The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children's books. Given every other year by IBBY, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards recognise lifelong achievement and are presented to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children's literature.
The Award recipients are selected by a distinguished international jury of children's literature specialists. Tomorrow the ten Hans Christian Andersen jury members begin their five days of deliberations to select one author and one illustrator to win the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen medals. You can see past winners here.
Sixty-two candidates from 33 countries have been nominated for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award. Here is the full list and the blue links take you to my sixteen previous posts featuring the nominated illustrators (and a few authors too):
Argentina: Author María Cristina Ramos; Illustrator Gusti
Australia: Author Margaret Wild; Illustrator Tohby Riddle
Austria: Author Heinz Janisch; Illustrator Linda Wolfsgruber
Belgium: Author Thomas Lavachery; Illustrator Carll Cneut
Brazil: Author Marina Colasanti; Illustrator Nelson Cruz
Canada: Author Angèle Delaunois; Illustrator Sydney Smith
China: Author Jin Bo; Illustrator Xiong Liang
Colombia and Venezuela: Illustrator Ivar Da Coll
Croatia: Illustrator Dubravka Kolanović
Cyprus: Author Anna Kouppanou; Illustrator Dora Oronti
Estonia: Author Andrus Kivirähk; Illustrator Piret Raud
France: Author Marie-Aude Murail; Illustrator Gilles Bachelet
Germany: Author Andreas Steinhöfel; Illustrator Nikolaus Heidelbach
Greece: Author Maria Papayanni; Illustrator Iris Samartzi
Hungary: Author András Dániel; Illustrator László Herbszt
Iran: Author Jamshid Khanian; Illustrator Pejman Rahimizadeh
Italy: Author Roberto Piumini; Illustrator Beatrice Alemagna
Japan: Author Joko Iwase; Illustrator Ryoji Arai
Republic of Korea: Author Yi Hyeon; Illustrator Suzy Lee
Latvia: Illustrator Aleksejs Naumovs
Lebanon: Author Fatima Sharafeddine; Illustrator Sinan Hallak
Lithuania: Illustrator Kestutis Kasparavičius
Netherlands: Author Tonke Dragt; Illustrator Sylvia Weve
Poland: Author Marcin Szczygielski; Illustrator Iwona Chmielewska
Russia: Author Sergey Makhotin; Illustrator Julja Gukova
Slovenia: Author Peter Svetina; Illustrator Damijan Stepančič
Spain: Author Jordi Sierra i Fabra; Illustrator Elena Odriozola
Sweden: Author Annika Thor; Illustrator Anna Bengtsson
Switzerland: Author Franz Hohler; Illustrator Catherine Louis
Turkey: Author Behiç Ak; Illustrator Mustafa Delioğlu
Ukraine: Author Halyna Malyk; Illustrator Kost' Lavro
United Kingdom: Author Marcus Sedgwick; Illustrator David McKee
USA: Author Linda Sue Park; Illustrator Kadir Nelson
The following were selected to serve as members of the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury under the guidance of Jury President, Junko Yokota (USA): Antoine Al Chartouni (Lebanon), Marilar Aleixandre (Spain), Evelyn Arizpe (Mexico/UK), Mariella Bertelli (Canada), Tina Bilban (Slovenia), Viviane Ezratty (France), Jiwone Lee (South Korea), Robin Morrow (Australia), Jaana Pesonen (Finland) and Cecilia Ana Repetti (Argentina). IBBY Executive Director Liz Page is an ex officio Jury member.
Here are a few book covers to spark your interest (note while all of these are by HCAA nominated illustrators not all are covers from their five books which have been submitted to the jury). If you click on each illustrator above you can see the list of books which the jury have been reading along with links to web sites, dossiers, interviews, other books, book reviews and more. It is true not all of the books I have discovered over the last few weeks are in print and many are not available in English but I have loved exploring the amazing work of these illustrators from around the world - the best of the best - as selected by each IBBY Section. IBBY have a Facebook page and over the last months they have also included a post about each of the illustrators listed above.
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