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A |     지선 참패·쇄신 난항 끝 대표직 내려놔 부산시장 후보 사건도 재조명이준석 개혁신당 대표가 대표직에서 물러났다. 6·3 지방선거 참패 이후 당 쇄신을 둘러싼 내홍이 이어진 가운데 부산에서는 지난 지방선거 당시 시장 후보 공천을 둘러싸고 제기됐던 책임론도 다시 주목받고 있다. 이 대표는 26일 국회에서 기자회견을 열고 당 대표직 사퇴를 선언했다. 지방선거 이후 당의 자강과 쇄신을 위한 고민과 제안을 이어왔지만 당내에서 충분한 호응을 얻지 못했다는 취지로 사퇴 배경을 설명했다.                    ▲개혁신당 대표인 이준석 의원이 26일 국회 소통관에서 열린 기자회견에서 대표직 사퇴를 발표한 뒤 고개숙여 인사하고 있다. ⓒ연합뉴스 개혁신당은 지난 지방선거에서 전국적으로 기초의원 1석을 확보하는 데 그쳤다. 부산시장 선거에서도 정이한 후보가 1.56%를 얻어 3위에 머물렀다. 선거 이후에는 후보 검증 문제가 불거졌다. 정 전 후보가 선거운동 과정에서 지인과 공모해 자신이 습격당한 것처럼 꾸민 혐의로 구속 기소되면서 개혁신당의 공천 책임도 도마에 올랐다. 이 대표는 지방선거 당시 정 후보 지원에 직접 나섰다. 지난 3월 부산을 찾아 지지를 호소했고, 피습 사건 직후에도 부산에서 함께 선거운동을 벌이며 힘을 실었다. 그러나 선거 이후 사건의 실체가 드러나자 이 대표는 부산시민에게 공개 사과했다. 당시 그는 개혁신당이 공천한 후보인 만큼 '무한한 책임'을 느낀다는 취지로 밝히며 당 차원의 진상조사와 책임 규명 방침을 내놨다. 한편 정이한 전 부산시장 후보는 현재 구속 기소돼 재판을 앞두고 있다. 26일 공개된 검찰 공소장에는 음료 종류와 차량 동선, 복장과 현장에서 사용할 말까지 공범과 사전에 논의했다는 검찰의 판단이 담긴 것으로 전해졌다. 이 대표는 이날 사퇴 회견에서 부산시장 후보 사건을 직접 언급하지 않았다. 이번 사퇴의 직접적인 배경으로 해당 사건을 단정할 수 없는 이유다. 다만 이 대표가 후보 지원에 적극 나섰고 사건 이후 스스로 공천에 대한 책임을 인정했던 만큼 대표직 사퇴를 계기로 부산에서 불거졌던 후보 검증과 공천 책임 문제가 다시 수면 위로 떠오를 지는 미지수다.。

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    Chinese picture book artist Cai Gao Photo: VCGOn Saturday Beijing time, the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award ceremony was held in Canada. Eighty-year-old Chinese picture book artist Cai Gao attended the event in person to receive the medal and certificate, becoming the first Chinese illustrator to win this honor in the award's 60-year history.
The prize is awarded every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) to a living author (since 1956) and illustrator (since 1966). The award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize for children's literature," honoring lifelong achievements that have made a lasting and important contribution to children's literature. 
During the award ceremony, IBBY President Basarat Kazim praised Cai for the elegant, unrushed style in her works, which encourages children to look closely and discover beauty in quiet corners, according to the Guangming Daily. 
Kazim said Cai's works have an unhurried elegance that encourages children to look closely and discover beauty in quiet, everyday moment.
"This year's winner, Cai Gao, is extremely special. She is as beautiful a person as the drawings she does," Kazim said.
Following author Cao Wenxuan's win of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards as a writer of children's literature in 2016, Cai's achievement means that Chinese creators have now won both the author and illustrator categories, a "double victory."
In her acceptance speech, Cai said, "The future of the world lies in children. There is no greater happiness than creating for them." She also noted that children's books are bridges, connecting cultures and hearts around the world.
Reflecting on her childhood and her years teaching in rural villages, Cai recalled that after six years working as a rural primary school teacher in the 1980s, she joined a publishing house, where she spent two decades as a children's book editor. "This job taught me the most important lesson: to see life through the eyes of a child, and to use art as a way of expressing my feelings about life," she noted.
"I feel the profound weight of this gift from life. I'm filled with mixed emotions. I'm moved and grateful for everything I've been through. Every experience has shaped me into the person I am today," she added.
Alongside her editing career, Cai kept creating original picture books. Her well-known book Yueliang Baba is based on folk songs her grandmother would sing in her native Changsha dialect. Works like Huocheng 1938 (lit: Fire City 1938) were inspired by memories of wartime in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province. The rural scenery and farming scenes in The Land of the Peach Blossom, a book which is also listed as textbooks for primary school students in Japan, all reflect her lifelong connection to the Hunan countryside and many years quietly editing books at her desk, according to the China News Service. 
Though her illustrations reflect the atmosphere of the times, Cai told the Global Times that her stories' true intentions go beyond the visual; she hopes her work can teach children that "fearlessness and love are ways to overcome hardship."
Books such as Bao'er, Hua Mulan, The Land of the Peach Blossom, and The Hundred Birds' Feather Robe have established Cai as an illustrator who skillfully interprets traditional Chinese culture. She constantly revisits the classics, striving to connect ancient stories to contemporary social and cultural themes.
Before winning the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2026, Cai became, in 1993, the first Chinese illustrator to win the Golden Apple Award, one of the world's top international honors for children's illustration. Cai has always emphasized that these awards do not belong to her alone. 
"When I learned that I had won the award, my first thought was of all the creators of my generation. This award is not just mine, it belongs to all of us," she said.
Cai's victory fills a six-decade gap for Chinese illustrators in the award's history, Zhang Peng, an associate professor at Nanjing Normal University and also president of the university's publishing house, told the Global Times. It also shows that original picture books, rooted in Chinese tradition and told with Eastern aesthetics, are fully capable of earning global recognition, Zhang added.
Zhang noted that for a long time, the Chinese children's book market was dominated by foreign imports, and local authors often struggled with the anxiety of imitating Western works. At 80, Cai has set a striking example for the industry with her use of ink-and-wash folk art, proving that the more grounded in national culture a work is, the wider its global reach. This has inspired greater confidence among local creators and encourages more people to focus on traditional Chinese culture, while paving the way for Chinese children's books to go global.
"Cai's achievement is no accident. It marks the moment when Chinese children's books truly found their own voice on the world stage," Zhang said.
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