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2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award to be announced April 2
Are you hoping for a familiar favorite or a total surprise? On Tuesday, April 2, the ALMA jury will name the person or persons who will receive the world’s most prestigious award in children’s and YA literature and the prize sum of SEK 5 million.
Time: Tuesday, April 2 at 1 p.m. Doors will open at approximately 12:45. The press conference will be led by Johar Bendjelloul with a welcome by Swedish Arts Council chair Ulrika Stuart Hamilton. ALMA jury chair Boel Westin will announce the decision of the jury. A full presentation of the laureate will follow.
Place: Bio Viktor in Filmhuset (The Film House), Borgvägen 1 in Stockholm. The event will be streamed live on alma.se, on social media, and at the international Children’s Book Fair in Bologna.
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is awarded this year for the seventeenth time. It honors achievements in children’s and YA literature in the broadest sense of that term. The jury does not consider previous awards or sales figures, but awards the prize sfor work of the utmost excellence to a laureate who shares the humanist values embodied in the life and work of Astrid Lindgren. Last year’s laureate was the American author Jacqueline Woodson. This year there are 246 candidates for the prize from 64 countries. The list of this year’s candidates is here.
To request press credentials for the announcement, please contact:
Mariella Kucer, Communications Officer
+46 076-5401017, mariella.kucer@alma.se
Earlier ALMA Laureates
2017 Wolf Erlbruch, Germany
2016 Meg Rosoff, United Kingdom/United States
2015 PRAESA, South Africa
2014 Barbro Lindgren, Sweden
2013 Isol, Argentina
2012 Guus Kuijer, Netherlands
2011 Shaun Tan, Australia
2010 Kitty Crowther, Belgium
2009 Tamer Institute, Palestine
2008 Sonya Hartnett, Australia
2007 Banco del Libro, Venezuela
2006 Katherine Paterson, United States
2005 Ryôji Arai, Japan and Philip Pullman, United Kingdom
2004 Lygia Bojunga, Brazil
2003 Christine Nöstlinger, Austria and Maurice Sendak, United States
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The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is the world's largest award for children's and young adult literature. The award, which amounts to SEK 5 million, is given annually to a single laureate or to several. Authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and reading promoters are eligible. The award is designed to promote interest in children's and young adult literature. The UN convention of rights of the child is the foundation of our work. An expert jury selects the laureate(s) from candidates nominated by institutions and organisations all over the world. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award was founded by the Swedish government in 2002 and is administrated by the Swedish Arts Council.
