CILIP submits nominations for the world’s largest children’s and youth literature prize
A panel from CILIP’s Youth Libraries Group, School Libraries Group and Education Libraries Group will review nominations from members and choose the candidates that CILIP will put forward for the 2012 prize.
Award background
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is an international award for literature for children and young people. The aim of the award is to strengthen and increase interest in literature for children and young people around the world, and also to promote children’s rights.
The award is five million Swedish kronor, over £450,000, making it the world’s largest prize for children’s and young people’s literature and the second largest literary prize in the world. It is awarded by the Swedish Arts Council.
Past winners include Philip Pullman; Banco del Libro for disseminating books and promoting reading among children in Venezuela; and the Tamer Institute for promoting reading to children and young people in the West Bank and Gaza.
Illustrator Shaun Tan won the 2011 Award.
For more information visit the award website.