Press release - 28 April 2011 15:22

Shaun Tan participates in award week in Sweden

The recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2011, the Australian Shaun Tan, arrives in Stockholm on May 21 to participate in the award week. The award week ends with a ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall, where Shaun Tan, the author of inter alia The Arrival, receives the Literature award from H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria. The award amount is 5 million SEK (approx. 750 000 USD).

On March 29, the illustrator and author Shaun Tan from Australia was announced as the recipient of the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award;

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 reference points, but the pictorial narrative is universal and touches everyone, regardless of age.

(From the jury citation)

Shaun Tan will arrive in Stockholm on May 21 to participate in the 2011 award week. The crescendo of the award week will be a solemn ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall on May 31, when Shaun Tan receives the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the hand of H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria. The host for the evening is the compere, author and UNICEF Godwill Ambassador Mark Levengood.

Information about the award week program will be published on www.alma.se/en. For further details, ackreditations and interviews, please contact helene.andersson@alma.se or +46 (0)76 540 10 17.

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Press contact Communications Officer andre.vifot.haas@kulturradet.se 0046 76-540 10 33

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