Thé Tjong-Khing

Thé Tjong-Khing (; 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). Provided by Wikipedia