Premiere at the book fair
As part of the digital edition of the Gothenburg Book Fair Sep 24-27 in Sweden, we present the premiere of a film about this year's laureate Baek Heena. And don't miss the chance to see the 2018 award-winner Jacqueline Woodson talking about her latest novel Red at the Bone, live from New York.
Baek Heena, the 2020 ALMA laureate
Friday 25 September at 14.30–14.45. Track: Extrainsatt
On March 31, 2020, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award struck like a bolt of lightning in the life of the South Korean picture book artist Baek Heena, as she put it herself; "I was so happy, it was like getting a phone call from God." A new Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award film about this year's laureate will be premiered at this year’s digital Gothenburg Book Fair. The film is directed by Lee Young-Hoon. We meet Baek Heena in the city of Seoul where she lives and makes her books. Get a glimpse into her meticulously constructed picture book worlds, what drives her as an artist and what winning the world's largest children's and youth literature prize has meant for her.
Go to Bokmässan Play
Read more about Baek Heena
A family tale with social passion
Sunday 27 September at 5.15–5.45 pm. Track: Livet
The 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate Jacqueline Woodson’s latest novel Red at the Bone follows the journey of a middle-class family from the American South in the 1920s to today’s New York. 16-year-old Melody’s existence has brought together two black families of different classes. The fact that her mother’s teen pregnancy was a catastrophe has been put behind them. The family’s tales are woven together to a story about class and dignity, education and power, parenthood and the relationship between mother and daughter. Jacqueline Woodson is active in the Black Lives Matter movement and has published some 30 books, from novels to poetry and picture books. Racism is a recurring theme in her authorship. Host: Nina Svanberg, journalist. The seminar iss arranged by Natur & Kultur and will be sent in cooperation with Consulate General of Sweden, New York City.
Go to the Göteborg Book Fair Play
Read more about Jacqueline Woodson
