Kitty Crowther (born 4 April 1970, in

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) is a

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and writer of

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. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the 2010

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award ( sv, 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 (1907–200 ...

from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature.

Biography

Kitty Crowther is the Belgian daughter of a British father and a Swedish mother. She was born and grew up in

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, part of

, in Belgium. She and her husband now live in Blanmont with their two sons. She studied Graphic Arts at the

Institut Saint-Luc The Institut Saint-Luc () is an arts school in Brussels, Belgium. It consists of six departments, with a total of 2,200 students and 430 employees, spread over five locations in Ixelles and Saint-Gilles. History The school was founded by members ...

in Brussels. She works mainly in French, occasionally in Dutch, and has as of 2010 created some 35 books of her own, and has illustrated books of others as well, e.g. work by

Carl Norac Carl Norac (born 29 June 1960) is a Walloon Belgian author of children's books and poetry. Biography Carl Norac was born in Mons, Belgium in 1960, as the son of poet Pierre Coran and comedian Irène Coran. In 1968, they moved to the small vi ...

Bart Moeyaert Bart Peter Boudewijn Moeyaert (born 9 June 1964) is a Belgian writer. Early life Moeyaert was born in 1964 in Bruges as the youngest of seven brothers. He is named after the character Bartje in the book series by Anne de Vries and after Baudo ...

and

Toon Tellegen Antonius Otto Hermannus (Toon) Tellegen (born 18 November 1941) is a Dutch writer, poet, and physician, known for children's books, especially those featuring anthropomorphised animals, particularly those about an ant and a squirrel. His writing ...

. She made her debut in 1994 with ''Mon royaume'' (''My kingdom''). The jury of the

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awarded her a "Vlag en Wimpel" in 1997 for the illustrated book ''Mon ami Jim''. Further recognition followed in 2003 and 2005, when she received the Silver Pencil for ''In het pikkedonker'' (''In the pitch dark'') and ''Kleine Dood en het meisje'' (''Little Death and the girl''). In 2010 she received the Astrid Lindgren Award, administered by the Swedish Arts Council. In the jury's citation she was described as "the master of line but also of atmosphere".

Works

*1994: ''Mon royaume'' *1994: ''Chat-collection'', text by Florence Dutruc-Rosset *1995: ''Un jour mon Prince viendra'', text by Andréa Nève *1995: ''Va faire un tour'' *1996: ''Mon ami Jim'': translated in English as ''Jack and Jim'' in 2000 *1997: ''Copain des peintres: La Boîte à idées des artistes en herbe'', text by Geneviève Casterman *1997: ''Lily au royaume des nuages'' *1998: ''Les animaux et leurs poètes'', text by Jean-Hugues Malineau *1999: ''Grote Oma's'', text by

*1999: ''La Grande Ourse'', text by

*2000: ''Moi et rien'' *2000: ''Trois histoires folles de Monsieur Pol'' *2000: ''365 histoires, comptines et chansons. Le Grand Livre des petits'' by Marie Delafon, Kitty Crowther, Rémi Saillard, and Isabelle Chatelard *2000: ''Message de bonheur, pour une naissance'' *2000: ''365 histoires pour l'année'' *2000: ''Lever de rideau'', text by Sophie Dieuaide *2000: ''Le scoop du siècle'', text by Sophie Dieuaide *2000: 'Ce rat de Custer'', text by Sophie Dieuaide *2001: ''Le père Noël m'a écrit'', text by Carl Norac *2001: ''Tout va très bien, madame la marquise'' by

Paul Misraki Paul Misraki (28 January 1908 – 29 October 1998) was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Jac ...

, Henri Allum (aka Henry Laverne), Charles Pasquier, and Kitty Crowther *2001: ''Le Bain d’Elias'' *2001: ''Champions du monde, la vie héroïque d'Antoine Lebic'', text by Sophie Dieuaide *2002: ''De verjaardag van de eekhoorn'' by

*2002: ''Scritch scratch dip clapote!'' *2002: ''Teri hate tua: L'épouvantable tortue rouge!'', text by Jean-François Chabas *2003: ''L'Enfant racine'' *2003: ''La Princesse qui n’existait pas'', text by

Christian Oster Christian Oster (born 1949) is a French writer. He has written more than a dozen novels, and he is also a prolific author of children's books. Noted works include ''My Big Apartment'' (1999) which won the Prix Médicis, and ''The Cleaning Woman'' ( ...

*2004: ''Petits meurtres et autres tendresses'' *2004: ''365 histoires, comptines et chansons'' by Jacques Duquennoy, Rémi Saillard, Isabelle Chatelard, and Kitty Crowther *2004: ''Vingt-neuf moutons'', text by Christian Oster *2005: ''La Visite de Petite Mort'' *2005: ''Le grand désordre'' *2005–2010: ''Poka et Mine'': ''Le Réveil'', '' Les nouvelle ailes'', ''Au cinéma'', ''Au Musée'', ''Au fond du jardin'', ''Le football'' *2006: ''Spinoza et Moi'', text by Sylvaine Jaoui *2006: ''Copain des peintres'', text by Geneviève Casterman *2006: ''Les contes de l'armoire: Trente-cinq contes brefs'' by Pierre Mosonyi, Kitty Crowther, Eva Almassy, and Fanny Volcsanszky *2006: ''Les contes des magasins'' by

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, Kitty Crowther, and Eva Almassy *2006: ''Pas un mot'', text by Nathalie Kuperman Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2010-65

*2007: ''Dans moi'', text by Alex Cousseau *2007: ''Un nuage dans le ventre'', text by Gilles Abier *2008: ''Alors?'' *2009: ''Petits poèmes pour passer le temps'' by Carl Norac, Kitty Crowther, and Célestin *2009: ''Annie du lac'' *2010: "Le petit homme et Dieu" *2018: ''Stories of the Night'', 64pp., (

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) *2019: ''The Runaways'', text by

Ulf Stark Ulf Gottfrid Stark (12 July 1944 – 13 June 2017) was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film '' Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen''). Stark has collaborated with th ...

136pp., (

)

Awards

*2006: Grand Prix triennal de littérature de jeunesse *2010:

References

External links

Some examples from her work
from ''

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