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Books Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral, Hannah Is My Name, Always Come Home to, Chili‑chili‑chin‑chin, The odyssey of a Manchu | ||
Belle yang artist profile
Belle Yang (born 1965) is an artist, author, graphic novelist and children’s book writer. She received national and international recognition with Harcourt Brace’s publication in 1994 of ``Baba, A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders’’, a work about her father Joseph Yang walking out of a 1940s war-torn China.
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Maxine Hong Kingston compared Yang’s art and writing to that of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Marc Chagall (1). The Kirkus Review wrote that ``Yang’s work is like a lovely painted scroll swimming with wild souls, beasts, birds, flowers, day and night sky, tragedy, and hope’’.
She followed in 1996 with a second book about her father’s exodus from China, ``Odyssey of a Manchurian’’. Her trilogy was completed in 2010 with publication by W.W. Norton and Company of the graphic novel ``Forget Sorrow, An Ancestral Tale.
Her children’s books include ``Chili-Chili-Chin-Chin’’, ``Foo the Flying Frog of Washtub Pond’’, ``Always Come Home to Me’’ and ``My Name Is Hannah’’, a retelling of her family waiting for its green card after entering the United States.
Yang has had numerous museum exhibitions, including a national tour in its third year, ``Crossing Cultures: Belle Yang, A Story of Immigration’’. She is the subject of a film documentary by Mac and Ava Motion Pictures that has been telecast on public television, ``My Name Is Belle.’’
Her books have been translated into many languages and a French translation of ``Forget Sorrow’’ has just been published.