The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are presented every other year by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's literature.
The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children's books. Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is the Patron of the Andersen Awards.
The nominations are made by the National Sections of IBBY and the recipients are selected by a distinguished international jury of children's literature specialists.
The Author's Award has been given since 1956 and the Illustrator's Award since 1966. The Award consists of a gold medal and a diploma, presented at a festive ceremony during the biennial IBBY Congress. A special Andersen Awards issue of IBBY's journal Bookbird presents all the nominees, and documents the selection process.
2010 Contenders
The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are presented every two years by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important and lasting contribution to children's literature. IBBY National Sections from 33 countries have made their selections, submitting the following 29 authors and 27 illustrators as candidates for the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Awards:
Country |
Author |
Illustrator |
Argentina |
Liliana Bodoc |
Luis Scafati |
Austria |
Heinz Janisch |
Linda Wolfsgruber |
Belgium |
Pierre Coran |
Carll Cneut |
Brazil |
Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós |
Roger Mello |
Canada |
Brian Doyle |
Marie-Louise Gay |
China |
Liu Xianping |
|
Croatia |
Svjetlan Junakóvić |
|
Cyprus |
Maria Pyliotou |
|
Czech Republic |
Pavel Šrut |
Jiří Šalamoun |
Denmark |
Louis Jensen |
Lilian Brøgger |
Finland |
Hannu Mäkelä |
Salla Savolainen |
France |
Jean-Claude Mourlevat |
Grégoire Solotareff |
Germany |
Peter Härtling |
Jutta Bauer |
Greece |
Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou |
Diatsenta Parissi |
Iran |
Ahmad Reza Ahmadi |
|
Ireland |
Eoin Colfer |
P.J. Lynch |
Japan |
Shuntaro Tanikawa |
Akiko Hayashi |
Lithuania |
Kęstutis Kasparavičius |
|
Mexico |
Alberto Blanco |
Fabricio Vanden Broeck |
Mongolia |
Dashdondog Jamba |
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Netherlands |
Peter van Gestel |
Harrie Geelen |
Norway |
Bjørn Sortland |
Thore Hansen |
Russia |
Nickolay Popov |
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Serbia |
Zoran Božović |
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Slovak Republic |
Ján Uličiansky |
Peter Uchnár |
Slovenia |
Tone Pavček |
Ančka Gošnik Godec |
Spain |
Jordi Sierra i Fabra |
Xan López Domínguez |
Sweden |
Lennart Hellsing |
Anna-Clara Tidholm |
Switzerland |
Etienne Delessert |
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Turkey |
Muzaffer İzgü |
Can Göknil |
Uganda |
Evangeline Ledi Barongo |
|
United Kingdom |
David Almond |
Michael Foreman |
USA |
Walter Dean Myers |
Eric Carle |
The elected Chair of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury, Zohreh Ghaeni (Iran) and Jury members from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America, will meet in March 2010 to select from among these 56 nominations the winners of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Awards.
The results will be made public at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, Monday, 22 March 2010 and the Awards will be presented to the winners at the 32nd IBBY Congress in Santiago de Compostela, Spain on 11 September 2010
Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration 1966–2008
2008 Roberto Innocenti (Italy)
2006 Wolf Erlbruch (Germany)
2004 Max Velthuijs (The Netherlands)
2002 Quentin Blake (UK)
2000 Anthony Browne (UK)
1998 Tomi Ungerer (France)
1996 Klaus Ensikat (Germany)
1994 Jörg Müller (Switzerland)
1992 Kveta Pacovská (Czech Republic)
1990 Lisbeth Zwerger (Austria)
1988 Dusan Kállay (Czechoslovakia)
1986 Robert Ingpen (Australia)
1984 Mitsumasa Anno (Japan)
1982 Zbigniew Rychlicki (Poland)
1980 Suekichi Akaba (Japan)
1978 Svend Otto S. (Denmark)
1976 Tatjana Mawrina (USSR)
1974 Farshid Mesghali (Iran)
1972 Ib Spang Olsen (Denmark)
1970 Maurice Sendak (USA)
1968 Jirí Trnka (Czechoslovakia)1966 Alois Carigiet (Switzerland)
Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing 1956–2008
2008 Jürg Schubiger (Switzerland)
2006 Margaret Mahy (New Zealand)
2004 Martin Waddell (Ireland)
2002 Aidan Chambers (UK)
2000 Ana Maria Machado (Brazil)
1998 Katherine Paterson (USA)
1996 Uri Orlev (Israel)
1994 Michio Mado (Japan)
1992 Virginia Hamilton (USA)
1990 Tormod Haugen (Norway)
1988 Annie M. G. Schmidt (Netherlands)
1986 Patricia Wrightson (Australia)
1984 Christine Nöstlinger (Austria)
1982 Lygia Bojunga Nunes (Brazil)
1980 Bohumil Riha (Czechoslovakia)
1978 Paula Fox (USA)
1976 Cecil Bødker (Denmark)
1974 Maria Gripe (Sweden)
1972 Scott O'Dell (USA)
1970 Gianni Rodari (Italy)
1968 James Krüss (Germany)
José Maria Sanchez-Silva (Spain)
1966 Tove Jansson (Finland)
1964 René Guillot (France)
1962 Meindert DeJong (USA)
1960 Erich Kästner (Germany)
1958 Astrid Lindgren (Sweden)
1956 Eleanor Farjeon (UK)