Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

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The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is one of the world’s largest and most prestigious international prizes for children’s and young adult literature, honoring authors, illustrators, storytellers, and reading promoters.

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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award canonical 2

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instanceOf children's literature award
literary award
administeredBy Swedish Arts Council NERFINISHED
aim to promote the rights of children
to strengthen and increase interest in children's and young adult literature worldwide
awardAmount 5 million Swedish kronor
awardedFor children's literature
illustration
promotion of reading
storytelling
young adult literature
country Sweden
countryOfOrigin Sweden
currency Swedish krona NERFINISHED
eligibility authors
illustrators
living persons
organizations
reading promoters
storytellers
field literature
reading promotion
firstAwarded 2003
foundedBy Government of Sweden NERFINISHED
frequency annual
genre children's and young adult literature
inception 2002
location Stockholm NERFINISHED
motto For the right of children to great stories
namedAfter Astrid Lindgren NERFINISHED
notableLaureate Barbro Lindgren NERFINISHED
Isol NERFINISHED
Jacqueline Woodson NERFINISHED
Katherine Paterson NERFINISHED
Laurie Halse Anderson NERFINISHED
Maurice Sendak NERFINISHED
Meg Rosoff NERFINISHED
Philip Pullman NERFINISHED
Shaun Tan NERFINISHED
Wolf Erlbruch NERFINISHED
officialLanguage English
Swedish
scope international
selectionProcess nominations from organizations worldwide
sponsor Swedish Arts Council NERFINISHED
website https://alma.se

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Philip Pullman awardReceived Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Astrid Lindgren commemoratedBy Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award