Hans Christian Andersen Awards – The ΙΒΒΥ Honour Lists
Every other year, IBBY presents the Hans Christian Andersen Awards to a living author and illustrator whose complete woks have made a lasting contribution to children’s literature.
The Hans Christian Andersen Award, a gold metal, is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children’s books. It is the “little Nobel” for children’s literature
The nominations are made by the National Sections of IBBY and the recipients are selected by a distinguished jury of children’s literature specialists. The Greek IBBY has been represented in the international juries by the late Alexandra Plakotari (1972-1974), and Professor Maria Mirazgezi (1990). Eva Kaliskami has been elected to participate in the jury for the 2012 awards.
Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou, the Honorary President of the Circle, served a four-year term as Member of the IBBY Executive Committee (1998-2002) and as President of the Jury for the international Asahi Reading Promotion Award in 2002 and 2003.
For the past ten years, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards are sponsored by the Korean Nami Island Inc.
The IBBY Honour Lists
The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of outstanding, recently published books, honouring writers, illustrators and translators from IBBY member countries. The titles are selected by the National Sections which can nominate one book for each List. For a country with a substantial and continuing production of children's books in more than one language, up to three books may be submitted for writing and translation in each official language. Honour list titles circulate around the world at exhibitions during conferences and book fairs.
