Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

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The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is the world's largest children's and youth literature award. It was instituted by the Government of Sweden in 2002 in honour of the Swedish children's books author Astrid Lindgren. The prize is awarded annually to an amount of five million SEK, which is about US$700,000 or €550,000.

[edit] Laureates

2007: Banco del Libro (Venezuela)
2006: Katherine Paterson (United States)
2005: Philip Pullman (United Kingdom), Ryôji Arai (Japan)
2004: Lygia Bojunga Nunes (Brazil)
2003: Maurice Sendak (United States), Christine Nöstlinger (Austria)

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