REGISTRATION FOR THE YUSUF GAJAH ILLUSTRATION AWARD 2024 IS OPENING SOON.
PENYERTAAN UNTUK ANUGERAH ILUSTRASI YUSUF GAJAH 2024 AKAN DIBUKA TIDAK LAMA LAGI.
KLIK UNTUK MELIHAT HASIL ILUSTRASI PEMENANG ANUGERAH YUSUF GAJAH 2023
A picture is worth a thousand words.
We believe that illustrations in children’s books are important in evoking a child’s creative and limitless imagination.
Illustration is all about the art of storytelling.
About creating something new. It’s about the reader, and it’s also about you. It’s about what imagination you want your reader to have, and what action you want your reader to take at the end. To begin this creative and colourful journey, we present you the Yusof Gajah Illustration Award at our very first Selangor International Book Fair.
YUSOF GAJAH 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.
His popular picture book, ‘The Real Elephant‘ 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‘ which continues to attract both children and adults.
Yusof Gajah’s The Real Elephant won the Grand Prize of the Noma Concours in Tokyo in 1996.
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.
WINNERS OF THE YUSUF GAJAH ILLUSTRATION AWARD 2023
YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY
(13-17 YEARS OLD)
ADULT CATEGORY
(18 YEARS OLD AND ABOVE)
