Astrid Lindgren memorial award
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The £400,000 Astrid Lindgren award rewards work ‘in the spirit of’ the Swedish author and this year’s nominees range from Argentina to Zambia
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Author of YA bestseller How I Live Now wins £430,000 prize, awarded annually to children’s authors and illustrators
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Newsflash: Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa is crowned this year’s laureate in world’s richest children’s books prize after fending off competition from authors such as David Almond, Neil Gaiman, Morris Gleitzman and others
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Th winner of the world's biggest international children's book award, the Astrid Lindgren Prize, is announced
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UK authors Quentin Blake and Neil Gaiman miss out as jury praises Kuijer's 'philosophical insight' and 'respect for children'
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Meg Rosoff, Michael Rosen and Quentin Blake among 17 UK writers nominated for world's richest children's literature prize
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A series of images from the work of Belgian illustrator and author Kitty Crowther, who won the Astrid Lindgren memorial award - the world's richest children's books prize, worth around £460,000 - yesterday
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Diana Wynne Jones, Quentin Blake, Jacqueline Wilson and Shirley Hughes among the authors in the running for the richest prize in children's literature
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Institute that works with children across the West Bank and Gaza Strip takes £422,000 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
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Edgar Allan Poe awards nominees annnounced to coincide with the great mystery writer's 200th anniversary
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Seven UK authors are in contention for the £400,000 Astrid Lindgren award
Twenty-three UK authors in running for 2017 Astrid Lindgren memorial award