
Award Ceremony
On May 30, Meg Rosoff received the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award during a ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm. In addition to the prize money of five million SEK, Rosoff also received a diploma which was presented by the Minister of Culture and Democracy Alice Bah Kuhnke.
Highlights from the award ceremony
Musical entertainment was provided by Malena Ernman and Bo Kasper’s Orchestra. Hamadi Khemiri read from Rosoff’s novel, What I Was. The ceremony was hosted by Stockholm City Librarian Katti Hoflin.

Leaves no reader unmoved
Meg Rosoff is an American author based in London. She debuted in 2004 with the dystopic young adult novel How I Live Now which became an instant success. Since then she has written several novels centered around unforgettable characters living in thorny borderlands between childhood and adult life.
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