In addition, IBBY awards Honorary Diplomas to the best children's and youth books recently published in countries that are members of the International Council.
Below is a list of award-winning writers:
Below is a list of award-winning illustrators:
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An hour after this, Dunyasha came to the princess with the news that Dron had arrived and all the men, by order of the princess, gathered at the barn, wanting to talk with the mistress.
“Yes, I never called them,” said Princess Marya, “I only told Dronushka to give them bread.”
“Only for God’s sake, Princess Mother, order them away and don’t go to them.” It’s all just a lie,” Dunyasha said, “and Yakov Alpatych will come and we’ll go... and if you please...
- What kind of deception? – the princess asked in surprise
- Yes, I know, just listen to me, for God’s sake. Just ask the nanny. They say they do not agree to leave on your orders.
- You're saying something wrong. Yes, I never ordered to leave... - said Princess Marya. - Call Dronushka.
The arriving Dron confirmed Dunyasha’s words: the men came on the orders of the princess.
“Yes, I never called them,” said the princess. “You probably didn’t convey it to them correctly.” I just told you to give them the bread.
The drone sighed without answering.
“If you order, they will leave,” he said.
“No, no, I’ll go to them,” said Princess Marya
Despite the dissuading of Dunyasha and the nanny, Princess Marya went out onto the porch. Dron, Dunyasha, the nanny and Mikhail Ivanovich followed her. “They probably think that I am offering them bread so that they will remain in their places, and I will leave myself, abandoning them to the mercy of the French,” thought Princess Marya. – I will promise them a month in an apartment near Moscow; I’m sure Andre would have done even more in my place,” she thought, approaching the crowd standing in the pasture near the barn in the twilight.
The crowd, crowded, began to stir, and their hats quickly came off. Princess Marya, with her eyes downcast and her feet tangling in her dress, came close to them. So many different old and young eyes were fixed on her and there were so many different faces that Princess Marya did not see a single face and, feeling the need to suddenly talk to everyone, did not know what to do. But again the consciousness that she was the representative of her father and brother gave her strength, and she boldly began her speech.
“I’m very glad that you came,” Princess Marya began, without raising her eyes and feeling how quickly and strongly her heart was beating. “Dronushka told me that you were ruined by the war.” This is our common grief, and I will not spare anything to help you. I’m going myself, because it’s already dangerous here and the enemy is close... because... I give you everything, my friends, and I ask you to take everything, all our bread, so that you don’t have any need. And if they told you that I am giving you bread so that you can stay here, then this is not true. On the contrary, I ask you to leave with all your property to our Moscow region, and there I take it upon myself and promise you that you will not be in need. They will give you houses and bread. - The princess stopped. Only sighs were heard in the crowd.
“I’m not doing this on my own,” the princess continued, “I’m doing this in the name of my late father, who was a good master to you, and for my brother and his son.”
She stopped again. No one interrupted her silence.
- Our grief is common, and we will divide everything in half. “Everything that is mine is yours,” she said, looking around at the faces standing in front of her.
All eyes looked at her with the same expression, the meaning of which she could not understand. Whether it was curiosity, devotion, gratitude, or fear and distrust, the expression on all faces was the same.
“Many are pleased with your mercy, but we don’t have to take the master’s bread,” said a voice from behind.
- Why not? - said the princess.
No one answered, and Princess Marya, looking around the crowd, noticed that now all the eyes she met immediately dropped.
- Why don’t you want to? – she asked again.
Nobody answered.
Princess Marya felt heavy from this silence; she tried to catch someone's gaze.
- Why don’t you talk? - the princess turned to the old man, who, leaning on a stick, stood in front of her. - Tell me if you think anything else is needed. “I’ll do everything,” she said, catching his gaze. But he, as if angry at this, lowered his head completely and said:
- Why agree, we don’t need bread.
- Well, should we give it all up? Do not agree. We don’t agree... We don’t agree. We feel sorry for you, but we do not agree. Go on your own, alone...” was heard in the crowd from different directions. And again the same expression appeared on all the faces of this crowd, and now it was probably no longer an expression of curiosity and gratitude, but an expression of embittered determination.
“You didn’t understand, right,” said Princess Marya with a sad smile. - Why don’t you want to go? I promise to house you and feed you. And here the enemy will ruin you...
But her voice was drowned out by the voices of the crowd.
“We don’t have our consent, let him ruin it!” We don’t take your bread, we don’t have our consent!
Princess Marya again tried to catch someone's gaze from the crowd, but not a single glance was directed at her; the eyes obviously avoided her. She felt strange and awkward.
- See, she taught me cleverly, follow her to the fortress! Destroy your home and go into bondage and go. Why! I'll give you the bread, they say! – voices were heard in the crowd.
Princess Marya, lowering her head, left the circle and went into the house. Having repeated the order to Drona that there should be horses for departure tomorrow, she went to her room and was left alone with her thoughts.
For a long time that night, Princess Marya sat at the open window in her room, listening to the sounds of men talking coming from the village, but she did not think about them. She felt that no matter how much she thought about them, she could not understand them. She kept thinking about one thing - about her grief, which now, after the break caused by worries about the present, had already become past for her. She could now remember, she could cry and she could pray. As the sun set, the wind died down. The night was quiet and fresh. At twelve o'clock the voices began to fade, the rooster crowed, the full moon began to emerge from behind the linden trees, a fresh, white mist of dew rose, and silence reigned over the village and over the house.
One after another, pictures of the close past appeared to her - illness and her father’s last minutes. And with sad joy she now dwelled on these images, driving away from herself with horror only one last image of his death, which - she felt - she was unable to contemplate even in her imagination at this quiet and mysterious hour of the night. And these pictures appeared to her with such clarity and with such detail that they seemed to her now like reality, now the past, now the future.
Then she vividly imagined that moment when he had a stroke and was dragged out of the garden in the Bald Mountains by the arms and he muttered something with an impotent tongue, twitched his gray eyebrows and looked at her restlessly and timidly.
“Even then he wanted to tell me what he told me on the day of his death,” she thought. “He always meant what he told me.” And so she remembered in all its details that night in Bald Mountains on the eve of the blow that happened to him, when Princess Marya, sensing trouble, remained with him against his will. She did not sleep and at night she tiptoed downstairs and, going up to the door to the flower shop where her father spent the night that night, listened to his voice. He said something to Tikhon in an exhausted, tired voice. He obviously wanted to talk. “And why didn’t he call me? Why didn’t he allow me to be here in Tikhon’s place? - Princess Marya thought then and now. “He will never tell anyone now everything that was in his soul.” This moment will never return for him and for me, when he would say everything he wanted to say, and I, and not Tikhon, would listen and understand him. Why didn’t I enter the room then? - she thought. “Maybe he would have told me then what he said on the day of his death.” Even then, in a conversation with Tikhon, he asked about me twice. He wanted to see me, but I stood here, outside the door. He was sad, it was hard to talk with Tikhon, who did not understand him. I remember how he spoke to him about Lisa, as if she were alive - he forgot that she died, and Tikhon reminded him that she was no longer there, and he shouted: “Fool.” It was hard for him. I heard from behind the door how he lay down on the bed, groaning, and shouted loudly: “My God! Why didn’t I get up then?” What would he do to me? What would I have to lose? And maybe then he would have been consoled, he would have said this word to me.” And Princess Marya said out loud the kind word that he said to her on the day of his death. “Darling! - Princess Marya repeated this word and began to sob with tears that relieved her soul. She now saw his face in front of her. And not the face that she had known since she could remember, and which she had always seen from afar; and that face is timid and weak, which on the last day, bending down to his mouth to hear what he said, she examined up close for the first time with all its wrinkles and details.
Organized in 1956 by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Awarded once every two years. The prize is awarded on the second of April - the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen. On the initiative and decision of the International Council, as a sign of deep respect and love for H. H. Andersen, in 1967, April 2 was declared International Children's Book Day. For “children’s” authors, this prize is the most prestigious international award; it is often called the “Small Nobel Prize.” The award is given only to living writers and artists.
The idea to establish the prize belongs to Ella Lepman (1891-1970), a cultural figure in the field of world children's literature. E. Lepman’s famous phrase is: “Give our children books, and you will give them wings.”
Since 1956, the prize has been awarded to the author of the best children's book. Since 1966, it has also been awarded to the best illustrator.
The Children's Book Council of Russia has been part of the International Children's Book Council organization since 1968.
Many Russians - writers, illustrators, translators - were awarded Honorary Diplomas. The prize was awarded to a representative of the USSR only once - in 1976, the medal was awarded to Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina, an illustrator of a children's book.
In 1974, the International Jury especially noted the work of Sergei Mikhalkov, and in 1976 - Agnia Barto. Honorary diplomas were awarded in different years to the writers Anatoly Aleksin for the story “Characters and Performers”, Valery Medvedev for the poem “Barankin’s Fantasies”, Yuri Koval for the book of stories and short stories “The Lightest Boat in the World”, Eno Raud for the first part of the tetralogy of stories -fairy tales “Muff, Low Boot and Moss Beard” and others; illustrators Yuri Vasnetsov, Viktor Chizhikov, Evgeniy Rachev and others; translators Boris Zakhoder, Irina Tokmakova, Lyudmila Brauda and others. In 2008 and 2010, artist Nikolai Popov was nominated for the prize.
Today, any person’s childhood is unthinkable without his fairy tales. His name became a symbol of everything real, pure, high. It is no coincidence that the highest international award for the best children's book bears his name - the Hans-Christian Andersen Gold Medal, which is awarded every two years to the most talented writers and artists.
Founded in 1956, Internationalname award Hans Christian Andersen(Hans Christian Andersen Award) is the most prestigious in the field of children's books and is comparable in importance to the Nobel Prize. This prize was founded by the International Council for Children's and Youth Literature of UNESCO, thanks to the idea of a cultural figure in the field of children's literature, Jelle Lepman (1891-1970). The honorary mission of guardianship of the prize is performed by the Queen of Denmark. The prize is awarded by a jury that brings together writers and specialists in children's literature from different countries.
Every two years, on the birthday of one of the best storytellers of all time, Hans Christian Andersen, an award ceremony is held for the best children's writer and, since 1966, the best illustrator of children's books. On April 2, the best writers and artists, selected from a list nominated by the National Sections of the Children's Book Council, receive gold medals with Andersen's profile and diplomas. There is no cash equivalent of the award. Among the winners of the award over the years were Astrid Lindgren, Tove Jansson, Quentin Blake, Erich Kästner, David Almond.
Founders of the International awards name Hans Christian Andersen, as a tribute to the memory of the great children's writer, announced April 2 as International Children's Book Day. This day is celebrated in various countries as part of Children's Literature Week. Every year, one of the sections of the Children's Book Council carries out the honorable mission of organizing the holiday. It is mandatory to create a colorful poster and write an international message for children around the world, designed to popularize reading children's books.
Another literary prize has been established in Denmark - bonus named after Hans Christian Andersen(Hans Christian Andersen Litteraturpris), which distinguishes the worthy among those children's writers whose book ideas are similar to the ideas of the works of the genius himself. The prize was first awarded in 2007 to the famous writer Paulo Coelho. Unlike the International awards named after Hans Christian Andersen this award has a cash equivalent of 2222 euros.
List of award-winning writers
1956 Eleanor Farjeon (UK)
1958 Astrid Lindgren (Swedish Astrid Lindgren, Sweden)
1960 Erich Kästner (German: Erich Kästner, Germany)
1962 Meindert DeJong (eng. Meindert DeJong, USA)
1964 René Guillot (French)
1966 Tove Jansson (Finnish: Tove Jansson, Finland)
1968 James Krüss (German: James Krüss, Germany), Jose Maria Sanchez-Silva (Spain)
1970 Gianni Rodari (Italian: Gianni Rodari, Italy)
1972 Scott O'Dell (eng. Scott O'Dell, USA)
1974 Maria Gripe (Swedish Maria Gripe, Sweden)
1976 Cecil Bødker (Denmark)
1978 Paula Fox (USA)
1980 Bohumil Říha (Czech. Bohumil Říha, Czechoslovakia)
1982 Lygia Bojunga (port. Lygia Bojunga, Brazil)
1984 Christine Nöstlinger (German: Christine Nöstlinger, Austria)
1986 Patricia Wrightson (English Patricia Wrightson, Australia)
1988 Annie Schmidt (Dutch Annie Schmidt, Netherlands)
1990 Tormod Haugen (Norwegian Tormod Haugen, Norway)
1992 Virginia Hamilton (USA)
1994 Michio Mado (Japanese: まど・みちお, Japan)
1996 Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב, Israel)
1998 Katherine Paterson (USA)
2000 Anna Maria Machado (port. Ana Maria Machado, Brazil)
2002 Aidan Chambers, UK
2006 Margaret Mahy (New Zealand)
2008 Jürg Schubiger (German: Jürg Schubiger, Switzerland)
2010 David Almond (UK)
2012 Maria Teresa Andruetto (Spanish: María Teresa Andruetto), Argentina
List of award-winning illustrators
1966 Alois Carighiet (Switzerland)
1968 Jiri Trnka (Czechoslovakia)
1970 Maurice Sendak (USA)
1972 Ib Spang Olsen (Denmark)
1974 Farshid Mesghali (Iran)
1976 Tatyana Mavrina (USSR)
1978 Svend Otto S. (Denmark)
1980 Suekichi Akaba (Japan)
1982 Zbigniew Rychlicki (Polish: Zbigniew Rychlicki, Poland)
1984 Mitsumasa Anno (Japan)
1986 Robert Ingpen (Australia)
1988 Dusan Kallay (Czechoslovakia)
1990 Lisbeth Zwerger (Austria)
1992 Kveta Patovska (Czech Republic)
1994 Jörg Müller (Switzerland)
1996 Klaus Ensikat (Germany)
1998 Tomi Ungerer (French: Tomi Ungerer, France)
2000 Anthony Brown (Great Britain)
2002 Quentin Blake (UK)
2004 Max Velthuijs (Netherlands)
2006 Wolf Erlbruch (Germany)
2008 Roberto Innocenti (Italy)
2010 Jutta Bauer (German: Jutta Bauer, Germany)
2012 Peter Sís (Czech Peter Sís, Czech Republic)
The Hans Christian Andersen Award is a literary prize that honors the best children's writers (Hans Christian Andersen Author Award) and illustrators (Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration).
History and essence of the award
Organized in 1956 by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Awarded once every two years. The prize is awarded on the second of April - the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen. On the initiative and decision of the International Council, as a sign of deep respect and love for H. H. Andersen, in 1967, April 2 was declared International Children's Book Day. Every year one of the national sections of IBBY is the organizer of this holiday.
The idea to establish the prize belongs to Ella Lepman (1891-1970), a cultural figure in the field of world children's literature. E. Lepman’s famous phrase is: “Give our children books, and you will give them wings.”
Candidates for the award are nominated by national sections of the International Children's Book Council IBBY. The winners - writer and artist - are awarded gold medals with a profile of Hans Christian Andersen during the IBBY Congress. In addition, IBBY awards diplomas of honor to the best children's and youth books recently published in countries that are members of the International Council.
Andersen Prize and the Russians
The Russian Children's Book Council has been a member of the International Children's Book Council since 1968.
Many Russians - writers, illustrators, translators - were awarded Honorary Diplomas. The prize was awarded to a representative of the USSR only once - in 1976, the medal was awarded to Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina, an illustrator of a children's book.
In 1974, the International Jury especially noted the work of Sergei Mikhalkov, and in 1976 - Agnia Barto. Honorary diplomas were awarded in different years to the writers Anatoly Aleksin for the story “Characters and Performers”, Valery Medvedev for the poem “Barankin’s Fantasies”, Yuri Koval for the book of stories and short stories “The Lightest Boat in the World”, Eno Raud for the first part of the tetralogy of stories -fairy tales “Muff, Low Boot and Moss Beard” and others; illustrators Yuri Vasnetsov, Viktor Chizhikov, Evgeniy Rachev and others; translators Boris Zakhoder, Irina Tokmakova, Lyudmila Brauda and others. In 2008 and 2010, artist Nikolai Popov was nominated for the prize.
List of award-winning writers
* 1956 Eleanor Farjeon (UK)
* 1958 Astrid Lindgren (Swedish Astrid Lindgren, Sweden)
* 1960 Erich Kästner (German: Erich Kästner, Germany)
* 1962 Meindert DeJong (English: Meindert DeJong, USA)
* 1964 René Guillot (French)
* 1966 Tove Jansson (Finnish: Tove Jansson, Finland)
* 1968 James Krüss (German: James Krüss, Germany), Jose Maria Sanchez-Silva (Spain)
* 1970 Gianni Rodari (Italian: Gianni Rodari, Italy)
* 1972 Scott O'Dell (eng. Scott O'Dell, USA)
* 1974 Maria Gripe (Swedish Maria Gripe, Sweden)
* 1976 Cecil Bødker (Denmark)
* 1978 Paula Fox (USA)
* 1980 Bohumil Říha (Czech. Bohumil Říha, Czechoslovakia)
* 1982 Lygia Bojunga (port. Lygia Bojunga, Brazil)
* 1984 Christine Nöstlinger (German: Christine Nöstlinger, Austria)
* 1986 Patricia Wrightson (English: Patricia Wrightson, Australia)
* 1988 Annie Schmidt (Dutch Annie Schmidt, Netherlands)
* 1990 Tormod Haugen (Norwegian Tormod Haugen, Norway)
* 1992 Virginia Hamilton (USA)
* 1994 Michio Mado (Japanese: まど・みちお, Japan)
* 1996 Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב, Israel)
* 1998 Katherine Paterson (USA)
* 2000 Ana Maria Machado (port. Ana Maria Machado, Brazil)
* 2002 Aidan Chambers, UK
* 2006 Margaret Mahy (New Zealand)
* 2008 Jürg Schubiger (German: Jürg Schubiger, Switzerland)
* 2010 David Almond, UK
List of award-winning illustrators
* 1966 Alois Carighiet (Switzerland)
* 1968 Jiri Trnka (Czechoslovakia)
* 1970 Maurice Sendak (USA)
* 1972 Ib Spang Olsen (Denmark)
* 1974 Farshid Mesghali (Iran)
* 1976 Tatyana Mavrina (USSR)
* 1978 Svend Otto S. (Denmark)
* 1980 Suekichi Akaba (Japan)
* 1982 Zbigniew Rychlicki (Polish: Zbigniew Rychlicki, Poland)
* 1984 Mitsumasa Anno (Japan)
* 1986 Robert Ingpen (Australia)
* 1988 Dusan Kallay (Czechoslovakia)
* 1990 Lisbeth Zwerger (Austria)
* 1992 Kveta Patovska (Czech Republic)
* 1994 Jörg Müller (Switzerland)
* 1996 Klaus Ensikat (Germany)
* 1998 Tomi Ungerer (French: Tomi Ungerer, France)
* 2000 Anthony Brown (Great Britain)
* 2002 Quentin Blake (UK)
* 2004 Max Velthuijs (Netherlands)
* 2006 Wolf Erlbruch (Germany)
* 2008 Roberto Innocenti (Italy)
* 2010 Jutta Bauer (German: Jutta Bauer, Germany)
The Little Nobel Prize, as this prestigious international prize for children's literature is often called, is awarded by the International Board of Children's Books (IBBY).
The 2016 laureates of the G.Kh. Andersen became writer Cao Wenxuan (China) and illustratorRotraut Susanne Berner(Germany).
On April 4, 2016, at the International Children's Book Fair in Bologna, Patricia Aldana, Chairman of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize Jury, announced the winners and thanked Nami Island Inc of the Republic of Korea for sponsoring this prestigious award. The award ceremony will take place during the 35th IBBY International Congress in New Zealand in August this year.
Writer Cao Wenxuan(China)
It was a unanimous choice of the jury. Writer Cao Wenxuan writes about the difficult lives of children who face great challenges. He writes about what he himself encountered! A difficult childhood had a profound influence on his works, which contain no simple truths or ready-made answers.
One of his “iconic” books, the story “Bronze and Sunflower,” takes the reader back to the time of the Cultural Revolution in China. The action takes place in a small rural village, where a Center for “re-education” of people expelled from the city has been built. A mute village boy and a small city girl who comes to live with his rural family literally save each other with care and warmth. And the reader is deeply concerned about the fate of the children.
Another story by the writer tells about two brothers with Down syndrome. They left their villages at different times and then searched for each other for a long time in a world that alternately pitied, loved and rejected them.
These are not simple works, they openly say that life is often tragic and that children can suffer. At the same time, they affirm the best human qualities, preach love and kindness, and offer what children most need - hope!
Cao Wenxuan is an excellent example of how to write wonderful prose, where amazingly lyrical and beautiful lines are written about nature. And tell stories about brave children who face great difficulties and challenges.
His works attract a wide readership and, not only children's, help form a literary tradition in China that reflects the realities of the children's world.
Books Cao Wenxuan find an enthusiastic response from readers in England and France, Germany and Italy, and Korea. But children in many countries have yet to discover this wonderful writer.
ArtistRotraut Susanne Berner (Germany)
Works Suzanne Berner She is distinguished by her bright individuality; her illustrations are easily recognizable by their active reaction to the demands of the text.
Drawings for children's books Suzanne Berner can be hilariously funny and no less touching. She is not afraid to show the dark moments of life and build intricate and complex worlds filled with small, important narrative details that take the viewer on a long visual journey.
Children everywhere deserve to meet and experience Susanne Berner's brilliant and humane, richly emotional and deeply engaging unique illustrations for children's books.
Jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize noted the high quality of many materials submitted for the Prize. Unfortunately, many of the authors and illustrators have not been widely published internationally. This does not mean that they are not at the forefront of authors working for children. In modern conditions, many books are unfairly ignored by publishers, considering them difficult to translate.
However, in the jury's work, the first criterion for selecting nominees and winners was artistic excellence in writing and illustration. The jury was also interested to see how the nominee's professional career developed and whether he was ready to take creative risks. And finally What the nominee says to the children? It should be interesting, understandable and meaningful, and enrich the child's life.
Prize winners must be creators whose books necessary read to children all over the world, say members of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize Jury.
Jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize 2016(alphabetical order by country):
Patricia Aldana, Chairman of the Jury, Canada, Professor of Children's Literature
Lola Rubio, Argentina, editor and librarian
Dolores Prades, Brazil, publisher and expert
Wu Qing, China, Professor of English Literature
Kirsten Bystrup, Denmark, children's librarian
Yasmine Motawy. Egypt, professor of children's literature
Shoreh Yousefi, Iran, preschool teacher and editor
Andrew Ilc. Slovenia. children's book publisher
Reina Duarte, Spain. children's book publisher
Susan Stan, USA, professor of children's literature
Maria Beatriz Medina, Venezuela, director of BANCO del Libro, professor
Short listnominees 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Awards:
Illustrators:
Germany: Rotraut Susanne Berner
Iran: Pejman Rahimizadeh
Italy: Alessandro Sanna
Korea: Suzy Lee
Netherlands: Marit Törnqvist
Writers:
China:
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