Hans Christian Andersen Award

The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two literary awards by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for their "lasting contribution to children's literature".[1] The writing award was inaugurated in 1956, the illustration award in 1966. The former is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize for children's literature".

Not to be confused with Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

Hans Christian Andersen Award
Awarded forOutstanding and lasting contribution to children's literature
Presented byInternational Board on Books for Young People
First awarded1956 (1956)
Websiteibby.org

The awards are named after Hans Christian Andersen, the 19th-century Danish author of fairy tales, and each winner receives the Hans Christian Andersen Medaille, a gold medal with the bust of Andersen (see image). Medals are presented at the biennial IBBY Congress. The Patron of the Andersen Awards is Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and the awards are sponsored by Nami Island Inc.

Process

National Sections of IBBY may nominate one author and one illustrator each and the Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury considers only those nominees. National Sections also nominate the ten distinguished, international Jury Members plus the Jury President. The shortlist of nominees is presented in January and the award winners are announced at the annual Bologna Children's Book Fair, in March or April.

The selection criteria include the aesthetic and literary qualities of writing and illustrating as well as the ability to see things from the child's point of view and the ability to stretch the child's curiosity and imagination. The complete works of the author and of the illustrator will be taken into consideration.

Winners

See also "Hans Christian Andersen Award Winners 1956–2018"[2]

The 2020 winners are Jacqueline Woodson (USA) for writing and Albertine (Switzerland) for illustration.[3] The runners-up are:

YearWritingIllustration
WinnerCountryWinnerCountry
1956Eleanor Farjeon United Kingdom
1958Astrid Lindgren Sweden
1960Erich Kästner Germany
1962Meindert DeJong USA
1964René Guillot France
1966Tove Jansson FinlandAlois Carigiet  Switzerland
1968James Krüss GermanyJiří Trnka Czechoslovakia
José Maria Sanchez-Silva Spain
1970Gianni Rodari ItalyMaurice Sendak USA
1972Scott O'Dell USAIb Spang Olsen Denmark
1974Maria Gripe SwedenFarshid Mesghali Iran
1976Cecil Bødker DenmarkTatjana Mawrina Soviet Union
1978Paula Fox USASvend Otto S. Denmark
1980Bohumil Říha CzechoslovakiaSuekichi Akaba Japan
1982Lygia Bojunga Nunes BrazilZbigniew Rychlicki Poland
1984Christine Nöstlinger AustriaMitsumasa Anno Japan
1986Patricia Wrightson AustraliaRobert Ingpen Australia
1988Annie M. G. Schmidt NetherlandsDusan Kállay Czechoslovakia
1990Tormod Haugen NorwayLisbeth Zwerger Austria
1992Virginia Hamilton USAKvěta Pacovská Czechoslovakia[lower-alpha 1]
1994Michio Mado JapanJörg Müller  Switzerland
1996Uri Orlev IsraelKlaus Ensikat Germany
1998Katherine Paterson USATomi Ungerer France
2000Ana Maria Machado BrazilAnthony Browne United Kingdom
2002Aidan Chambers United KingdomQuentin Blake United Kingdom
2004Martin Waddell IrelandMax Velthuijs Netherlands
2006Margaret Mahy New ZealandWolf Erlbruch Germany
2008Jürg Schubiger  SwitzerlandRoberto Innocenti Italy
2010David Almond United KingdomJutta Bauer Germany
2012María Teresa Andruetto ArgentinaPeter Sís Czech Republic[lower-alpha 2]
2014Nahoko Uehashi JapanRoger Mello Brazil
2016Cao Wenxuan ChinaRotraut Susanne Berner Germany
2018Eiko Kadono JapanIgor Oleynikov Russia
2020Jacqueline Woodson USAAlbertine  Switzerland

Jury Presidents

Jella Lepman established the International Youth Library in Munich in 1949 and organised the 1952 conference "International Understanding through Children's Books" that led to the establishment of IBBY in Zurich in 1953. She served as Jury President for the first three Andersen Awards, 1956 to 1960, and remained on the jury until her death in 1970, as the President of IBBY and then as its honorary president. Current four-year terms cover two award cycles.[5]

  • Jella Lepman 1956-60 (Switzerland)
  • José-Miguel de Azaola 1960-70 (Spain)
  • Virginia Haviland 1970-74 (USA)
  • Lucia Binder 1974-78 (Austria)
  • Dusan Roll 1978-82 (Czecho-Slovakia)
  • Patricia Crampton 1982-86 (UK)
  • Ana Maria Machado 1986-90 (Brazil)
  • Eva Glistrup 1990-94 (Denmark)
  • Peter Schneck 1994-98 (Austria)
  • Jay Heale 1998-2002 (South-Africa)
  • Jeffrey Garrett 2002-06 (USA)
  • Zohreh Ghaeni 2006-10 (Iran)
  • María Jesús Gil Iglesia 2010-14 (Spain)
  • Patricia Aldana 2014-18 (Canada)
  • Junko Yokota 2020-22 (USA)[6]

Machado subsequently won the Writing Award.

See also

Notes
  1. Pacovská received the award one year before Czechoslovakia dissolved into its constituent states.
  2. Sis was nominated by the extant Czech Republic. He was born in the former Czechoslovakia and educated there in Applied Arts. He has been a U.S. citizen from 1982.

References
  1. "Hans Christian Andersen Awards". International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Retrieved 2012-08-20.
  2. "Hans Christian Andersen Award Winners 1956–2018". Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature. 57 (4): 19–19. 2019. doi:10.1353/bkb.2019.0069. ISSN 1918-6983.
  3. "2020 HCAA Winners". International Board on Books for Young People. 4 May 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  4. "2020 HCAA Winners". International Board on Books for Young People. 4 May 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  5. "Hans Christian Award jury members". Glistrup, ed., pp. 119–24. Retrieved 2013-07-12.
  6. "Hans Christian Andersen Awards: IBBY official website". www.ibby.org. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
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