About

Hello!

My name is Sanprapha Vudhivorn (Mimi), a Thai children’s book author and illustrator with the curious mind and lots of love for books. I enjoy storytelling, drawing and image making with various techniques.

I graduated from MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, United Kingdom in 2019.
I’m currently based in Bangkok, Thailand.

CONTACT: sanpraphav@gmail.com
You can also follow me on social media!
instagram: @sanpraphav
facebook: @sanpraphav
twitter: @sanpraphav

Key Achievements

  • Selected illustrator in Bologna Children’s Book Fair‘s The Children Spectators (2021)
  • Shortlisted with my picturebook “Midsummer and September” in The Little Hakka International Picture Book Award 2019, China (2019)
  • Selected project with my picturebook “Midsummer and September” in The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase by Picturebook Makers, dPICTUS and Frankfurter Buchmesse, my project was showcased in Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany (2019)
  • Selected illustrator in Bologna Children’s Book Fair‘s The Children Spectators (2019)
  • Won notable recognition with my children’s picturebook “Midsummer and September” in SCBWI British Isles’s Beginning-Middle-End (2018)
  • Showcased Chinese monster artwork on China’s stage in Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2018, Italy (2018)
  • Won the second place with my children’s picturebook “Tan and the Blooming Hearts” (เจ้าถ่านกับการให้ไม่รู้จบ) in Wankaew Contest (2017)
  • Won the first place in toy design for families“Dino Day” in Big Toy Design Innovation, Thailand (2017)
  • Designed and developed the “Fighting Chess” game, Xbox 360 3D chess game in RPG style
  • Featured and published in the “Done Project, just to share” book with my comic “Flower Town“, ToShare publishing, Thailand (2013)

Published Books

  • Tan and the Blooming Hearts (เจ้าถ่านกับการให้ไม่รู้จบ), a children’s picture book about giving and generosity, won the second place in Wankaew Contest, published with Nanmee books (2017), [Thai & English, translated to Vietnamese]
  • Please help me (ช่วยฉันหน่อยนะ), illustrator, the children’s book in the Fluke Free Thailand project that educate children in the Northeast of Thailand about liver fluke, published with KhonKaen University (2017) [Thai]
  • Flower Town, a comic about generosity, featured and published withToShare publishing house (2013) [Thai]

Exhibition

2019

  • MA Children’s Book Illustration Graduation Exhibition, London and Cambridge (UK)
  • Mexico-Thailand Printmaking Exchange 2019, Thailand and Mexico

2018

  • The Archive and Contested Landscape, Cambridge (UK)
  • ASEAN Illustration, International Children’s Content Rights Fair (ICCRF), Chiang Mai (Thailand)
  • International Children’s Picture Book Festival 2018  at TK park, Bangkok (Thailand)
  • Manuscript exhibition with Children’s Book Authors’ House, Bangkok (Thailand)

2017

  • Book Illustrators Gallery in Asian’s Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC), (Singapore)
  • International Children’s Picture Book Festival 2018  at TK park, Bangkok (Thailand)

2015

  • RuamZen Exhibition #4, Bangkok (Thailand)

2012

  • RuamZen Exhibition #1, Bangkok (Thailand)