News - 21 May 2011 13:20

Pressinformation for the Award Week

Today, Shaun Tan, the recipient of the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, arrives to Sweden to participate in the award week 21-31 of May. The award week program, press releases, photos and illustrations are available at www.alma.se

The events and activities throughout the week will be documented and information and new pictures will be published continuously at www.alma.se and in the press room at www.mynewsdesk.se. Publication of these photographs is free on the condition that the name of the photographer, Stefan Tell, is given.

Interviews with Shaun Tan and the Chairman of the Jury Mr. Larry Lempert, and clips from the award ceremony in The Stockholm Concert Hall May 31 will be available at www.thenewsmarket.com/Sweden on the evening of the 31^st. If you are using the service for the first time please register. For questions, contact journalisthelp@thenewsmarket.com

Those interested in covering the award ceremony in The Stockholm Concert Hall on May 31st are welcome to seek accreditation, but no later than May 26.

For interviews with Shaun Tan during his visit to Sweden and for accreditation to attend the events of the award week, please contact helene.andersson@alma.se tel. 076-540 10 17, or rebecka.svensen@alma.se tel. 076-540 10 20.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature. The award, which amounts to SEK 5 million, is awarded annually to a single recipient or to several. Authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and those active in reading promotion may be rewarded. The award is designed to promote interest in children's and young adult literature, and in children's rights, globally. An expert jury selects the winners from candidates nominated by institutions and organisations worldwide. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is administered by the Swedish Arts Council.

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The recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2011 is Shaun Tan

Shaun Tan is an illustrator and author, born in 1974, who lives and works in Australia. The jury’s citation reads as follows:
Shaun Tan is a masterly visual storyteller, pointing the way ahead to new possibilities for picture books. His pictorial worlds constitute a separate universe where nothing is self-evident and anything is possible. Memories of childhood and adolescence are fixed referenc

28 April 2011 15:22

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11 May 2011 15:39

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