I’m alway intrigued by the Andersen Awards, partly as they are made for a body of work, not just one title and partly because they offer such an international snapshot of authors and illustrators. It is fun to scan the list of nominees for familiar names and also to let unfamiliar names lead you off in new directions. Ireland’s very deserving nominees are Pj Lynch and Eoin Colfer. I’m also really please to see David Almond and Eric Carle there as well. More about the awards and Irish nominees on www.ibbyireland.ie
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:
Argentina: Author: Liliana Bodoc; Illustrator: Luis Scafati
Austria: Author: Heinz Janisch; Illustrator: Linda Wolfsgruber
Belgium: Author: Pierre Coran; Illustrator: Carll Cneut
Brazil: Author: Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós; Illustrator: Roger Mello
Canada: Author: Brian Doyle; Illustrator: Marie-Louise Gay
China: Author: Liu Xianping Croatia: Illustrator: Svjetlan Junakóvic
Cyprus: Author: Maria Pyliotou
Czech Republic: Author: Pavel Srut; Illustrator: Jirí Salamoun
Denmark: Author: Louis Jensen; Illustrator: Lilian Brøgger
Finland: Author: Hannu Mäkelä; Illustrator: Salla Savolainen
France: Author: Jean-Claude Mourlevat; Illustrator: Grégoire Solotareff
Germany: Author: Peter Härtling; Illustrator: Jutta Bauer
Greece: Author: Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou; Illustrator: Diatsenta Parissi
Iran: Author: Ahmad Reza Ahmadi
Ireland: Author: Eoin Colfer; Illustrator: P.J. Lynch
Japan: Author: Shuntaro Tanikawa; Illustrator: Akiko Hayashi
Lithuania: Illustrator: Kestutis Kasparavicius
Mexico: Author: Alberto Blanco; Illustrator: Fabricio Vanden Broeck
Mongolia: Author: Dashdondog Jamba
Netherlands: Author: Peter van Gestel; Illustrator: Harrie Geelen
Norway: Author: Bjørn Sortland; Illustrator: Thore Hansen
Russia: Illustrator: Nickolay Popov Serbia: Author: Zoran Bozovic
Slovak Republic: Author: Ján Uliciansky Illustrator: Peter Uchnár
Slovenia: Author: Tone Pavcek; Illustrator: Ancka Gosnik Godec
Spain: Author: Jordi Sierra i Fabra; Illustrator: Xan López Domínguez
Sweden: Lennart Hellsing; Illustrator: Anna-Clara Tidholm
Switzerland: Illustrator: Etienne Delessert
Turkey: Author: Muzaffer Izgü; Illustrator: Can Göknil
Uganda: Author: Evangeline Ledi Barongo
United Kingdom: Author: David Almond; Illustrator: Michael Foreman
USA: Author: Walter Dean Myers; Illustrator: 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
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.
The French writer is GREAT, even though I say so myself. He’s even made it into English if you fancy a great read (The Winter Song). Great stuff. Did I mention he was great?
Why isn’t there an Australian pair of nominees? Or did I miss it?
It could be that Ibby Australia didn’t submit a nomination this year. There are about 60 international sections of IBBY but it looks like only 33 sections made nominations.
Putting together a nomination is quite a long process so some sections don’t put authors and illustrators forward every year