Thé Tjong-Khing facts for kids
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Thé Tjong-Khing
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Thé Tjong-Khing in 1978
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| Born | August 4, 1933 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄭宗瓊 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhèng Zōngqióng |
| Hokkien POJ | Tēⁿ Chong-khêng |
Thé Tjong-Khing (Chinese: 鄭宗瓊; born August 4, 1933) is a children's book illustrator based in the Netherlands.
He was born in Purworedjo, Java, Dutch East Indies to a large Chinese Indonesian family. As a child he was interested in the Tarzan comic strips of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tjong-Khing attended the Seni Rupa (arts) institute in Bandung. He came to the Netherlands in 1956 and started as a draftsman at the Toonder Studio's, initially as a volunteer and later as an employee.
In addition to his work on Oliver B. Bumble comics, he contributed to the magazine Tina and created Arman & Ilva. In 1970 he was asked to provide illustration for Miep Diekmann's children's book. He became a freelance illustrator providing illustration to many children's book authors such as van Guus Kuijer, Els Pelgrom, Sylvia Vanden Heede en Dolf Verroen.
Tjong-Khing won the Gouden Penseel (Golden Brush) award three times, and in 2005 won the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs for his book Waar is de taart? (Where is the cake?), a picturebook without text. For this he also won the Zilveren Penseel and was nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis in 2007. In 2010 he won the Max Velthuijs-prijs (Max Velthuijs Prize).
