The World's Largest Children's Literature Award

Award Week

If literature can enrich and transform our lives and those of our children, as I think it can, it begins to do so by pleasing our senses.

Award Lecture

In his Award Lecture, Philip Pullman discussed rythm and language as portals to children's fiction and gave his views on talent versus determination, but mostly he spoke about children's reception of and identification with stories and characters, and how this could or should influence the pedagogics used in schools.

Download Award Lecture

Philip Pullman's Award Lecture in PDF

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature. The award, which amounts to SEK 5 million, is awarded annually to a single recipient or to several. Authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and those active in reading promotion may be rewarded. The award is designed to promote interest in children's and young adult literature, and in children's rights, globally. An expert jury selects the winners from candidates nominated by institutions and organisations worldwide. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is administered by the Swedish Arts Council, and was founded by the Swedish government in 2002.

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