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British lead nominations for world's richest children's book prize

The £400,000 Astrid Lindgren award rewards work ‘in the spirit of’ the Swedish author and this year’s nominees range from Argentina to Zambia

Published: 17 Oct 2019

Twenty-three UK authors in running for 2017 Astrid Lindgren memorial award

Shirley Hughes and Malorie Blackman are among the nominees for the world’s largest children’s literature prize, won in May of this year by Meg Rosoff

Published: 24 Oct 2016

Meg Rosoff wins £430,000 Astrid Lindgren memorial award

Author of YA bestseller How I Live Now wins £430,000 prize, awarded annually to children’s authors and illustrators

Published: 5 Apr 2016

Children's books
South African organisation wins Astrid Lindgren award 2015

Newsflash: Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa is crowned this year’s laureate in world’s richest children’s books prize after fending off competition from authors such as David Almond, Neil Gaiman, Morris Gleitzman and others

Published: 31 Mar 2015

Children's books
Winner of the Astrid Lindgren prize announced

Th winner of the world's biggest international children's book award, the Astrid Lindgren Prize, is announced

Published: 25 Mar 2014

Dutch author Guus Kuijer wins Astrid Lindgren memorial award

UK authors Quentin Blake and Neil Gaiman miss out as jury praises Kuijer's 'philosophical insight' and 'respect for children'

Published: 20 Mar 2012

Strong showing for UK authors on Astrid Lindgren award shortlist

Meg Rosoff, Michael Rosen and Quentin Blake among 17 UK writers nominated for world's richest children's literature prize

Published: 18 Oct 2011

Children's books
'Opening the door of imagination': the work of Astrid Lindgren award winner Kitty Crowther

A series of images from the work of Belgian illustrator and author Kitty Crowther, who won the Astrid Lindgren memorial award - the world's richest children's books prize, worth around £460,000 - yesterday

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Published: 25 Mar 2010

British children's authors make strong showing on line-up for lucrative Astrid Lindgren prize

Diana Wynne Jones, Quentin Blake, Jacqueline Wilson and Shirley Hughes among the authors in the running for the richest prize in children's literature

Published: 17 Sep 2009

Palestinian community educators win children's literature's richest prize

Institute that works with children across the West Bank and Gaza Strip takes £422,000 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Published: 24 Mar 2009

'Edgars' shortlist heralds Poe bicentenary

Edgar Allan Poe awards nominees annnounced to coincide with the great mystery writer's 200th anniversary

Published: 19 Jan 2009

Britons in running for richest children's book prize

Seven UK authors are in contention for the £400,000 Astrid Lindgren award

Published: 19 Sep 2008