Mar 23, 2010
The 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the
most prestigious international award for children's books, has been given to British
author David Almond and German illustrator Jutta Bauer. The award, which was
announced Tuesday at the Bologna Book Fair, is given biennially by the
International Board on Books for Young People to an author and artist whose
work has made "a lasting contribution to children's literature." The winners
were narrowed down from a field of 28 writers and 27 illustrators, based on a
nine-month evaluation by this year's Andersen jury. Almond is published by
Delacorte Press in the U.S.,
and Bauer has been published by Kane-Miller and Candlewick Press.
In choosing Almond, the jury recognized "the unique voice of a creator of magic realism for children. His use of language is sophisticated and reaches across the ages." And Bauer's work was lauded for "her philosophical approach, originality, creativity as well as her ability to communicate with young readers."
IBBY also
awarded its biennial IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Awards, for projects run by
groups judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion for
young people, funded by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper company in Japan. Two organizations won the award this year: the Osu Children's
Library Fund of Ghana, a Canadian-based charity that has built and stocked libraries
in Ghana's capital and in more than 150 schools and villages in the country;
and to Convenio de Cooperatión al Plan de Lectura de Medellín, Colombia, for
its reading activities within the four poorest municipalities of that city.
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