A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author .
18-528: The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two literary awards given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for their "lasting contribution to children's literature ". The writing award was first given in 1956, the illustration award in 1966. The former is sometimes called the " Nobel Prize for children's literature". The awards are named after Hans Christian Andersen ,
36-513: A 19th-century Danish author of fairy tales , and each winner receives the Hans Christian Andersen Medaille (a gold medal with the bust of Andersen) and a diploma. Medals are presented at the biennial IBBY Congress. The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) was founded by Jella Lepman in the 1950s. The Hans Christian Andersen Award was first proposed in 1953 and awarded three years later, in 1956. It
54-458: A barometer of bourgeois bad taste." He says juries can be influenced by vendettas, paybacks and payoffs, "most judges are fair-minded people. But hate, conceit and jealousy are no less human attributes than wisdom, judgment and knowledge." Book prizes will sometimes compete with one another, and these goals do not always coincide with anointing the best winner. Sometimes juries can not decide between two contentious books so they will compromise with
72-692: A certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics ). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( Spanish ); the Camões Prize ( Portuguese ); the Booker Prize , The Writers' Prize , the Pulitzer Prize and the Hugo Award ( English ). Other international literary prizes include
90-596: A diverse group. It generally takes six months to review candidates and select a winner. Jella Lepman served as Jury President for the first three Andersen Awards, 1956 to 1960, and remained on the jury until her death in 1970, as the President of IBBY and then as its honorary president. Current four-year terms cover two award cycles. Other notable presidents have included Virginia Haviland (1970–1974), Patricia Crampton (1982–1986), and Ana Maria Machado (1986–1990). The award's regulations read: "The Hans Christian Award
108-415: A new candidate each time. To nominate a candidate, a dossier is prepared that provides information including a list of works and biographical sketch. The portfolio must have between five and ten books by the candidate, which are sent to jurors, IBBY's president, and the "Jury Secretary". There were sixty-six nominees from thirty-three countries for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen awards. Each winner receives
126-501: A third inoffensive bland book. He says there are now so many awards and prizes it has diluted the prestige of being a prize-winning book. Flanagan clarifies he is not against literary awards, but believes they should not be taken too seriously as a form of support for literary culture. Farshid Mesghali Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
144-508: Is not explicitly given to a certain country. IBBY has many member nations—all countries are eligible for membership. Every member nation has its own organization, known as a "national section", that is active across the country. All member nations can nominate candidates for consideration in the Hans Christian Andersen Awards. Some member states will repeatedly nominate the same author or illustrator, others nominate
162-429: Is presented every two years by IBBY to an author and to an illustrator, living at the time of the nomination, who by the outstanding value of their work are judged to have made a lasting contribution to literature for children and young people. The complete works of the author and the illustrator will be taken into consideration in the selection process". The award is explicitly designed to be an "international" work, and it
180-1101: The Nobel Prize in Literature , the Franz Kafka Prize , and the Jerusalem Prize . The International Dublin Literary Award is given to writers, as well as to the translator(s) if the book chosen was written in a language other than English. Spoof awards include: The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award , the Bookseller /Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year , and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction and Lyttle Lytton Contests , given to deliberately bad grammar There are also literary awards targeted specifically to encourage
198-460: The Hans Christian Andersen Awards is selected by a jury which is put together by IBBY's executive committee. The Jury's president is elected by IBBY's General Assembly. There were initially seven jurors, but this was increased to eight and in 2000 to ten. Two years later, the jury was split with five members focusing on writing and the other five handling illustrations. The jurors are expected to be competent in children's literature and ideally represent
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#1732772420737216-417: The Hans Christian Andersen Medaille, a gold medal with the bust of Andersen, and a diploma. These medals are presented at the biennial IBBY Congress. The winners are most often residents of Europe and North America; the first winner from outside that region was Farshid Mesghali in 1974, from Iran. After receiving the award, many authors and illustrators have their works gain wider recognition, particularly in
234-412: The form of more translations. As of 2024 there have been award winners from 29 countries. Americans have won the most writing awards (6) and have the most award winners (7). Germans have won the most illustration awards with four. Literary award Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony . Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as
252-434: The outstanding value of his or her work. The author's complete works, in particular those in fiction, will be taken into consideration in awarding the medal." Runners up were listed in 1960, 1962, and 1964. In reflection of what IBBY considered to be a trend of increasing quality in picture books, the award was expanded to include illustrators in 1966. From 1966 to 1996 runners up were named as "Highly Commended". In 1998, this
270-472: The presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize ). There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels . Many awards are also dedicated to
288-569: The writing from African American origin and authors of African descent. Two of these awards are Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence , which was established in 2007 by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation , and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award , which is a given by the National Community of Black Writers. Australian author Richard Flanagan wrote a critique of literary awards, saying "National prizes are often
306-404: Was established in the aftermath of World War II to encourage the development of high-quality children's books. The award was set to be given biennially and was initially awarded for individual works that had been published in the preceding two years. By 1962, the award's formal criteria were amended "to a living author who is judged to have made a lasting contribution to good juvenile literature by
324-463: Was replaced with a list of three to four "Finalists". It is sometimes called the "Little Nobel Prize " or the "Nobel Prize for children's literature" and has been cited as the "most important activity" of IBBY. Between 1992 and 2022, the patron of the awards was Queen Margrethe II of Denmark . A special issue of Bookbird , a journal published by IBBY, is published as the award is given out. The winner of
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