British lead nominations for world's richest children's book prize

Nominees for this year’s £400,000 Astrid Lindgren award range from Argentina to Zambia

UK authors are leading the charge for the world’s richest children’s literature prize, the Astrid Lindgren memorial award, with 20 British writers and illustrators among this year’s 237 nominations. Next is Sweden with 13, followed by Australia with 12 and the US with 11.

The prize, which is worth SEK 5m (£400,000), was founded by the Swedish government to honour the memory of Pippi Longstocking’s creator. It goes to a children’s author, illustrator, oral storyteller or reading promoter from anywhere in the world, whom a jury of experts deem to be “working in the spirit” of Astrid Lindgren.

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