Eric Carle, Frances Hardinge, Shirley Hughes, Margo Lanagan, and Patrick Ness are among the 237 candidates from 68 countries nominated to the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The candidates were presented by the jury at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 17. (Click to download a pdf version of the nomination list.)
The 237 nominees include 49 new names. The candidates represent all continents and are authors, illustrators, reading promoters and storytellers. 46 % are women, 41 % men and 13 % are organisations. More than a hundred nominating bodies worldwide have proposed candidates for the 2020 award.
Worth 5 million Swedish kronor, the world’s largest cash prize for children’s literature is given to authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and reading promoters for work “of the highest artistic quality” featuring the “humanistic values” of the late Pippi Longstocking author, for whom the award is named. Lindgren died in 2002 at the age of 94.
The 2020 ALMA laureate will be announced on March 31, 2020.
The full list follows the jump. Links lead to more information, often in the candidate’s own language. (Apologies for the appearance of “?” where WordPress won’t reproduce the appropriate character.)
Antigua and Barbuda
Joy Lawrence, Promoter of reading
Argentina
Maria Teresa Andruetto, Author Web page
CEDILIJ, Organisation
Jorge Luján, Author
María Wernicke, Author/Illustrator Web page
Australia
Randa Abdel-Fattah, Author Web page
Jeannie Baker, Illustrator Web page
Bronwyn Bancroft, Illustrator Web page
Ursula Dubosarsky, Author Web page
Susanne Gervay, Author Web page
Morris Gleitzman, Author Web page
Indigenous Literary Foundation, Organisation Web page
Robert Ingpen, Illustrator Web page
Margo Lanagan, Author Web page
Magabala Books, Organisation Web page
Melina Marchetta, Author Web page
The Literature Centre, Organisation Web page
Austria
Renate Welsh-Rabady, Author
Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator
Azerbaijan
Solmaz Amanova, Author
Aynur Mammadova, Illustrator
Sevinj Nurugizi, Author Web page
Belarus
Piatro Vasiuchenka, Author
Belgium
Anne Brouillard, Author/Illustrator
Carll Cneut, Illustrator
Ingrid Godon, Illustrator Web page
Anne Herbauts, Author/Illustrator Web page
Thomas Lavachery, Author
Prix Bernard Versele, Organisation
Klaas Verplancke, Author/Illustrator Web page
Bolivia
Biblioteca Thurucapitas, Organisation
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mirsad Be?irbaši?, Author
Šimo Eši?, Author
Brazil
Roger Mello, Author/Illustrator Web page
Bulgaria
Maya Dalgacheva, Author
Julia Spiridonova, Author
Canada
Deborah Ellis, Author Web page
Marie-Francine Hébert, Author Web page
Jon Klassen, Author/Illustrator Web page
Uma Krishnaswami, Author Web page
Canada/Iran
Nahid Kazemi, Illustrator Web page
Chile
Fundación Había Una Vez, Organisation Web page
China
Gao Hongbo, Author
Liang Xiong, Author/Illustrator
Zhang Zhilu, Author
Colombia
Ivar Da Coll, Author/Illustrator
Proyecto Gulliver, Organisation Web page
Democratic Republic of Congo/United Kingdom
Dominique Mwankumi, Author/Illustrator Webb page
Croatia
Dubravka Kolanovi?, Illustrator Web page
Cyprus
Tsangaris Hambis, Illustrator
Czech Republic
Petr Nikl, Author/Illustrator
Kv?ta Pacovská, Illustrator
Denmark
Kim Fupz Aakeson, Author
Biblo.dk, Organisation Web page
Lilian Brøgger, Illustrator Web page
Louis Jensen, Author Web page
Dorte Karrebaek, Illustrator
Ecuador
Edna Iturralde, Author Web page
Egypt
Yacoub El-Sharouni, Author/Oral storyteller/Promoter of reading
Estonia
Ulla Saar, Illustrator Web page
Leelo Tungal, Author
Urmas Viik, Illustrator
Faroe Islands
Rakel Helmsdal, Author/Illustrator/Oral storyteller/Promoter of Reading Webb page
Finland
Linda Bondestam, Illustrator Web page
Marika Maijala, Author/Illustrator Web page
Timo Parvela, Author Web page
Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Author/Illustrator
Maria Turtschaninoff, Author Web page
France
A.C.C.E.S., Organisation Web page
L’Agence Quand les Livres Relient, Organisation Web page
Benjamin Chaud, Author/Illustrator Web page
Olivier Douzou, Author/Illustrator Web page
Timothée de Fombelle, Author Web page
Bernard Friot, Author Web page
Jean-Claude Mourlevat, Author Web page
Marie-Aude Murail, Author
Geneviéve Patte, Promoter of reading Web page
François Place, Author/Illustrator Web page
François Roca, Illustrator
Georgia
Giorgi Chachanidze, Illustrator
Bondo Matsaberidze, Author Web page
Tea Topuria, Author Web page
Mariam Tsiklauri, Author
Germany
Jutta Bauer, Illustrator Web page
Nadia Budde, Author/Illustrator Web page
Nikolaus Heidelbach, Illustrator
Internationale Jugendbibliothek, Organisation Web page
Janosch, Author/Illustrator
Labor Ateliergemeinschaft, Organisation Web page
Stiftung Lesen/German Reading Foundation, Organisation Web page
Greece
ECHO Refugee Library, Organisation Web page
Vagelis Iliopoulos, Author/Promoter of reading
Antonis Papatheodoulou, Author Web page
Greenland
Naja Rosing-Asvid, Author/Illustrator Web page
Lene Therkildsen, Promoter of reading Web page
Hungary
Istvan Csukas, Author
Tibor Zalán, Author
Iceland
Sigrún Eldjárn, Author/Illustrator
India
A & A Book Trust, Organisation Web page
Pratham Books, Organisation Web page
Iran
Children’s Book Council, Organisation Web page
Mehdi Hejvani, Promoter of Reading
Jamshid Khanian, Author Web page
Mobile Library of Iran, Organisation
Houshang Moradi Kermani, Author
Read with Me, Organisation Web page
Mohammad Reza Shams, Author
Aliasghar Seidabadi, Promoter of reading Web page
Ireland
PJ Lynch, Illustrator Web page
Sheena Wilkinson, Author Web page
Israel
Rutu Modan, Author/Illustrator
Italy
Beatrice Alemagna, Author/Illustrator Web page
Chiara Carminati, Author
Lampedusa Library, Organisation
Sarolta Szulyovszky, Illustrator Web page
Linda Wolfsgruber, Illustrator Web page
Japan
Kyoko Matsuoka, Promoter of reading Webpage
Seizo Tashima, Illustrator
Jordan
Taghrid al-Najjar, Author Web page
Republic of Korea
Heena Baek, Illustrator
Korean Children’s Book Association, Organisation
Lee Juyoung, Promoter of reading
Uk-Bae Lee, Illustrator
Latvia
Gundega Muzikante, Illustrator Web page
Gita Treice, Illustrator Web page
Lebanon/Belgium
Fatima Sharafeddine, Author Web page
Lithuania
Kestutis Kasparavicius, Author/Illustrator Web page
Netherlands
De Schrijverscentrale, Organisation Web page
Joke van Leeuwen, Author/Illustrator Web page
Gideon Samson, Author Web page
Toon Tellegen, Author
Thé Tjong-Khing, Illustrator Web page
Marit Törnqvist, Author/Illustrator Web page
Edward van de Vendel, Author
Sylvia Weve, Illustrator Web page
Nicaragua
German Nicaraguan Library and the Bibliobús Bertold
Brecht, Organisation Web page
Norway
Lene Ask, Illustrator Web page
Rune Belsvik, Author Web page
Gro Dahle, Author Web page
Harald Rosenløw Eeg, Author Web page
Stian Hole, Author/Illustrator
Marit Kaldhol, Author Web page
Leser Søker Bok, Organisation Web page
Gry Moursund, Author/Illustrator
Svein Nyhus, Author/Illustrator Web page
Maria Parr, Author Web page
Øyvind Torseter, Illustrator Web page
Palestine
Sonia Nimr, Author
Philippines
Virgilio Senadren Almario, Author
Kristiyano-Islam Peace Library, Organisation Web page
Neni Sta. Romana Cruz, Promoter of reading
Poland
All of Poland Reads to Kids, Organisation Web page
Iwona Chmielewska, Illustrator Web page
Pawe? Pawlak, Illustrator
Ma?gorzata Karolina Piekarska, Author Web page
Marcin Szczygielski, Author
Józef Wilko?, Illustrator Web page
Portugal
Bernardo P. Carvalho, Illustrator Web page
António Jorge Gonçalves, Illustrator Web page
Maria Teresa Maia Gonzales, Author
Catarina Sobral, Illustrator Web page
Romania
Florin Bican, Author/Oral storyteller/Promoter of reading
Andrea Kürti, Illustrator Web page
Vasile Olac, Illustrator
Russian Federation
Anastasia Arkhipova, Illustrator Web page
Ilga Ponornitskaya (Eugeniya Basova), Author
Nina Dashevskaya, Author
Russian State Children´s Library, Organisation
Alexander Traugot, Illustrator
Mikhail Yasnov, Author
Serbia
Jasminka Petrovi?, Author
Ljubivoje Ršumovi?, Author
Slovenia
Slavko Pregl, Author
Anja Štefan, Author
South Africa
Biblionef, Organisation Web page
Niki Daly, Author/Illustrator Web page
Gcina Mhlope, Author/Oral storyteller/Promoter of reading Web page
South Africa/South Africa
Beverley Naidoo, Author
Spain
Elena Odriozola, Illustrator Web page
Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Author Web page
Sudan
Salah Elmur, Illustrator Web page
Sweden
Eva Eriksson, Illustrator Web page
Gunna Grähs, Illustrator
Joanna Hellgren, Illustrator Web page
Olof Landström, Illustrator
Pija Lindenbaum, Author/Illustrator Web page
Eva Lindström, Author/Illustrator Web page
Frida Nilsson, Author Web page
Klara Persson, Author/Illustrator Web page
Anna-Clara Tidholm, Illustrator Web page
Cecilia Torudd, Author/Illustrator
Jakob Wegelius, Author/Illustrator Web page
Ilon Wikland, Illustrator
Monica Zak, Author/Oral storyteller/Promoter of reading Web page
Switzerland
Albertine, Illustrator Web page
Franz Hohler, Author Web page
Taiwan
Jimmy Liao, Author/Illustrator Web page
Turkey
Aytül Akal, Author Web page
Ayla Ç?naro?lu, Author/Illustrator Web page
Mustafa Delio?lu, Illustrator
Huban Korman, Illustrator Web page
Ukraine
Kateryna Shtanko, Illustrator
Lesia Voronyna, Author
United Kingdom
Allan Ahlberg, Author Web page
David Almond, Author Web page
Quentin Blake, Illustrator Web page
Theresa Breslin, Author Web page
Aidan Chambers, Author Web page
Aidan & Nancy Chambers, Promoters of reading Web page
Michael Foreman, Author/Illustrator Web page
Emily Gravett, Author/Illustrator Web page
Daniel Hahn, Promoter of reading Web page
Frances Hardinge, Author Web page
Shirley Hughes, Author/Illustrator Web page
Elizabeth Laird, Author Web page
Margaret Meek Spencer, Promoter of reading
Patrick Ness, Author Web page
Luke Pearson, Author/Illustrator Web page
Jan Pienkowski, Illustrator Web page
Katherine Rundell, Author Web page
Marcus Sedgwick, Author Web page
John Shelley, Illustrator Web page
David Wood, Author Web page
United States
Laurie Halse Anderson, Author Web page
Eric Carle, Author/Illustrator Web page
Kate DiCamillo, Author Web page
Margarita Engle, Author Web page
Maira Kalman, Author/Illustrator Web page
Stephen Krashen, Promoter of reading Web page
Christopher Myers, Author/Illustrator Web page
Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator Web page
Javaka Steptoe, Illustrator Web page
Tim Tingle, Oral storyteller Web page
Jack Zipes, Author/Promoter of reading
Zambia
Lubuto Library Partners, Organisation Web page
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