Over the next few weeks I plan to highlight various authors and illustrators from around the world who have been nominated by various IBBY sections as contenders for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award. Sixty-two candidates from 33 countries have been nominated for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award. Our Australian nominees are Margaret Wild and Tohby Riddle.
In my first post I will talk about Heinz Janisch from Austria. Here is the logo for IBBY in Austria - The International Institute for Children's Literature and Reading Research
Here is a quote from Heinz Janisch's web site:
"It is important to me that children experience books as gifts, like a kind of surprise bag: you open them and let yourself be surprised ..."
Heinz Janisch was born in Austria in 1960 in Güssing, Austria. and studied German literature in Vienna. He has published numerous books, including many children's titles, which have been translated into more than twelve languages. He was nominated for the 2009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and was nominated for the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 2008 he received the Austrian Picture Book Award. Heinz Janisch lives with his family in Vienna and in Burgenland. Simon and Schuster
Here are some books by Heinz I have mentioned on this blog:
You can see all of the children's books by Heniz Janisch on his web site. If you speak German you can listen to a video review of a very recent book by Heinz Janisch - Jaguar, Zebra, Nerz : Ein Jahresbuch. Here are some other titles available in English:
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