Land Below The Wind
Bu e-kitob haqida
Awang Fadilah uses detailed black and white illustrations to tell us about his beloved homeland of Sabah. Through his artistry children will be able to share with him the richness of the culture, the heritage, the animals and the gifts of nature in a small rural village in the Land Below the Wind.
This book won the runner-up prize in the Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations 2006 organised by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO in Tokyo.
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Muallif haqida
AWANG FADILAH comes from Sabah, East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. He started illustrating children’s picture books after attending a workshop organised by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) in the late 90s. Since then he has had several picture books published by DBP. He has also participated in several exhibitions in Sabah. At the international level, his illustrations have been exhibited at the National Diet Library, International Library of Children’s Literature, Tokyo. He won the runner-up prize for ‘Land Below the Wind’ in the Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations organised by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO in Tokyo. Awang lives in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah with his family.
