Isol participates in Babel and UR Samtiden

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On Sunday May 26, Isol participates in literature program Babel on Swedish National Television, SVT2. Among the other guests are...

Isol about her works

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This year’s award lecture was carried out as a conversation between Isol and picturebook specialist and jury member Ulla Rhedin.  Lennart Eng, artist, graphic designer and jury member held a welcome...

The award week begins

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Stockholm was quite warm but windy and cloudy when Argentine illustrator Isol met press and media on Sunday afternoon. Tomorrow the award week begins...

May 15 is the final day to nominate candidates for 2014

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The award week is getting closer and at the same time the process for next year’s nominations proceeds. The deadline to nominate candidates...

Isol is looking forward to an intense award week

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This year’s award week begins May 20 and ends with the award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on May 27. Isol´s looking forward to coming back to meet the Swedish readers.

Isol visits Sweden – participates in LitteraLund

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Isol arrived in Sweden last Sunday to participate in the literary festival LitteraLund, April 15-20. — It’s an unexpected pleasure to have the possibility of meeting Isol and planning her program now, one month before the award week, says Helen Sigeland.

Jorge Luján about Isol

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The Argentinian poet Jorge Luján, living in Mexico, has collaborated with Isol for over ten years. Here are Jorge Luján’s own words about Isol and their collaboration:

First phonecall to Isol!

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Listen to the phone call where Jury Chairman Larry Lempert informs Isol that she is the recipient of the 2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

Kerstin Brunnberg comment the 2013 recipient

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Kerstin Brunnberg, Chairperson of the Swedish Arts Council, commented on the 2013 recipient after the announcement: Today the ALMA jury has appointed the Argentine illustrator Isol to...

The Swedish Minister of culture about the recipient

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– She refreshes the litterature for children both in text and pictures and she guards their right to be independent individuals who can call into question. Isol´s books mirrors the children´s thoughts, reflections and relation to the world and it contains a lot of humor and warmth, says Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth.

Creates picturebooks from the eye level of the child

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Isol is an illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist, writer, singer and composer. She was born in 1972 and lives and works in Argentina.Isol was born Marisol Misenta in Buenos Aires in 1972. She began her artistic education at the Escuela Nacional de Belles Artes, “Rogelio Yrurtia”, studying to be an art teacher, followed by a couple of years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires.Isol is the writer and illustrator of about 10 published titles and has illustrated a similar number of...

Watch the announcement and the jury presentation

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Isol is the 2013 recipient of The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Jury chairman Larry Lempert announced this year's recipient with the jury's citation and jury member Ulla Rhedin gives a presentation of Isol and her works.

Information in other languages

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Information about the 2013 recipient, Isol, in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Recipients emphasize children’s right to culture

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“The right to culture is the right to liberation from the restrictions imposed by education,” according to the Dutch author Guus Kuijer, last year’s recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

Announcement of this year’s recipient on March 26

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The recipient of the 2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award will be announced on March 26 at 1:00 pm.

The nominationprocess for 2014 opened today

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The nomination process for 2014 was launched today, and now the effort to find next year’s award recipient begins. 401 bodies from around the world are invited to nominate candidates.

Reading Guides in English launched today

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Today, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) launches reading guides for twelve works by ten previous recipients. The reading guides are written by members of the jury who are experts in children’s and young adult literature.

Helen Sigeland receives honor from the Swedish Academy

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Today, Helen Sigeland, Director of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, was honored by the Swedish Academy for her many years of introducing Swedish culture abroad.

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