International Awards
For more information about international IBBY honours, visit www.ibby.org.
The world's largest children's and youth literature award is presented to authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and those active in reading promotion work. The award may be presented to a single recipient or to several, regardless of language or nationality. The award of five million Swedish crowns is the second-largest literature prize in the world. __________________
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
The award is named in honour of Astrid Lindgren, Sweden's favourite author and one of the world's most popular. To honour her memory and promote children's and youth literature around the world, the Swedish government founded this international prize.
The 2007 winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award was IBBY Canada's nominee, Banco del Libro de Venezuela! (See Press Release.) Acclaimed author Jean Little was also nominated in 2007 and again in 2008.
IBBY Canada’s nominee for the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award was reading promotion organization Biblionef, South Africa. The winner of the 2010 award was Kitty Crowther. Learn more about Kitty Crowther and her work here. Read more about this award and its previous winners here.
Every other year IBBY presents the Hans Christian Andersen Awards to an author and an illustrator, living at the time of the nomination, whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's literature. Often called the "the little Nobel", the Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children's books. Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is the Patron of the Andersen Awards. The nominations are made by the National Sections of IBBY and a distinguished international jury of children's literature specialists selects the recipients. __________________
Hans Christian Andersen Awards
The Author's Award has been given since 1956 and the Illustrator's Award since 1966. The Award consists of a gold medal and a diploma, presented at a festive ceremony during the biennial IBBY Congress. A special Andersen Awards issue of IBBY's journal Bookbird presents all the nominees, and documents the selection process.
IBBY Canada is pleased to announce that author Brian Doyle and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay were Canada's nominees for the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Awards.Read recent news about the Hans Christian Andersen Award here.
The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of outstanding, recently published books, honouring writers, illustrators and translators from IBBY member countries. The National Sections that can nominate one book for each of the three categories select the titles. For a country with a substantial and continuing production of children's books in more than one language, up to three books may be submitted for writing and translation in different languages. __________________
IBBY Honour List
Important considerations in selecting the Honour List titles are that the books chosen be representative of the best in children's literature from each country and that the books are recommended as suitable for publication throughout the world. The IBBY Honour List is one of the most widespread and effective ways of furthering IBBY's objective of encouraging international understanding through children's literature.
The Honour List diplomas are presented to the recipients at the IBBY Congresses where the catalogue is introduced and the books are shown for the first time. Thereafter five parallel sets of the books circulate around the world at exhibitions during conferences and book fairs. The catalogue is sent to all National Sections and IBBY correspondents and is available free of charge. Permanent collections of the IBBY Honour List books are kept at the International Youth Library in Munich, the Swiss Children's Book Institute in Zurich and Bibiana Research Collection in Bratislava.
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IBBY Honour List
Every two years, in conjunction with the IBBY International Congress, member countries are asked to select their list of outstanding books for the prestigious IBBY Honour List. The list acknowledges writers, illustrators and translators. This year IBBY Canada selected six titles representing the best in recently published Canadian children's literature. For the first time we submitted a book (in the translation category) in one of Canada's First Nations official languages -- Dogrib!
We are pleased to announce the following IBBY Honour List Winners for 2010:
- English text: Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson (Penguin Canada, 2008)
- French text: Hush! Hush! by Michel Noel (Éditions Hurtubise, 2006)
- Illustration: La Petite Rapporteuse de Mots, illustrated by Geneviève Côté and written by Danielle Simard (Les Éditions Les 400 Coups, 2007)
- Translation English to French: L'Ombre de Malabron, by Thomas Wharton; translated by Dominique Fortier (Les Éditions du Trécarré Groupe Librex, 2008)
- Translation French to English: Pieces of Me (La Liberté? Connais pas…), by Charlotte Gingras; translated by Susan Ouriou (Kids Can Press, 2009) by Vital Thomas; translated by Mary Siemens; illustrated by Archie Beaulieu (Theytus Books, 2007)
- Translation English to Dogrib: Yamoózha Eyits’ o Wets’èkeè Tsà - Yamozha and His Beaver Wife, by Vital Thomas; translated by Mary Siemens; illustrated by Archie Beaulieu (Theytus Books, 2007)
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The IBBY Honour List Winners for 2008 were:
- English text: The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter. (Groundwood Books, 2006)
- French text: Ma vie ne sait pas nager by Élaine Turgeon, illustrated by Stéphane Poulin (Éditions Québec Amérique, 2006)
- Illustration: Fox Walked Alone written and illustrated by Barbara Reid (Scholastic Canada, 2006)
- Translation English to French: Fausse identité (Mistaken Identity) written by Norah McClintock; translated by Claudine Vivier (Éditions Hurtubise HMH, 2006
- Translation French to English: This Side of the Sky (Le ciel tombe à côté) written by Marie-Francine Hébert; translated by Susan Ouriou (Red Deer Press, 2006)
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Honour List Retrospective
IBBY Canada has published a full-colour limited-edition souvenir catalogue to commemorate the exhibit, which includes annotated listings of the Honour books and articles by members of the Canadian children's literature community.
The IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award was established in 1986 during the IBBY Congress in Tokyo under the sponsorship of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper company. It is given biennially to two groups or institutions whose outstanding activities are judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion programmes for children and young people. __________________
Asahi Award
The nominations are submitted by the National Sections of IBBY and may include projects from any part of the world. The jury consists of members of the IBBY Executive Committee. The prize of US$ 10,000 and a diploma is presented to the winners at the biennial IBBY Congress.
IBBY Canada’s nominee for the 2010 Asahi Award was the OSU Children's Library Fund for their work in Ghana. IBBY Canada is delighted that our nominee has won the 2010 award! For more information about the award and the OSU Children's Library Fund, please read the international press release, and our coverage in the IBBY Canada Winter 2009 newsletter.
Visit the international award page for more information about the award – and check out the News Release for the latest information.
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