Mitsumasa Anno

1926 - 2020

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: Japan

native language: Japanese

languages spoken, written or signed: Japanese

educated at: 山口県立宇部工業高等学校

occupation: writer, children's writer, illustrator, painter

award received: Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration, Kikuchi Kan Prize, Medal with Purple Ribbon, Person of Cultural Merit, Silver Brush

Mitsumasa Anno (安野光雅, Anno Mitsumasa, 20 March 1926 – 24 December 2020) was a Japanese illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books with few or no words. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature." Source: Wikipedia (en)