Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Not to be confused with Astrid Lindgren Prize or ALMA Award.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (Swedish: Litteraturpriset till Astrid Lindgrens minne) is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honour the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002). The prize is five million SEK, making it the richest award in children's literature and one of the richest literary prizes in the world.[1][2] The annual cost of 10 million SEK (in 2008) is financed with tax money.[3]

The Lindgren Award annually recognises one or more living people and extant institutions (twelve in the first ten years) – people for their career contributions and institutions for their long-term sustainable work. Specifically they should be "authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and promoters of reading" whose "work is of the highest quality, and in the spirit of Astrid Lindgren."[4] The object of the award is to increase interest in children's and young people's literature, and to promote children's rights to culture on a global level.

The award is administered by the Swedish Arts Council funded solely by the central government.[5] Officially it is called "An award by the Swedish people to the world".[6] The award ceremony is presided over by Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.

"The award recipients are chosen by a jury with broad expertise in international children's and young adult literature, reading promotion and children's rights. The 12 members include authors, literary critics and scholars, illustrators and librarians. One member represents Astrid Lindgren's family."[6]

The annual cycle begins no later than December about 9 months before nominees are announced, 15 months before the winner is announced and 18 months before the presentation.[7]

Winners

In the first 23 annual cycles through 2025 there were 25 recipients, twenty-one people and four institutions. There were two inaugural awards in 2003 and two again in 2005.[4][8]

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winners[9]
Year Author Country Ref.
2003 Christine Nöstlinger Austria
Maurice Sendak United States
2004 Lygia Bojunga Nunes Brazil
2005 Ryōji Arai Japan
Philip Pullman United Kingdom
2006 Katherine Paterson United States [10]
2007 Banco del Libro Venezuela [11]
2008 Sonya Hartnett Australia [12]
2009 Tamer Institute for Community Education Palestine [13]
2010 Kitty Crowther Belgium [14]
2011 Shaun Tan Australia [15][16]
2012 Guus Kuijer Netherlands [17][18][19]
2013 Isol Argentina [20][21][22]
2014 Barbro Lindgren Sweden [23][24]
2015 Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA) South Africa [25][26]
2016 Meg Rosoff United States/United Kingdom [27][28]
2017 Wolf Erlbruch Germany [29][30][31]
2018 Jacqueline Woodson United States [32][33]
2019 Bart Moeyaert Belgium [34][35][36]
2020 Baek Hee-na South Korea [37][38]
2021 Jean-Claude Mourlevat France [39]
2022 Eva Lindström Sweden [40]
2023 Laurie Halse Anderson United States [41][42]
2024 Indigenous Literacy Foundation Australia [43]
2025 Marion Brunet France [44][45]
2026 Jon Klassen Canada [46]

Five of the Lindgren Award winners have also, and much earlier, won the older, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for their lifetime contributions to children's literature: Sendak and Erlbruch as illustrators; Nöstlinger, Nunes, and Paterson as authors. Lindgren herself won the Andersen Award in 1958. In 2020, Woodson also won the Andersen Award as an author, two years after winning the Lindgren Award.[47]

See also

References

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