Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (Template:Langx) 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.<ref name=SACouncil/><ref name=flood2012/> The annual cost of 10 million SEK (in 2008) is financed with tax money.<ref>Rapport, Sveriges Television, 12 March 2008.</ref>

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."<ref name=winners/> 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.<ref>Swedish Arts Council. Template:Webarchive</ref> Officially it is called "An award by the Swedish people to the world".<ref name=about/> 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."<ref name=about/>

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.<ref name=nominations/>

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.<ref name=winners/><ref name=alma_eng/>

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winners<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Year	Author	Country	Ref.
2003	Template:Sortname	Austria
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2004	Template:Sortname	Brazil
2005	Template:Sortname	Japan
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2006	Template:Sortname	United States	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2007	Banco del Libro	Venezuela	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2008	Template:Sortname	Australia	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2009	Tamer Institute for Community Education	Palestine	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2010	Template:Sortname	Belgium	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2011	Template:Sortname	Australia	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2012	Template:Sortname	Netherlands	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2013	Isol	Argentina	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2014	Template:Sortname	Sweden	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2015	Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA)	South Africa	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2016	Template:Sortname	United States/United Kingdom	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2017	Template:Sortname	Germany	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2018	Template:Sortname	United States	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2019	Template:Sortname	Belgium	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2020	Template:Sortname	South Korea	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2021	Template:Sortname	France	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2022	Template:Sortname	Sweden	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023	Template:Sortname	United States	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024	Indigenous Literacy Foundation	Australia	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2025	Marion Brunet	France	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref name="andersen" />

See also

• List of literary awards

Further reading

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• John A. Sellars (25 March 2014). "Barbro Lindgren Wins 2014 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award" Template:Webarchive. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2014-03-25.

• The American author Jacqueline Woodson is the laureate of Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2018. ALMA. Retrieved 2018-03-27. Template:Webarchive

External links

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