International Awards
For more information about international IBBY honours, visit www.ibby.org.
__________________ Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award The world's largest children's and youth literature award honours authors, illustrators, story-tellers, people, and organizations that make valuable contributions to the promotion of reading. The award is of five million Swedish crowns and is the second-largest literature prize in the world.
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 in her name.
The 2007 winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is IBBY Canada's nominee, Banco del Libro de Venezuela! Our other nominee was acclaimed author Jean Little. Read more about this award here and in our News Release.
__________________ Hans Christian Andersen Awards 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.
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 Pierre Pratt are Canada's nominees for the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Awards.
__________________ IBBY Honour List 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.
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, and, as a bilingual country, Canada is eligible to select five books that represent the best in recently published Canadian children's literature.
We are pleased to announce the following IBBY Honour List Winners for 2008:
- 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)
The IBBY Honour List Winners for 2006 were:
- English text: Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. (HarperCollins, 2004)
- French text: J'ai vendu ma soeur by Danielle Simard (Soulières éditeur, 2002)
- Illustration: La Chasse-galerie (The Flying Canoe) by Roch Carrier, illustrated by Sheldon Cohen, English translation by Sheila Fischman (Tundra Books, 2004)
- Translation French to English: Good for Nothing by Michel Noël; compilation translated by Shelley Tanaka (Groundwood Books, 2004); French: Journal d'un bon à rien (1999), Coeur sur la braise (2000), Hiver indien (2001), (Hurtubise HMH)
- Translation English to French: Les sculpteurs de rêves by Joan Clark; translated by Catherine Germain (Éditions Pierre Tisseyre, 2004); English: The Dream Carvers (Viking Canada, 1995)
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Honour List Retrospective
In celebration of our 20th anniversary, IBBY Canada organized a first-ever travelling exhibit of the Canadian nominees to the IBBY Honour List. The retrospective featured the Canadian Honour books of the last twenty years as well as the full international list for 2000.
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.
__________________ Asahi Award 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 annually to a group or an institution which, by its outstanding activities, is judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion programmes for children and young people.
The nominations are submitted by the National Sections of IBBY and may include projects from any part of the world. The Jury consists of five members of the IBBY Executive Committee who choose the winner during the autumn meeting of the Executive Committee. The prize, which consists of one million Japanese Yen and a diploma, is presented to the winner at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
Read the News Release for more information.
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