Hans Christian Andersen Prize - literary prize, which is awarded to the best children's writers and illustrators. Established in 1956 by the International Council for Children's and Youth Literature of UNESCO. Awarded once every two years. The prize is awarded on the second of April - the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen. On the initiative and decision of the International Council, as a sign of deep respect and love for G.-H. Andersen, in 1967 April 2 was declared International Children's Book Day.

The laureates - writer and artist - are awarded gold medals with a profile of Hans Christian Andersen and diplomas of honor for the best children's and youth books recently published in countries that are members of the International Council.

The first to receive the “little Nobel Prize” was Eleanor Farjeon from England in 1956, who wrote many fairy tales, and in Russia is known for her translations of the books “The Seventh Princess” and “I Want to Go to the Moon.” And the famous Astrid Lindgren was awarded this prize in 1958.

Laureates of the International Hans Christian Andersen Prize in different times became many world-famous writers, for example, Gianni Rodari from Italy, German storytellers James Crews and Erich Kästner, Austrian writer Christine Nestlinger, Czechoslovakian Bohumil Rzhiga and many others.

Many Russians - writers, illustrators, translators - were awarded Honorary Diplomas. The prize was awarded to a representative of the USSR only once - in 1976, the medal was awarded to Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina, an illustrator of a children's book. In 1972, the International Jury especially noted the work of Sergei Mikhalkov, and in 1976 - Agnia Barto.

In different years, honorary diplomas were awarded to the writers Shaukat Galiev for the children's Tatar book, translated into Russian “Hare on exercises”, Anatoly Aleksin for the story “Characters and Performers”, Valery Medvedev for the poem “Barankin’s Fantasies”, Yuri Koval for a book of stories and the stories “The Lightest Boat in the World”, Eno Raud for the first part of the tetralogy of fairy tales “Muff, Polbotinka and Moss Beard” and others; illustrators Yuri Vasnetsov, Viktor Chizhikov, Evgeniy Rachev and others; translators Boris Zakhoder, Irina Tokmakova, Lyudmila Brauda.

At the 56th International Exhibition “Bologna Children's Book Fair 2018” the winner of the H. C. Andersen Prize was announced. For 62 years now, this award has been recognizing the best children's writers and illustrators in the world. It is not for nothing that it is called “Small Nobel Prize».

In 2018 best illustrator was named Oleynikov Igor Yulievich.
For the first time since 1976, after the triumph of Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina, an artist from Russia received this honorary award.

The jury highly appreciated his work on the editions of the books “The Nightingale” by Andersen, “The Adventures of Despereaux the Mouse” by Kate Dicamillo, “Everybody Runs, Flys and Jumps” by Daniil Kharms and others. “This outstanding illustrator knows how to breathe life into books in a way that others may envy. He created a number of incredible characters. The Russian art school, style and passion can be felt in Oleinikov’s works.”, says the jury's verdict.

Igor Oleynikov(born January 4, 1953) - Russian artist, book illustrator. Born in the small town of Lyubertsy near Moscow. Since childhood, he was passionate about drawing thanks to his mother, an artist, but he entered a technical university. Oleinikov does not have a special art education, but looking at his fabulous magical illustrations, it’s hard to believe it. To create his unique style, he uses gouache and dry brush, obtaining texture and roughness, which can play out differently, depending on the artist’s intention.

Igor Oleynikov worked at the Soyuzmultfilm studio from 1979 to 1990, having a hand in creating the cartoons “The Secret of the Third Planet,” “The Tale of Tsar Saltan,” and “Caliph the Stork.” Oleinikov drew illustrations for children's periodicals("Streetcar", "Sesame Street").

Over 42 years, Igor Oleinikov illustrated about 100 books, including the following books published in Nikaia: “ Snow Queen"Hans Christian Andersen, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, "The Ox and the Donkey in the Manger" by Jules Supervielle, a collection of military prose "This is us, Lord!", "The Magic Tree" by Andrei Usachev, "Bible Stories for Children", and also calendars and posters.

In 2009, Igor Yulievich left animation and since then has worked only as a book illustrator.

Eiko Kadono(born January 1, 1935) is a Japanese writer, author of short stories, essays, and children's books. Visiting Professor at Nihon Fukushi University.

Eiko Kadono was born in Tokyo. Her father did his best to fill Eiko's world with early years a variety of stories, especially traditional fairy tales. When Eiko learned to read, she escaped the hardships of post-war Japan by studying books. Her favorite works were mystical stories Edogawa Rampo and Japanese translations Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Eliza Burnett, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson and books by Tolstoy, including Childhood and Boyhood.

Most of Eiko Kadono's books are intended for children. In 1985, she published the novel Kiki's Delivery Service, which later became the basis for an animated film of the same name directed by Hayao Miyazaki. For this book, Eiko Kadono was awarded the Noma Debut Literary Prize for children's work, and also produced a hugely popular cartoon, which prompted her to write five more books as a sequel.

The book "Kiki's Delivery Service" tells the story of a young witch, Kiki, and her talking cat Ji-ji, who fly away from home to the unfamiliar seaside town of Koriko to undergo a kind of internship for young witches. There she opens a delivery service using her broom as transport. As the story progresses, the heroine overcomes various difficulties of adult life.

Eiko is currently a professional writer and has received numerous awards, including the Obunsha Children's Literature Award, the Noma Literary Award.
Eiko now lives in ancient city Kamakura, Japan.

On April 4, at the annual International Exhibition (Fair) of Children's Books in Bologna (Italy), the jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize announced the winners of 2016.

Best children's writer, who received a “small Nobel”, became Cao Wen-Hsuan from China,
A Best Illustrator - Rotraut Suzanne Berner from Germany.

The jury's decision was made unanimously because Cao Wen-Hsuan“writes beautifully about the complex lives of children facing great challenges.” The chairman of the award jury, Patricia Aldana, called Cao’s books “deeply humanistic”; they talk about children with a difficult fate: about those who grew up during the “cultural revolution”, about children with Down syndrome... “All my books take place in China, they are Chinese history. But at the same time, these are the stories of all humanity,” says Cao. Among his works, literary scholars especially note the stories “The Hut,” “Bronze and Sunflower,” “The Brand,” as well as several collections.

Cao Wen-Xuan is a professor of Chinese and children's literature at Peking University. He is well known in literary circles in China and is the winner of several Chinese awards. His works have been translated into English, French, German, Japanese and other languages.

Berner Rotraut Susanna- German children's writer and illustrator.
Since 1977 she has been working in the field book illustration and during this time she became one of the most famous German children's writers and book illustrators.
In 1994, she released her first book with her own texts. Her most famous books - a series of five educational and educational picture books about the Town and its inhabitants - have become popular in many countries around the world. Over the course of her career, Berner has illustrated more than 80 books for children and young adults, and created approximately 800 covers.

Writer and poet Andrei Usachev and illustrator Katya Tolstaya were nominated from Russia this year.

On March 24, 2014, the International Children's Book Council IBBY announced the names of the 2014 Andersen Prize winners. They became Japanese writer Uehashi Nahoko(Uehashi Nahoko) and Brazilian illustrator Roger Mello(Roger Mello).

The award jury noted that the writer Uehashi Nahoko, selected from 28 applicants, has a unique ability to create various fantasy worlds, drawing on traditional Japanese mythology and great respect for nature and all sentient beings.

The work of Roger Mello, the best of 30 applicants, according to the jury, gives the child the opportunity to explore the history and culture of Brazil, allowing him to go through it with his own imagination.

Uehashi Nahoko writes mainly in the fantasy genre and is very popular in Japan. In addition to the Andersen Prize, the writer also received many literary awards.

Japanese writer Nahoko Uehashi was born in 1962. At the university she studied as an anthropologist, and then defended her doctoral dissertation, which was dedicated to the Australian Aborigines. Now she not only writes books for children and teenagers, but also teaches ethnology at a university in Tokyo. Uehashi's work is greatly influenced by traditional Japanese myths and legends. As an anthropologist, she uses her knowledge to create magical worlds in her books, which are largely based on the culture of ancient East Asia.

She is best known for her Guardian books, fantasy stories about a girl warrior, many of which have been translated into European languages. In 2004, the fifth book in the series, Kami no Moribito (God's Guardian), was included in the IBBY Book Honor List. Uehashi's books are being adapted for television, manga is being drawn from them, and radio plays are being staged.

Roger Mello was born and for a long time lived in the capital of Brazil, then moved to study and work in Rio de Janeiro. Having received education as a designer, he worked in various fields of art: cinema, theater, illustration.

This is an unusually prolific author: in 15 years he has illustrated more than a hundred books, about twenty of which were written by himself. Melu draws inspiration from a variety of sources, primarily from folk art and pop culture. His books abound in the rich colors of his native country, combined with traditional patterns and shapes borrowed from European art XX century. Melu prefers to create picture books with a minimum of text or no words at all: after all, children also begin to perceive the world first through visual images, and then through words. In this he is similar to many other illustrators from Latin America and Spain, who tell their stories with colorful brushstrokes and energetic silhouettes.

The Little Nobel Prize, as this prestigious international prize for children's literature is often called, is awarded by the International Board on Children's Books (IBBY).

The 2016 laureates of the G.Kh. Andersen became writer Cao Wenxuan (China) and illustratorRotraut Susanne Berner(Germany).

On April 4, 2016, at the International Children's Book Fair in Bologna, Patricia Aldana, President of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize Jury, announced the winners and thanked Nami Island Inc of the Republic of Korea for sponsoring this prestigious award. The award ceremony will take place during the 35th IBBY International Congress in New Zealand in August this year.

Writer Cao Wenxuan(China)

It was a unanimous choice of the jury. Writer Cao Wenxuan writes about the difficult lives of children who face great challenges. He writes about what he himself encountered! A difficult childhood had a profound influence on his works, which contain no simple truths or ready-made answers.

One of his “iconic” books, the story “Bronze and Sunflower,” takes the reader back to the time of the Cultural Revolution in China. The action takes place in a small rural village, where a Center for “re-education” of people expelled from the city has been built. A mute village boy and a small city girl who comes to live with his rural family literally save each other with care and warmth. And the reader is deeply concerned about the fate of the children.

Another story by the writer tells about two brothers with Down syndrome. They left their villages at different times and then searched for each other for a long time in a world that alternately pitied, loved and rejected them.

These are not simple works, they openly say that life is often tragic and that children can suffer. At the same time, they affirm the best human qualities, preach love and kindness, and offer what children most need - hope!

Cao Wenxuan is an excellent example of how to write wonderful prose, where amazingly lyrical and beautiful lines are written about nature. And tell stories about brave children who face great difficulties and challenges.

His works attract a wide readership and, not only children's, help to form literary tradition in China, which reflects the realities of the children's world.

Books Cao Wenxuan find an enthusiastic response from readers in England and France, Germany and Italy, and Korea. But children in many countries have yet to discover this wonderful writer.

ArtistRotraut Susanne Berner (Germany)

Works Suzanne Berner She is distinguished by a bright personality; her illustrations are easily recognizable by their active reaction to the demands of the text.

Drawings for children's books Suzanne Berner can be hilariously funny and no less touching. She is not afraid to show the dark moments of life and build intricate and complex worlds filled with small, important narrative details that take the viewer on a long visual journey.

Children everywhere deserve to meet and experience Susanne Berner's brilliant and humane, richly emotional and deeply engaging unique illustrations for children's books.

Jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize noted the high quality of many materials submitted for the Prize. Unfortunately, many of the authors and illustrators have not been widely published internationally. This does not mean that they are not at the forefront of authors working for children. In modern conditions, many books are undeservedly ignored by publishers, considering them difficult to translate.

However, in the jury's work, the first criterion for selecting nominees and winners was artistic excellence in writing and illustration. The jury was also interested to see how the nominee's professional career developed and whether he was ready to take creative risks. And finally What the nominee says to the children? It should be interesting, understandable and meaningful, and enrich the child's life.

Prize winners must be creators whose books necessary read to children all over the world, say members of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize Jury.

Jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize 2016(alphabetical order by country):
Patricia Aldana, Chairman of the Jury, Canada, Professor of Children's Literature
Lola Rubio, Argentina, editor and librarian
Dolores Prades, Brazil, publisher and expert
Wu Qing, China, Professor of English Literature
Kirsten Bystrup, Denmark, children's librarian
Yasmine Motawy. Egypt, professor of children's literature
Shoreh Yousefi, Iran, preschool teacher and editor
Andrew Ilc. Slovenia. children's book publisher
Reina Duarte, Spain. children's book publisher
Susan Stan, USA, professor of children's literature
Maria Beatriz Medina, Venezuela, director of BANCO del Libro, professor

Short listnominees 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Awards:
Illustrators:
Germany: Rotraut Susanne Berner
Iran: Pejman Rahimizadeh
Italy: Alessandro Sanna
Korea: Suzy Lee
Netherlands: Marit Törnqvist

Writers:
China:
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On April 2, the birthday of H. C. Andersen, every two years children's writers and artists are awarded the main award - the International Prize named after the great storyteller with a gold medal - the most prestigious international award, which is often called the “Small Nobel Prize”. A gold medal with the profile of a great storyteller is awarded to the laureates at the next congress of the International Council on Children's Books (IBBY is now the most authoritative organization in the world, uniting writers, artists, literary scholars, and librarians from more than sixty countries). According to its status, the award is awarded only to living writers and artists.

The prize for writers has been approved since 1956, for illustrators since 1966. Over the years, 23 writers and 17 children's book illustrators - representatives of 20 countries - have become Andersen Prize laureates.

The history of the award is inextricably linked with the name of the outstanding figure in world children's literature, Ella Lepman (1891-1970).
E. Lepman was born in Germany, in Stuttgart. During the Second World War she emigrated to the United States, but Switzerland became her second home. From here, from Zurich, came her ideas and deeds, the essence of which was to build a bridge of mutual understanding and international cooperation through a book for children. Ella Lepman managed to do a lot. And it was Ella Lepman who initiated the establishment in 1956 of the International Prize named after. H.K.Andersen. Since 1966, the same prize has been awarded to an illustrator of a children's book.

The Russian Children's Book Council has been a member of the International Children's Book Council since 1968. But so far there are no laureates of this organization Russian writers. But among illustrators there is such a laureate. In 1976, the Andersen Medal was awarded to Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina (1902-1996).

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List of writers laureates from 1956 to 2004:

1956 Eleanor Farjeon, UK
1958 Astrid Lindgren, Sweden
1960 Erich Kastner, Germany
1962 Meindert DeJong, USA
1964 Rene Guillot, France
1966 Tove Jansson, Finland
1968 James Kruss, Germany
Jose Maria Sanchez-Silva (Spain)

1970 Gianni Rodari (Italy)
1972 Scott O'Dell, USA
1974 Maria Gripe, Sweden
1976 Cecil Bodker, Denmark
1978 Paula Fox (USA)
1980 Bohumil Riha, Czechoslovakia
1982 Lygia Bojunga Nunes (Brazil)
1984 Christine Nostlinger, Austria
1986 Patricia Wrightson (Australia)
1988 Annie M. G. Schmidt, Netherlands
1990 Tormod Haugen, Norway
1992 Virginia Hamilton (USA)
1994 Michio Mado (Japan)
1996 Uri Orlev (Israel)
1998 Katherine Paterson, USA
2000 Ana Maria Machado (Brazil)
2002 Aidan Chambers (UK)
2004 Martin Waddell (Ireland)
2006 MARGARET MAHY
2008 Jurg Schubiger (Switzerland)

ELEANOR FARJON
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“Seven maids with seven brooms, even if they had worked for fifty years, would never have been able to sweep away from my memory the dust of memories of disappeared castles, flowers, kings, curls of beautiful ladies, the sighs of poets and the laughter of boys and girls.” These words belong to the famous English writer Elinor Farjeon (1881-1965). The writer found precious fairy dust in the books she read as a child. Elinor's father Benjamin Farjeon was a writer. The house where the girl grew up was full of books: “Books covered the walls of the dining room, overflowed into the mother’s living room and into the bedrooms upstairs. It seemed to us that living without clothes would be more natural than without books. Not reading was as strange as not eating.” Further

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Dubravia:M. Soviet-Hungarian-Austrian joint Enterprise Podium, 1993
• Little house(Poems)., M. House 1993, M: Drofa-Media, 2008. Buy
• Seventh Princess:(Fairy tales, stories, parables), Ekaterinburg Middle-Ural. book publishing house 1993
• The Seventh Princess, and other fairy tales, stories, parables: M. Ob-nie Vsesoyuz. youth book center, 1991
• I want the moon; M. Children's literature, 1973
• I want the moon and other stories ; M: Eksmo, 2003.
• Fairy tales, M. Small scientific-production. Angstrem enterprise; 1993
• Little book room(Stories and Fairy Tales), Tallinn Eesti Raamat 1987

The works of Swedish children's writer Astrid Lindgren have been translated into more than 60 languages, and more than one generation of children has grown up reading her books. About 40 films and cartoons have been shot about the adventures of Lindgren's heroes. During her lifetime, her compatriots erected a monument to the writer.

Astrid Eriksson was born November 14, 1907 on a farm near the city of Vimmerby in a farming family. The girl studied well at school, and her literature teacher liked her works so much that he predicted for her the glory of Selma Lagerlöf, the famous Swedish novelist.

At the age of 17, Astrid took up journalism and worked for some time at a local newspaper. Then she moved to Stockholm, trained as a stenographer and worked as a secretary in various companies in the capital. In 1931 Astrid Eriksson married and became Astrid Lindgren.

Astrid Lindgren jokingly recalled that one of the reasons that prompted her to write was the cold Stockholm winters and the illness of her little daughter Karin, who always asked her mother to tell her about something. It was then that mother and daughter came up with a mischievous girl with red pigtails - Pippi.

From 1946 to 1970 Lindgren worked at the Stockholm publishing house Raben & Sjögren. The writer's fame came to her with the publication of books for children "Pippi - Longstocking" (1945-52) and "Mio, my Mio!" (1954). Then there were stories about the Kid and Carlson (1955-1968), Rasmus the tramp (1956), a trilogy about Emil from Lenneberga (1963-1970), the books “The Lionheart Brothers” (1979), “Ronya, the Robber’s Daughter” (1981) etc. Soviet readers discovered Astrid Lindgren back in the 1950s, and her first book translated into Russian was the story “The Kid and Carlson Who Lives on the Roof.”

Lindgren's characters are distinguished by spontaneity, inquisitiveness and ingenuity, and mischief is combined with kindness, seriousness and touching. The fabulous and fantastic coexist with real pictures of life in an ordinary Swedish town.

Despite the apparent simplicity of the plots, Lindgren's books are written with a subtle understanding of the characteristics of child psychology. And if you re-read her stories through the eyes of an adult reader, it becomes clear that we are talking about the complex process of a child’s formation in the incomprehensible and not always kind world of adults. Behind the outward comicality and carefree nature of the characters, there is often a hidden theme of the loneliness and homelessness of the little man.

In 1958 Lindgren was awarded the International Hans Christian Andersen Gold Medal for the humanistic nature of her work.

Astrid Lindgren has passed away January 28, 2002 at the age of 95 years. She is buried in her native land, in Vimmerby. This town became the place where the winners of the annual international prize in memory of Astrid Lindgren “For works for children and youth” were announced, the decision to establish which was made by the Swedish government shortly after the death of the writer.

In 1996, a monument to Lindgren was unveiled in Stockholm.

• MORE ABOUT ASTRID LINDGREN
• ASTRID LINDGREN ON WIKEPEDIA
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Cherstin the elder and Cherstin the younger
Lionheart Brothers
Little Nils Carlson
The Kid and Carlson, who lives on the roof
Mio, my Mio!
Mirabel
We are on the island of Saltkroka.
There are no robbers in the forest
Pippi Longstocking.
The Adventures of Emil from Lenneberga
The princess who didn't want to play with dolls
Kalle Blomkvist and Rasmus
Rasmus, Pontus and Silly
Ronia - daughter of a robber
Sunny meadow
Peter and Petra
Knock-knock
In the land between Light and Darkness
Happy Cuckoo
Is my linden tree ringing, is my nightingale singing...

Book covers. On some covers there are links where you can find out the publication data

ERICH KESTNER

German poet, novelist and playwright Erich Köstner (1899-1974) wrote for adults and children. His books contain a fusion of adult and children's problems, among which the problems of the family, a growing person, and the children's environment predominate.
In his youth, he dreamed of being a teacher and began studying at a teacher’s seminary. He did not become a teacher, but throughout his life he remained faithful to his youthful convictions and remained an educator. Kästner had a sacred attitude towards real teachers; it is no coincidence that in his book “When I was Little” he says: “Genuine, called, born teachers are almost as rare as heroes and saints.” Further

• KESTNER V Wikipedia

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "When I was little": Tale. - M.: Det.lit., 1976.-174 p.
• "When I was little; Emil and the detectives": Stories. - M.: Det.lit., 1990-350 pp. - (Bibliography series).
• "Flying Class": Stories. - L.: Lenizdat, 1988.-607m. (The collection includes "Matchbox Boy", " Emil and the detectives" "Button and Anton", "Double Lottchen", "Flying Class", "When I was little").
• "Matchbox Boy": Tale. - Minsk: Belarusian Encyclopedia, 1993.-253 pp.; M: Children's Literature, 1966
• "Emil and the detectives; Emil and the three twins": Two stories. - M.: Det.lit., 1971.-224 p.
• "The Boy and the Matchbox Girl" Moscow. `RIF ``Antiqua``. 2001, 240 p.
• "Button and Anton"(two stories: “The Button and Anton”, “The Tricks of the Twins”) , M: AST, 2001. series "Girls' Favorite Books"
• "Button and Anton." Odessa: Two elephants, 1996; M: AST, 2001.
• "May 35"; Odessa: Two elephants, 1996.
• "Matchbox Baby"": M: AST
• "Tales". Ill. H. Lemke M. Pravda 1985 480 pp.
• "For adults" M: Progress, 1995.
• "For children", (Here are collected prose and poems that have not previously been translated into Russian: “The Pig at the Barber”, “Arthur with a Long Arm”, “May 35”, “The Enraged Telephone”, “Conference of Animals”, etc.) M: Progress, 1995

KESTNER ON THE NETWORK:

• Emil and the detectives. Emil and three twins

I can frankly admit to you: I composed the story about Emil and the detectives completely by accident. The point is that I was going to write completely
another book. A book in which tigers would clang their fangs in fear and coconuts would fall from date palms. And of course, there would be a black and white checkered cannibal girl, and she would swim across the Great, or Pacific Ocean to get a free toothbrush from Dringwater and Company when you get to San Francisco. And this girl’s name would be Petrosilla, but this, of course, is not a surname, but a first name.
In a word, I wanted to write a real adventure novel, because one bearded gentleman told me that you guys love to read books like this more than anything else in the world.

• Three in the snow (for adults)

- Don't yell! - said the housekeeper Frau Kunkel. - You are not performing on stage, and you are setting the table.
Isolde, the new maid, smiled thinly. Frau Kunkel's taffeta dress rustled. She walked around the front. She straightened the plate and moved the spoon slightly.
“Yesterday there was beef with noodles,” Isolde remarked melancholy. --Today it's sausages and white beans. The millionaire could have eaten something more elegant.
“Mr. Privy Councilor eats what he likes,” said Frau Kunkel after mature reflection.
Isolde laid out the napkins, narrowed her eyes, looked at the composition and headed towards the exit.
- Just a minute! - Frau Kunkel stopped her. - My late father, may he rest in heaven, used to say; “If you buy at least forty pigs in the morning, you still won’t eat more than one chop at lunch.” Remember this for the future! I don't think you'll stay with us long.
“When two people think the same thing, you can make a wish,” Isolde said dreamily.
- I'm not your person! - exclaimed the housekeeper. The taffeta dress rustled. The door slammed
Frau Kunkel shuddered. “And what did Isolde wish for?” she thought, left alone. “I can’t imagine.”

• Button and Anton How can a daughter of rich parents be friends with a boy from a poor family? To be friends as equals, respecting, supporting and helping each other in all the difficulties of life. This childhood book of grandparents is not outdated for their grandchildren.

• The matchbox boy Little Maxik, who lost his parents, becomes the student of a kind magician. Together they will experience many adventures.

• May 35 It's good to have an uncle with whom you can spend a fun day and even go on an incredible trip - simply because an essay is assigned about the exotic South Seas.

MEINDERT DEYONG

Meindert Deyong (1909-1991) was born in the Netherlands. When he was eight years old, his parents immigrated to the United States and settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Deyong attended private Calvinist schools. I started writing while in college. He worked as a mason, was a church watchman, a gravedigger, and taught at a small college in Iowa.

He soon got tired of teaching and started raising poultry. A children's librarian suggested Deyong write about life on a farm, and in 1938, the story "The Big Goose and Little White Duck" appeared. the Little White Duck). Further

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Wheel on the roof. M: Children's literature, 1980.

RENE GUILLOT

René Guillot (1900-1969) was born in Curcuri, "among the forests and marshes of Seigne, where the rivers meet." He graduated from the University of Bordeaux and received a degree in mathematics. In 1923 he went to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, where he taught mathematics until the outbreak of World War II, during which he joined the American army in Europe. One of his students was Leopold Senghor, who later became the first president of Senegal. After the war, Guyot returned to Senegal, lived there until 1950, then was appointed professor at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. Further

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Fairy tales for mustard plasters. Fairy tales of French writers. (R. Guillot “Once upon a time”) St. Petersburg. Printing yard 1993
• White mane. Tale. M. Children's literature 1983

TOVE JANSSON

— How did you become a writer? — this question most often comes up in letters from little readers to their favorite authors. The famous Finnish storyteller Tove Jansson, despite her worldwide fame - the writer's works have been translated into dozens of languages, she is the winner of numerous awards, including the International H.H. Andersen Prize - remains one of the most mysterious figures in modern literature. We do not set out to solve its riddle, but we will only try to touch it and once again visit the wonderful world of the Moomins together.

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The Name Prize is the highest international award in modern literature, which is awarded to the best children's writers ( Hans Christian Andersen Author Award) and illustrators ( Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration). For “children’s” authors, this prize is the most prestigious of the international awards; it is often called the “Small Nobel Prize.”

The prize was organized in 1956 by the International Council for Children's and Youth Literature of UNESCO ( International Board on Books for Young People- IBBY) on the initiative of Ella Lepman () - a cultural figure in the field of world children's literature.

Andersen represents three awards: a gold medal with a profile of the great storyteller ( Hans Christian Andersen Awards); An honorary diploma for the best children's and youth books recently published in the countries; inclusion of the laureate in the Andersen Honor List.

The Prize is patronized by UNESCO, Her Highness Queen Margaret II of Denmark; sponsored by Nissan Motor Co.

Candidates for the prize are nominated by national sections of the International Children's Book Council. The prize is awarded only to living writers and artists, and is presented on the second of April - the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen at the next IBBY congress. The prize jury consists of children's literature experts from all over the world, who, by secret ballot, determine the most suitable candidates for the main prize. The winners receive a Gold Medal; the prize has no monetary equivalent.

Every two years, since 1956, the prize has been awarded to a writer for a significant contribution to literature for children, and since 1966 - to an illustrator.

Over the entire history of the prize (56 years), 30 writers and 24 children’s book illustrators have become its laureates. The geography of the award reached 24 countries.

Unlike the Medal, the same writer or artist can receive an Honorary Diploma several times - for different works. The Andersen Diploma also recognizes the best translations. In 1956, 15 authors from 12 countries received Andersen diplomas. 2 writers, artists and translators from 65 countries.

The third award is the Andersen Honor List, which includes the names of literary and artistic figures who, over a certain period, have best created works for children or designed a children's book.

The first winner of the “Children's Nobel Prize” in 1956 was the English storyteller Eleanor Farjeon, known to us for her translations of the books “I Want the Moon” and “The Seventh Princess.” In 1958, the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren received the Gold Medal. Other laureates also include many world-famous stars - German writers Erich Köstner and James Crews, Italian Gianni Rodari, Tove Jansson from Finland, Bogumil Rzygi from Czechoslovakia, Austrian writer Christine Nöstlinger...

Unfortunately, the work of the twelve Andersen medal winners is completely unknown to the domestic reader - their books have not been translated into Russian and Ukrainian. So far unlucky have been the Spaniard Jose Maria Sanchez-Silva, the Americans Paula Fox and Virginia Hamilton, the Japanese Michio Mado, the Brazilian writers Lizhia Bojunga and Ana Maria Machado, the Argentine Maria Teresa Andruetto, the Australian children's writer Patricia Wrightson, the New Zealand author Margaret Mahy, the Swiss Jurg Schubiger, British author Aidan Chambers and Irishman Martin Waddell.

Unfortunately, our compatriots are not on the list of “Andersenians”. Only illustrator Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina () received the Gold Medal in 1976. But there are holders of an Honorary Diploma for individual books for children, for their illustrations and for the best translations into languages ​​of the world. And among the diploma recipients are writers Radiy Pogodin, Yuri Koval, Valentin Berestov, Agniya Barto, Sergei Mikhalkov; artists Lev Tokmakov, Boris Diodorov, Viktor Chizhikov, Mai Miturich; translators Yakov Akim, Yuri Kushak, Irina Tokmakova, Boris Zakhoder, Lyudmila Braude. Over the years, Honorary Diplomas were awarded to the writers Anatoly Aleksin for the story “Characters and Performers”, Valery Medvedev for the poem “Barankin’s Fantasies”, Yuri Koval for the book of stories and short stories “The Lightest Boat in the World”, Eno Raud for the first part of the tetralogy of stories -fairy tales “Muff, Low Boot and Moss Beard” and others.

Over the past years, about twenty names and titles of works by children's writers and artists from the CIS countries have been included in the Andersen Honor List, including: S. Alekseev, Ch. Aitmatov, N. Dumbadze, G. Pavlishin and others.

Among the numerous laureates awarded with Honorary Diplomas and included in the “Andersen Honorary List” are Ukrainian authors. The first domestic laureate was Bogdan Chaly for the fantastic adventures of his magical Periwinkle from the fairy tale poem “Periwinkle and Spring” in 1973. The second Ukrainian writer who was included in the “Andersen Honor List” in 1979 was Vsevolod Nestaiko and his adventure novel “Toreadors from Vasyukovka.”

Appendix 1

Writers - laureates of the International Prize
name

Country	Writer	Portrait	Year of assignment
United Kingdom	Eleanor Farjeon
Aidan Chambers
David Almond
	Astrid Lindgren (Swedish: Astrid Lindgren)
Maria Gripe (Swedish: Maria Gripe)
Germany	Erich Kästner (German: Erich Kästner)
James Crews (German: James Krüss)
	Meindert DeJong
Scott O'Dell
Paula Fox
Virginia Hamilton
Katherine Paterson
	René Guillot
Finland	Tove Jansson (Finnish: Tove Jansson)
	Jose Maria Sanchez Silva
	Gianni Rodari (Italian: Gianni Rodari)
	Cecil Bødker (Danish: Cecil Bødker)
Czechoslovakia	Bohumil Riha (Czech: Bohumil Říha)
Brazil	Lygia Bojunga (port. Lygia Bojunga)
(port. Ana Maria Machado)
	Christine Nöstlinger (German: Christine Nöstlinger)
Australia	Patricia Wrightson
Netherlands	Annie Schmidt (Dutch. Annie Schmidt)
Norway	Tormod Haugen (Norwegian: Tormod Haugen)
	Michio Mado (Japanese: まど・みちお)
	Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב‎)
Ireland	Martin Waddell
New Zealand	Margaret Mahy
Switzerland	Jürg Schubiger (German: Jürg Schubiger)
Argentina	(Spanish: Maria Teresa Andruetto)

1956 Eleanor Farjeon (UK)

1958 Astrid Lindgren (Swedish Astrid Lindgren, Sweden)

1960 Erich Kästner (German: Erich Kästner, Germany)

1962 Meindert DeJong (eng. Meindert DeJong, USA)

1964 René Guillot (French)

1966 Tove Jansson (Finnish: Tove Jansson, Finland)

1968 James Krüss (German: James Krüss, Germany), Jose Maria Sanchez-Silva (Spain)

1970 Gianni Rodari (Italian: Gianni Rodari, Italy)

1972 Scott O'Dell (eng. Scott O'Dell, USA)

1974 Maria Gripe (Swedish Maria Gripe, Sweden)

1976 Cecil Bødker (Denmark)

1978 Paula Fox (USA)

1980 Bohumil Říha (Czech. Bohumil Říha, Czechoslovakia)

1982 Lygia Bojunga (port. Lygia Bojunga, Brazil)

1984 Christine Nöstlinger (German: Christine Nöstlinger, Austria)

1986 Patricia Wrightson (English: Patricia Wrightson, Australia)

1988 Annie Schmidt (Dutch Annie Schmidt, Netherlands)

1990 Tormod Haugen (Norwegian Tormod Haugen, Norway)

1992 Virginia Hamilton (USA)

1994 Michio Mado (Japanese: まど・みちお, Japan)

1996 Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב‎, Israel)

1998 Katherine Paterson (USA)

2000 (Spanish: Ana Maria Machado, Brazil)

2002 Aidan Chambers, UK

2006 Margaret Mahy (New Zealand)

2008 Jürg Schubiger (German: Jürg Schubiger, Switzerland)

2010 David Almond, UK

2012 (Spanish: Maria Teresa Andruetto, Argentina)

Appendix 2

Award-winning illustrators
name

Country	Artist	Year of assignment
Switzerland	Alois Carighiet
Jörg Müller
Czechoslovakia	Jiri Trnka
Dusan Kallay
Czech Republic	Kveta Patsovskaya
Peter Sis
	Maurice Sendak
	Ib Spang Olsen
	Farshid Mesghali
	Tatyana Mavrina
	Suekichi Akaba
Mitsumasa Anno
	Zbigniew Rychlicki (Polish: Zbigniew Rychlicki)
Australia	Robert Ingpen
	Lisbeth Zwerger
Germany	Klaus Ensikat
Wolf Erlbruch
Jutta Bauer (German: Jutta Bauer)
	Tomi Ungerer (French: Tomi Ungerer)
United Kingdom	Anthony Brown
Quentin Blake
Netherlands	Max Velthuijs (Dutch: Max Velthuijs)
	Roberto Innocenti

1966 Alois Carighiet (Switzerland)

1968 Jiri Trnka (Czechoslovakia)

1970 Maurice Sendak (USA)

1972 Ib Spang Olsen (Denmark)

1974 Farshid Mesghali (Iran)

1976 Tatyana Mavrina (USSR)

1978 Svend (Denmark)

1980 Suekichi Akaba (Japan)

1982 Zbigniew Rychlicki (Polish: Zbigniew Rychlicki, Poland)

1984 Mitsumasa Anno (Japan)

1986 Robert Ingpen (Australia)

1988 Dusan Kallay (Czechoslovakia)

1990 Lisbeth Zwerger (Austria)

1992 Kveta Patovska (Czech Republic)

1994 Jörg Müller (Switzerland)

1996 Klaus Ensikat (Germany)

1998 Tomi Ungerer (French: Tomi Ungerer, France)

2000 Anthony Brown (Great Britain)

2002 Quentin Blake (UK)

2004 Max Velthuijs (Netherlands)

2006 Wolf Erlbruch (Germany)

2008 Roberto Innocenti (Italy)

2010 Jutta Bauer (German: Jutta Bauer, Germany)

2012 Peter Sis (Czech Republic)

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Date of birth

Writer

Performed

Year the award was named

(Spanish) Maria Teresa Andruetto; r. 1954), Argentine writer

Eleanor Farjeon(English) Eleanor Farjeon; 1881-06/05/1965), popular English children's writer

Bohumil Rzhiga(Czech) Bohumil Říha;), Czech writer, public figure

Erich Kästner(German) Erich Kastner; 1899-29.07.1974), German author, screenwriter, novelist, satirist, cabaretist

Uri Orlev(Hebrew: אורי אורלב‎, b. 1931), Israeli prose writer, author of books for children and youth, translator of Polish-Jewish origin

Meindert De Jong(or Deyong; eng. Meindert DeJong; 1906-16.07.1991), American writer

Virginia Hamilton(or Hamilton, English) Virginia Hamilton; 1936-19.02.2002), American writer

Margaret Mahy (Mahi or May, English Margaret Mahy; 1936-23.07.2012), New Zealand writer, author of novels for children and youth

Rene Guillot(fr. René Guillot; 1900-26.03.1969), French writer

Cecile Boedker(German) Cecil Bødker; r. 1927), Danish writer

Martin Waddell(or Waddell, English. Martin Waddell; r. 1941), Irish writer

Paula Fox(English) Paula Fox; r. 1923), American writer

90 years old

Tormod Haugen(Norwegian) Tormod Haugen; 1945-18.10.2008), Norwegian writer and translator

David Almond(English) David Almond; r. 1951), English writer

Annie(Dutch Annie Maria Geertruida Schmidt, in another transcription by Smidt; 1911-21.05.1995), Dutch writer

Scott O'Dell(eng. Scott O'Dell; 1898-10/15/1989), famous American writer

115 years

James Crews(German) James Kruss; 1926-2.08.1997), German children's writer and poet

Patricia Wrightson(English) Patricia Wrightson, born Patricia Furlonger; 1921-15.03.2010), Australian children's writer

Maria Gripe(Swede. Maria Gripe; born Maria Stina Walter / Maja Stina Walter; 1923-5.04.2007), famous Swedish writer

Lygia (Lizia) Bojunga Nunez(Spanish) Lygia Bojunga Nunes; r. 1932), Brazilian writer

Christine Nöstlinger(German) Christine Nostlinger; r. 1936), Austrian children's writer

Katherine Walmendorf Paterson(English) Katherine Paterson; r. 1932), contemporary American children's writer

Jose Maria Sanchez-Silva and Garcia-Morales(Spanish) José María Sánchez-Silva y García-Morales;), Spanish writer and screenwriter

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren(Swede. Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Eriksson, Swedish. Ericsson; 1907-28.01.2002), Swedish writer, author of a number of world-famous books for children

Aidan Chambers (or Aiden Chambers, English. Aidan Chambers; r. 1934), English writer

The Hans Christian Andersen Author Award is a literary prize that recognizes the best children's writers and illustrators. It was established in 1956 by the International Council for Children's and Youth Literature of UNESCO, awarded once every two years, awarded on April 2. This date - birthday - was declared by UNESCO in 1967 as International Children's Book Day.

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The H. C. Andersen Prize is considered one of the most prestigious international awards in the field of children's literature; it is often called the “Small Nobel Prize.”

The award is given only to living writers and artists.

The idea to establish the prize belongs to Ella Lepman (1891-1970), a cultural figure in the field of world children's literature. E. Lepman’s famous phrase is: “Give our children books, and you will give them wings.”

Candidates for the award are nominated by national sections of the International Children's Book Council IBBY. The winners - writer and artist - are awarded gold medals with a profile of Hans Christian Andersen. In addition, IBBY awards diplomas of honor to the best children's and youth books recently published in countries that are members of the International Council.

The Russian Children's Book Council has been a member of the international competition Council since 1968. In 1976, the Andersen Prize was awarded to the Russian illustrator and painter. Many children's writers and illustrators from Russia were also awarded an Honorary Diploma.

In 1974, the International Jury especially noted creativity, and in 1976 -. In different years, honorary diplomas were awarded to the writers Shaukat Galiev for the Tatar children's book translated into Russian “A Hare on Exercise” (“Physical Exercise Yasy Kuyan”), Anatoly Aleksin for the story “Characters and Performers”, Valery Medvedev for the poem “Barankin’s Fantasies” , for the book of stories and short stories “The Lightest Boat in the World”, Eno Raud for the first part of the tetralogy of fairy tales “Muff, Polbotinka and Moss Beard” and others; illustrators, Evgeny Rachev and others; translators, Lyudmila Braude and others. In 2008 and 2010, the artist was nominated for the award.

List of award-winning writers

1956 (Eleanor Farjeon, UK)
1958 (Astrid Lindgren, Sweden)
1960 Erich Kästner (Germany)
1962 Meindert DeJong (USA)
1964 René Guillot (France)
1966 Tove Jansson (Finland)
1968 (James Krüss, Germany), Jose Maria Sanchez-Silva (Spain)
1970 (Gianni Rodari, Italy)
1972 Scott O'Dell (USA)
1974 Maria Gripe (Sweden)
1976 Cecil Bødker (Denmark)
1978 Paula Fox (USA)
1980 Bohumil Říha, Czechoslovakia
1982 Lygia Bojunga (Brazil)
1984 Christine Nöstlinger (Austria)
1986 Patricia Wrightson (Australia)
1988 (Annie Schmidt, Netherlands)
1990 (Tormod Haugen, Norway)
1992 Virginia Hamilton (USA)
1994 Michio Mado (まど・みちお, Japan)
1996 Uri Orlev (אורי אורלב‎, Israel)
1998 Katherine Paterson (USA)
2000 Ana Maria Machado (Brazil)
2002 Aidan Chambers (UK)
2004 (Martin Waddell, Ireland)
2006 Margaret Mahy (New Zealand)
2008 Jürg Schubiger (Switzerland)
2010 David Almond (Great Britain)
2012 Maria Teresa Andruetto (Argentina)

List of award-winning illustrators

1966 Alois Carigiet (Switzerland)
1968 (Jiří Trnka, Czechoslovakia)
1970 (Maurice Sendak, USA)
1972 Ib Spang Olsen (Denmark)
1974 Farshid Mesghali (Iran)