Awarded Astrid Lindgren Prize

The American-British writer Meg Rozoff became the laureate of the 2016 Astrid Lindgren International Memory for contribution to the development of children's and youth literature.

This was reported by the Prize website .

“Mag -Rozoff youth novels turn to the feeling and to the mind. In her brilliant prose, she speaks of the search for meaning and identity in a bizarre and strange world. Her bold, full of humor of history is truly unique. There is no reader whom they would leave indifferent, ”the Jury of the Astrid Lindgren prize said in a statement.

Meg Rozoff was born in 1956 in Boston, since 1989 he has been living and working in the UK. The author of the seven novels, the most famous of which became “how I now live” (2004) and “just in case” (2006).

The Astrid Lindgren memory prize, founded by the Sweden government in 2002, is the world's largest reward in the field of children's literature: its prize fund is 5 million Swedish crowns (about $ 614 thousand).