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Zuo Hsuan

Comic artist and illustrator Zuo Hsuan's The Banana Sprout Vol. 1 won the 14th Golden Comic Award for Comic of the Year and was selected as an Excellent Extra-Curricular Reading for Elementary and Secondary Students. In 2014, Zuo Hsuan published Rites of Returning, which won the Bronze Award at the Japan International Manga Awards. It also sold rights in Japanese, French, Italian, and Vietnamese and was adapted into a television drama that aired in 2020. Zuo Hsuan participated in the "Comic Plant Theatre" project, creating a comic adaptation of What She Put on the Table, which was selected as an Excellent Extra-Curricular Reading for Elementary and Secondary Students and included in the Books From Taiwan program. Zuo Hsuan has represented Taiwan at the 2017 Angoulême International Comics Festival in France, the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, the 2022 Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the 2023 Lausanne Comics Festival in Switzerland.