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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Literary award

Summary

Literary award

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award () 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.

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." 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. Officially it is called "An award by the Swedish people to the world". 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."

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.

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.

YearAuthorCountryRef.
2003Austria
United States
2004Brazil
2005Japan
United Kingdom
2006United States
2007Banco del LibroVenezuela
2008Australia
2009Tamer Institute for Community EducationPalestine
2010Belgium
2011Australia
2012Netherlands
2013IsolArgentina
2014Sweden
2015Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA)South Africa
2016United States/United Kingdom
2017Germany
2018United States
2019Belgium
2020South Korea
2021France
2022Sweden
2023United States
2024Indigenous Literacy FoundationAustralia
2025Marion BrunetFrance

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.

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  23. (2022-12-16). "Obituary Note: Wolf Erlbruch".
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  26. Kantor, Emma. (2018-03-27). "Bologna 2018: Jacqueline Woodson Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award".
  27. (2021-01-28). "Jacqueline Woodson: 2021 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner".
  28. (2019-04-03). "Flemish author Bart Moeyaert wins 2019 Astrid Lindgren Award".
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  32. (2020-04-02). "Awards: Astrid Lindgren, Duff Cooper, Republic of Consciousness Winners; Christian Book Finalists".
  33. (2021-03-30). "Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2021 goes to Jean-Claude Mourlevat, one of France's leading children and young adult authors.".
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  35. (2023-03-10). "Laurie Halse Anderson Named Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Laureate".
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  37. (2024-04-09). "Bologna 2024: Indigenous Literacy Foundation Wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award".
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