Kiyo Tanaka

Kiyo Tanaka is a Japanese picture book author and etcher.

Biography

She was born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1972. She was very fond of drawing from an early age. She studied oil painting and print making at Tama [Art University] Painting Department.
In 1995, she won the UNICEF Award at the Bologna [Children's Book Fair]. Her first children's picture book Mizutama no Chiwawa was published in 1997. Since then she has worked mainly on children's picture books including Okiniiri, Obakega kowai Kotoko-chan, Tomato-san, Nee dakko shite and The Little One. She won the "Purple Island Award" at the Nami Island International [Picture Book Illustration Concours] in South Korea, the 25th Grand Prize in 2020 and the 68th for The Little One.