Laurie Halse Anderson and HRH Crown Princess Victoria holding the ALMA diploma

Photo: Susanne Kronholm

The laureates

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is awarded to authors, illustrators and narrators, but also to people or organizations that work to promote reading. Here you can find out more about all of our laureates!

Laureates

Indigenous Literacy Foundation

Organisation, Australia

Laurie Halse Anderson

Eva Lindström

Picture book artist, Sweden

Jean-Claude Mourlevat

Baek Heena

Picture book artist, Republic of Korea

Bart Moeyaert

Author, Belgium

Jacqueline Woodson

Author, United States

Wolf Erlbruch

Illustrator, Germany

Meg Rosoff

Author, United States/UK

PRAESA

Organisation, South Africa

Barbro Lindgren

Isol

Illustrator, Argentina

Guus Kuijer

Author, Netherlands

Shaun Tan

Illustrator, Australia

Kitty Crowther

Picture book artist, Belgium

Tamer Institute for Community Education

Organisation, Palestine

Sonya Hartnett

Author, Australia

Banco del Libro

Organisation, Venezuela

Author Katherine Paterson

Katherine Paterson

Author, United States

Ryôji Arai

Picture book artist, Japan

Philip Pullman

Author, United Kingdom

Lygia Bojunga

Christine Nöstlinger

Author, Austria

Maurice Sendak

Author and illustrator, United States

Children create miracles when they read.
- Astrid Lindgren from the acceptance speech at the reception of the H C Andersen Award in 1958

Diploma Jean-Claude Mourlevat

The diplomas

Apart from the prize sum of 5 million Swedish kronor, the laureate of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award also receives a diploma, illustrated by a Swedish illustrator and, in most cases, hand-lettered by a calligrapher.

See all the diplomas