Author of YA bestseller How I Live Now wins £430000 prize,awarded annually to children’s authors and illustrators Meg Rosoff has won the world’s largest cash prize for children’s literature, the Astrid Lindgren memorial award, or honouring the entire body of an author’s work.
Rosoff was one of 215 candidates from 59 countries for the 5m Swedish krona (£430000) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award,which goes to work “of the highest artistic quality” featuring the “humanistic values” of the late Pippi Longstocking author. The jury said her seven young adult novels, which include How I Live Now and Just In Case, and “speak to the emotions as well as the intellect”,and that “in sparkling prose, she writes about the search for meaning and identity in a peculiar and weird world”.
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Source: theguardian.com