The 2022 announcement

Will it be a storymaker or a reading promoter? The new laurate will be announced on March 22. Join us digitally, on site in Stockholm or in Bologna.

The award

Fast facts

The laureates

Get to know the laureates

Inspire young readers

Discover our reading guides

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Meet the illustrator

"I knew right away that portraying such a well-known person, like Astrid Lindgren, would be challenging." Amanda Åkerman created the portrait of Astrid Lindgren that is depicted on our logo. Here, the illustrator reveals what it was like to portray one of Sweden’s most beloved authors.

Read the full interview

A grey-haired man leaning standing amon book-shelfes in a library

Mourlevat to Sweden

The 2021 laureate Jean-Claude Mourlevat visited Sweden and had a full slate of events lined up in Gothenburg, Vimmerby and Stockholm. The Swedish audience met him in onstage conversations, shools and book shops.

See the program

Flowing fabrics and glimmers of gold when fiction becomes circus

In early June, upper secondary school students within circus and design performed at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern with a performance inspired by Shaun Tan's graphic novel "The Arrival".

New on the jury

We are pleased to welcome writer and librarian Balsam Karam and professor Katarina Eriksson Barajas to our jury. Their terms will begin on July 1.

Summer reading

Know any small, hungry bookworms? Here are four great summer reads that children and grownups can enjoy together.

Check out our tips!

Sharing the world’s best stories—together

"The pandemic continues to be a damper, not only on our activities but also on the cultural sector around the world. Looking back, however, this spring has still been an eventful one."

Read the column by Director Suzi Ersahin

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination. Children create miracles when they read.

- From Astrid Lindgren's speech at the reception of the H C Andersen Award in April 1958

A prize for the prize!

We are proud to share that our visual identity has won first place in Swedish Resumé Design Award. Earlier this spring, we launched the identity which was undertaken in collaboration with the branding agency Happy F&B.

Meet Baek Heena and Bart Moeyaert

On May 19, two of our laureates took part in Litteralund, a digital conference packed with inspirational talks within the field of children's literature. Our jury member Mårten Sandén also gave an introduction to this year's laureate.

See the program

Young people show a passion for writing

Our writing contest Young Writers for Young Readers elicited more than 250 submissions from across Sweden, all written by young people between the ages of 10 and 18. The contest is organized in cooperation with Tensta Konsthall, aiming to inspire children to spend more time writing and putting their emotions into words.

Meet the winners of Young Writers for Young Readers