Barnboksförfattaren Jon Klassen får årets Almapris
Den kanadensiske bilderbokskonstnären Jon Klassen tilldelas Almapriset, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
”Genom sitt subtila och suggestiva berättande i text och bild öppnar Jon Klassen nya perspektiv på vår plats i världsalltet”, skriver juryn i sin motivering.
Klassen slog igenom 2011 med boken ”Jag vill ha min hatt” och har följt upp med fler hatt-böcker och andra småbarnsfavoriter som ”Stenen från himlen”.
Priset till Astrid Lindgrens minne har delats ut sedan 2002 och prissumman är fem miljoner kronor.
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Jon Klassen
Wikipedia (en)
Jon Klassen (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 picture book This Is Not My Hat, which he also wrote. He is the first person to win both awards for the same work.
This Is Not My Hat is a companion to Klassen's preceding picture book, I Want My Hat Back (2011), which was his first as both writer and illustrator. Both books were on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than 40 weeks; by April 2014 one or the other had been translated into 22 languages and they had jointly surpassed one million worldwide sales. Both books were recommended for children ages 5+ by the Greenaway judges. Klassen's "hat" trilogy was completed with the publication of We Found a Hat (2016).
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