Lee Jihyeon

Lee Jihyeon (이지현; born October 20, 1981) is a South Korean illustrator. Her first original picture book, Pool, won the gold medal at the 2015 Society of Illustrators’ Original Art Show, was an NPR.org Best Book of the Year for 2015, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2015, and one of the best-translated books of the year chosen by the IBBY in Sweden in 2016. Her best-known works include Pool, Door, Strange House, and The Last Island.

Career Lee Jihyeon's first book, Pool, was published in translation in many countries including the U.S., France, Spain, Italy, and Sweden, won the gold medal at the 2015 Society of Illustrators’ Original Art Show, and as an IBBY Silent Book of 2019. In 2023 she participated in the Brisbane Writers Festival, Australia.

Awards 2019 IBBY Silent Book Collection, La porta (Door) 2015 Gold Medal Winner - Society of Illustrators' Original Art Show, Pool 2013 Pool (Iyagikot Publishing) 2019 A Piscina (Orfeu Negro), Portugal, 2019泳池奇遇 (外语教学与研究出版社), China, 2019你們吵吧，我只想靜靜的欣賞 (奧林文化), Taiwan, 2016 La piscine (Kaléidoscope), France, 2016 Simbassängen (Bokforlaget Mirando), Sweden, 2015 Pool (Chronicle Books), USA, 2015 La piscina (Orecchio Acerbo), Italy, 2014 La piscina (Barbara Fiore Editora), Spain,

Collaborations with other authors

2023 Goodbye, Grandpa, Text by Oh Mi-kyung (Kids-M) 2021 Plastic Man, Text by Ahn Soo-min (Kookmin Books) 2017 Wall, Text by Park Chae-ran (Ggoomgyo Publishing) 2015 Mia in Neverland, Text by Kim Gi-jung (Sigong Junior)