally it looked like a strange monster. It was regretful and wished it could become itself again.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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