Nominees for the 2021 award

Here are the 263 candidates who are in the running for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2021. The ALMA list is one of the most comprehensive lists of the world's foremost living children's book creators and reading promoters.

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The laureates

The prize is awarded to authors, illustrators and narrators, but also to people or organisations that work to promote reading.

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A film about Baek Heena

Step into the meticulously crafted visual universes of the Korean picture book maker Baek Heena. The film takes us to Seoul, where she lives and creates her books.

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ALMA collaborates with Historieberättarna

The film and storytelling project Jag har tips på en bok (“I know a great book”) will engage young readers in interpreting books by ALMA laureates such as Jacqueline Woodson, Shaun Tan, Isol and Lygia Bojunga.

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A family tale with social passion

A popular conversation that rounded off the Göteborg Book Fair on Sep 27 was with the 2018 ALMA laureate Jacqueline Woodson. From her home in Brooklyn she talked about the Black Lives Matter movement and her latest book, Red at the Bone.