Awarded Astrid Lindgren Prize

The laureate of the 2017 Astrid Lindgren International Memory for contribution to the development of children's and youth literature was the American writer Jacqueline Woodson.

About this today, March 27, reports the Prize website .

Jacqueline Woodson (b. 1963) wrote more than thirty books for children and adolescents, the most famous of them is an autobiographical novel in the verses “Brown Girl Dreaming” (2014). In his definition, the jury notes that Jacqueline Woodson knows how to "catch a unique poetic note in everyday life, whether it be sad or hope."

This year, 235 children's writers, illustrators and organizations working with children from 60 countries of the world were nominated for the prize. Russia was represented by the writer Nina Dashevskaya and illustrators Anastasia Arkhipova, Anna Desnitskaya and Alexander Tygot, as well as the Russian State Children's Library.

The International Memory Astrid Lindgren, 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 ($ 613 thousand).

Writers, illustrators, publishers and readers, whose works convey the spirit of works by Astrid Lindgren, can be nominated for the award. A year ago, a German illustrator Wolf Erlbruh was received by the award.