More details hereĪnd the 2022 IBBY Honors List was also announced this month, a biennial selection of outstanding books which honors the work of authors, illustrators and translators in 63 IBBY member countries. The 2022 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award went to: Pinnguaqta, a programme of Ilitaqsinniq – The Nunavut Literary Council, from Canada.

The 2022 IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award was awarded to: Zohreh Ghaeni from Iran, nominated by the IBBY sections in Canada and Iran, and Jane Kurtz from the United States nominated by USBBY (Jane is co-founder of Ready Set Go Books which publishes Ethiopian Amharic / English bilingual books). See the IBBY website for profiles of these two feted children’s book creators. IBBY announced the winners of the 2022 IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Award: Marie-Aude Murail from France for Writing and Suzy Lee from the Republic of Korea for Illustration. She began her career as a comic artist and cartoonist, and has had a major influence on the new generation of comic book artists now emerging in Sweden. Lindström was born in 1952 and lives in Stockholm. She has been nominated once for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and eleven times for the August award which she won in 2013. According to Gecko Press, who have published two of her books in English translation, Eva Lindström has written and illustrated many highly acclaimed picture books. The Swedish picture book artist Eva Lindström received the 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA).

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