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Selected project with my picturebook “Midsummer and September” in The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase by Picturebook Makers, dPICTUS and Frankfurter Buchmesse, my project was showcased in Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany (2019)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

Alice in Wonder Day (อลิซในวันมหัศจรรย์) – illustration only, a children’s picture book about children and digital medias in nowadays, published with Child Media สถาบันสื่อเด็กและเยาวชน (สสย.) (2020), [Thai]
Pakwan (พาขวัญ) – illustration (anthology) only, a children’s picture book about when the little rat get sicks, but the little rat gets a lot of cheer ups from friends and family members, published with Baan Nak Kean Nungsue Dek (บ้านนักเขียนหนังสือเด็ก) (2019) [Thai]

Happy Reading House (บ้านอ่านสุข) – illustration only, a children’s picture book about how everyone enjoy reading together, published with HappyReeading (แผนงานสร้างเสริมวัฒนธรรมการอ่าน) and Baan Nak Kean Nungsue Dek (บ้านนักเขียนหนังสือเด็ก) (2018) [Thai]

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 in paperback edition (6th publishing on May 2021), Thai-English-Chinese in hard cover big book version]
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]

Self-published

In the Haunted House On the Hill By the Lake, zine (coming soon)
When it comes, zine (2019)

Exhibition

2021

Children’s Story Hour (digital exhibition on screen), Bristol Manchester and London (UK)

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