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155 candidates from all over the world are nominated to next year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. In total, 61 countries are represented among the nominees. The list of candidates is available here.

Press release 2007-09-28
155 candidates from all over the world are nominated to next year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. In total, 61 countries are represented among the nominees. The list of candidates is available here.

All together 125 candidates have been nominated in the category of author/illustrator/storyteller, and 30 candidates in the category of promoting reading (organisations/projects/persons).

Nominating bodies from around the world were invited in January to take part in the nominating process for the 2008 award. Next year, the prize will be awarded for the sixth time and the interest to participate in the process is increasing. A number of nations are participating in the process for the first time this year: Angola. Bosnia Herzegovina, China, Mexico, Portugal, South Korea and Thailand to name a few.

The jury will now work through the nominations until March next year, when the announcement of the award winner for 2008 will take place.

The 2007-year award winner is the Venezuelan institution Banco del Libro.

Read more about the award and the nomination process on www.alma.se.

CONTACT:

Larry Lempert, Chairman of the award jury
Phone: +46 (0)76 123 12 20
E-mail: larry.lempert@kultur.stockholm.se

Gustaf Brickman
Information Officer/Project Manager, The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Phone: +46 (0)76 540 10 17, +46 (0)8 519 264 00/17
E-Mail: gustaf.brickman@alma.se