The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award ( sv, Litteraturpriset till Astrid Lindgrens minne) is an international children's literary award established by the

Swedish government The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden ( sv, Konungariket Sveriges regering) is the Cabinet (government), national cabinet of Sweden, and the country's Executive (government), executive authority. The Government consists of the Prime Minister ...

in 2002 to honour the

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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 annual cost of 10 million SEK (in 2008) is financed with tax money. 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 seventeen annual cycles through 2018 there were 18 recipients, fifteen people and three institutions. There were two inaugural awards in 2003 and two again in 2005. *2003: Maurice Sendak, United States *2003:

Christine Nöstlinger Christine Nöstlinger (13 October 1936 – 28 June 2018) was an Austrian writer best known for children's books. She received one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards from the Swedish Arts Council in 2003, the biggest prize in childre ...

, Austria *2004: Lygia Bojunga Nunes, Brazil *2005: Philip Pullman, United Kingdom *2005:

Ryōji Arai (born 1956) is a Japanese illustrator. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" he won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2005, the largest cash prize in child ...

, Japan *2006:

Katherine Paterson Katherine Womelsdorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is an American writer best known for children's novels, including '' Bridge to Terabithia''. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Aw ...

, United States *2007: Banco del Libro, Venezuela *2008: Sonya Hartnett, Australia *2009: Tamer Institute for Community Education, Palestine *2010:

Kitty Crowther Kitty Crowther (born 4 April 1970, in Brussels) is a Belgian illustrator and writer of children's books. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awar ...

, Belgium *2011: Shaun Tan, Australia *2012: Guus Kuijer, Netherlands *2013: Isol, Argentina *2014: Barbro Lindgren, Sweden *2015: Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA) *2016: Meg Rosoff, United States/United Kingdom *2017: Wolf Erlbruch, Germany *2018:

Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for '' Miracle's Boys'', and her Newbery Honor-winning titles '' Brown Girl Dreaming'', ''After Tupac and D Foster'', '' ...

, United States *2019: Bart Moeyaert, Belgium *2020: Baek Hee-Na, South Korea *2021: , France *2022:

Eva Lindström Eva Lindström (born 1952) is a Swedish illustrator and author. Her work is known for its humorous and dark style. Life Lindström was born in Västerås in 1952. She attended the art school Konstfack in Stockholm from 1969 to 1974, where she stu ...

, Sweden 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 an illustrator; Nöstlinger, Nunes, and Paterson as writers. In 2020, Woodson also won the Andersen Award as a writer. (Astrid Lindgren won the Andersen Award in 1958.)

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* {{Authority control Children's literary awards Swedish literary awards International literary awards Literary awards honoring writers Swedish speculative fiction awards Astrid Lindgren Awards established in 2003

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