The Hans Christian Anderson Awards

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The Hans Christian Anderson Awards are two literary awards presented every two years by IBBY (the International Board of Books for Young People) to an Author and an Illustrator who have been judged to have made a lasting contribution to Literature for children and young people due to the outstanding value of their bodies of work. Each Author and Illustators complete works are often considered during the selection progress. The Awards are explicitly designed to focus on international work, Their not given to a certain country each time. The first writing award was given in 1956, the first illustration award in 1966. the writing award portion is often considered the Nobel Prize for Children's Literature.

Winners of the Awards are chosen by a jury which is put together by IBBY's Executive Committee, there are Ten Jurors, five of whom focus on the writing award whilst the other five focus on the Illustration award. The Jurors are expected to be rather competent in children's literature and ideally represent a diverse group of authors and genres. Winners are chosen after six months of review. Each winner receives the Hans Christian Anderson Medaille, a gold medal with the bust of Anderson and a Diploma. These are presented at the Biennial IBBY Congress.

The winners are often residents of Europe and North America, though Farshid Mesghali from Iran was the first from outside both having won in 1974. Sydney Smith from Canada is the 2024 winner. The winners often gain larger recognition for their works after winning, often in the form of more translations. As of 2024 there have been award winners from 29 countries. American have won the most Writing Awards with six and Germans have won the most Illustration Awards with four.

'Hans Christian Anderson (April 2^nd 1805-August 4^th 1875) was a Danish Author most known for his literary Fairy Tales, Though he was a prolific writer of Plays, Travelogues, Novels and Poems.

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