The 2022 Hans Christian Andersen International Awards will be announced on March 21. On February 21, local time, the Organizing Committee of the International Andersen Award announced on its official website the shortlist of six people for the 2022 International Hans Christian Andersen Prize Writer Award and The Illustrator Award, of which Evana Chimilleska and other candidates have been shortlisted for many times.
The International Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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On February 21, 2022 local time, the International Hans Christian Andersen Awards announced the shortlist of the 2022 International Hans Christian Andersen Awards. Among them, Marie-Aude Murail from France, María Cristina Ramos from Argentina, Fatima Sharafeddine from Lebanon, Peter Svetina from Slovenia, and Annika from Sweden Thor) and Margaret Wild from Australia shortlisted for the Writers' Award for a short list of six.
Works by Fatima Sharafiddin in Arabic.
Polish picture book writer Iwona Chmielewska, Italian illustrator and writer Beatrice Alemagna, Korean picture book writer and illustrator Suzy Lee, Japanese illustrator Ryoji Arai, Canadian illustrator Sydney Smith) and Argentine illustrator Gusti shortlisted for the Illustrator Award for a short list of six.
The final winners of the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen International Awards will be announced at a press conference of the International Children's Book Alliance (IBBY) on March 21, during the International Children's Book Fair in Bologna, Italy, and the gold medals and certificates will be awarded separately during the 38th IBBY Conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, from September 5 to 8.
In 1953, The International Board onBooks for Young People (IBBY) created the International Hans Christian Andersen Award in Zurich, Switzerland, sponsored by Queen Margaret II of Denmark and named after the master fairy tale Hans Christian Andersen, which is selected every two years. As one of the highest honors in the world for international children's literature awards, the International Hans Christian Andersen Awards are divided into a writer's award and an illustrator award.
Candidates nominated for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award need to excel in aesthetics, text quality, and novelty of the work, must express the child's point of view and help to expand their curiosity, and need to be of continual relevance to children and youth. It is worth noting that the International Hans Christian Andersen Awards are lifetime achievement awards, so creators can only receive them once in their lifetime.
In the shortlist of the Authors' Awards announced this time, Maria Cristina Ramos is an Argentine writer and educator known for her children's books. Fatima Shalafiddin is a Lebanese writer and translator of children's and adolescent literature and has previously been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award several times. Slovenian literary scholar, writer and translator Peter Svetina was born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, and is the only author to date to win the Ve ernica Award for best children's book in Slovenia three times.
Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, Annika Thor is a well-known Swedish writer and playwright who has published more than 20 works, including children's literature. In 1997, her novel Truth or Consequences won the Swedish Auguste Literary Prize, and her own film of the same name won Sweden's well-respected Golden Beetle Award.
Greek Mythology, by [Sweden] Annika Thor, [Sweden] Jacob Viglius et al., translated by Wang Mengda, Nanjing University Press, January 2021.
Margaret Wilder is a leading Australian children's literature writer who was a news magazine journalist before becoming a full-time children's book writer and had 16 years of writing and publishing children's books.
"Shhh, sleep well!" By Margaret Wilder, Illustrated by Brigitte Marzo, translated by Du Fanghua, Future Press, June 2020.
In the short list of the Illustrator Award, Evana Chimilleska has been shortlisted for the International Hans Christian Andersen Awards twice in 2018 and 2020, and has twice won the Best Children's Book Award at the International Children's Book Fair in Bologna. Evana wanted to "create images that could not have been defined before and could be interpreted in multiple dimensions." Everyone can read their own things out of it. ”
The Eye, [Poland] by Ivana Chimileska, translated by Mingshu, Relay Press, August 2020.
Known for her novel fabric collages, diverse coloring techniques, imaginative, creative and philosophical content, her work is arguably the most innovative artist in the field of children's picture books. Currently, Evana's work "Trouble! "Imagine ABC", "Pencil That Thinks", "The Way to School", "Ordinary Books", "Trouble Again!" "Ten Toes to Travel" and so on have been introduced and published by the Magic Elephant Children's Bookstore.
Evana Chimilleska's Lullaby for Grandma is about to be published by magic elephants.
Beatrice Almania is a well-known Italian illustrator and author, she has published more than thirty children's books, such as "A Lion in Paris", "A Great Day with Nothing", "Dear Child", "Clara's Treasure", "You Are My Love", "Big Little Things" and so on. Beatrice's work can lead adults and children to explore the inner world of little people together, as she once said, "Now I am making books." For children, for adults, for anyone. ”
Illustration of A Lion in Paris. (Published by Magic Elephant Introduction)
Beatrice Almania's picture books "Dear Children", "Don't Be Afraid of Those Little Dead, Dear Children" and "Dear Glass Children" have been introduced and published by fantasy children's books.
Susie Lee is a Picture Book writer and illustrator from South Korea, and her "The Border Trilogy"—Mirror, Waves, and Shadow—uses books as a means to create a narrative that crosses the boundaries of reality and fantasy, winning the Illustrators Guild of America Gold Medal for Original Art and the New York Times Children's Book of the Year. In Susie's view, "a successful picture book must leave the reader with appropriate imagination space."
Created by Jesse Kraussmaer and illustrated by Susie Lee, Open This Little Book will be introduced and published by The Whimsical Nation.
Ryoji Arai is a proud master of art active on the international stage and is also recognized as one of the representatives of Japanese picture book writers. After graduating from the Faculty of Arts, Nihon University, he worked as an illustrator, and in 1990 he published his debut picture book "MELODY", and has published more than 100 picture books, including "The Lying Moon", "Enigmatic Journey", "Picture Book of the Forest", "Mr. Happiness", "Sun Organ", etc., of which "Mr. Happiness" has been introduced and published by the Magic Elephant.
"Today I can go anywhere" "Apple Tree in Tyrol" "Cosmic Egg" Three picture books created by Ryoji Arai will be introduced and published by CITIC Publishing Group.
Sidney Smith is good at telling poetic stories to readers through pictorial narratives, such as "Roadside Flowers", "Waiting for Dad to Come Home", "White Cat and Monk" and so on. The 2021 Kate Greenaway Prize-winning picture book "Big City, Little You" is from Sidney's pen.
Illustration of "Big City, Little You". (Introduced and published by Fantasy Nation)
Gusti is one of the most important writers and illustrators in Latin America, and after the publication of Marco and Papa, he won the Spanish National Book Award and the Bologna Children's Book Special Theme Book Gold Medal. The book focuses on a special group of children with "Down syndrome."
Marco and Daddy, [Spanish] Gusti, translated by Chen Lan, China Children's publishing house, June 2018.