Thé Tjong-Khing, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Thé Tjong-Khing

Dutch illustrator

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1933

Place of Birth: Purworejo, Indonesia

Profession: writer, illustrator

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Thé Tjong-Khing (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zhèng Zongqióng; born August 4, 1933) is a children's book illustrator based in the Netherlands. He was born in Purworedjo, Java 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 Olivier B.
Bommelstrip's, he also 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).Tjong-Khing is also a film expert and has won many quizzes and contests over the years. Tjong-Khing is married to Mino Wortel-The and father of two sons: Markus and Erik.
His grandchildren are called Tobias, Jonathan, Nicci and Emma.