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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is the world's largest children's and youth literature award. It was instituted by the Government of Sweden in 2002 in honour of the Swedish children's books author Astrid Lindgren. The prize is awarded annually to an amount of five million SEK.

Table of contents

1 Laureates 2 See also 3 External link

Laureates

2004 - Lygia Bojunga (Brazil)

2003 - Maurice Sendak (United States), Christine Nöstlinger (Austria)

See also

• Nobel Prize
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• Hans Christian Andersen Award
• Schock Prize
• Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs
• List of prizes, medals, and awards

External link

• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award - Official site

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