Baek Hee-na
South Korean illustrator and author of children's books · South Korea · On the map · Artists · Born 1971 · age 54
Baek Hee-na is a South Korean author of picture books, an illustrator and animator. She writes picture books with characters that have distinct personalities and with charming storytelling based on various illustration production experiences.
Baek Hee-na is read about 26 times a day, in 11 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 30 October 2026
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Awards
About this person
Her representative work, Magic Candies, was selected as a recommended work and included on the IBBY Honour List in 2018 and produced as a musical in South Korea. Baek is the first South Korean to win the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) in 2020. Her picture books have been translated and published in several languages, including English, German, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish and Norwegian.
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