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Kei Lam, born in 1985 in Hong Kong, is a comic book writer and illustrator.

Her father, a painter, dreams of Paris, the birthplace of major artistic movements like Impressionism and Cubism. Kei Lam was 6 years old when her family moved there. She recounts this story in her first two comics, Banana Girl and The Flavors of Concrete.

Kei Lam graduated from the École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris in 2009. That same year, she spent several months in Shanghai. She then entered the workforce, working for several years in an urban planning consulting firm.

In 2015, Kei Lam made a career change. She joined the École de Condé in Paris (a private design school) to study illustration and obtained her master's degree in June 2016. She then worked in advertising and journalism, exhibiting her works in various galleries.

In 2017, Kei Lam published her first autobiographical comic, Banana Girl. This book won the UNICEF Prize for Children's Literature in 2018.

She followed up in 2021 with another comic on the same subject, The Flavors of Concrete. This book won the first prize at the Palais de la Porte Dorée and the Angoulême Festival in 2022.

In 2024, she published a third documentary comic on the theme of emotional self-defense, Defend Yourself with Anne van Hyfte.

• For further information: Kei Lam website
• Learning activities for 9-12 years students: MyUnicef
  
• To listen RFI radio interview in French with Kei Lam : Écouter

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