Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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.

Laureates

2004 - Lygia Bojunga (Brazil)

2003 - Maurice Sendak (United States), Christine Nöstlinger (Austria)