Belgian illustrator and author Kitty Crowther has won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial award
Announced today in Sweden and broadcast live at the Bologna Book Fair, Kitty Crowther is the recipient of the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial award. Click here to read the press release and click here to see our photos from the announcement. PaperTigers was a nominating body for this year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial award, the world’s largest prize for children’s and young adult literature, so we were definitely looking forward to the award announcement. We got to the seating area early and it turned out that we were sitting right next to Kitty! It was most exciting to see her reaction when her name was announced. Definitely one of our highlights from the Fair!
March 24th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Yes, and her phone was buzzing continuously from the moment of the announcement, while she was up at the front!
March 24th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Great news for Kitty Crowther! Does she have a website, do you know?
March 24th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Sally – I couldn’t find a website for her but if I do come across one, I will update it here.
March 25th, 2010 at 11:15 am
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March 26th, 2010 at 7:41 am
Thanks for the info on the tweets! I’m a FBer myself and haven’t gotten onto Twitter yet.
May 18th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
[...] Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) 2011. Having barely caught our breath from this year’s announcement of Kitty Crowther as the ALMA winner for 2010, we found ourselves working right up to the mark to [...]
May 20th, 2010 at 2:40 am
[...] of my highlights from the 2010 Bologna Book Fair was attending the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award announcement and seeing the winner, Kitty Crowther, who unbeknownst to us had been sitting next to us, accept [...]