Author of YA bestseller How I Live Now wins £430,000 prize, awarded annually to children’s authors and illustrators
Meg Rosoff has won the world’s richest prize for children’s literature, the Astrid Lindgren memorial award, honouring the entire body of an author’s work.
The author of numerous award-winning, bestselling young adult titles including How I Live Now and Just In Case, Rosoff was named winner of the SEK5m (£430,000) prize on Tuesday. Her young adult novels, said the jury, “speak to the emotions as well as the intellect”, and “in sparkling prose, she writes about the search for meaning and identity in a peculiar and bizarre world”.
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