Hans Christian Andersen Awards nominees

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The nominees for 2012 are:

http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=1186

* Argentina: Author: María Teresa Andruetto; Illustrator: Pablo
Bernasconi
* Australia: Author: Christobel Mattingley; Illustrator: Bob
Graham
* Austria: Author: Monika Pelz; Illustrator: Renate Habinger
* Belgium: Author: Bart Moeyaert; Illustrator: Louis Joos
* Brazil: Author: Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós; Illustrator: Roger
Mello
* Canada: Author: Tim Wynne-Jones; Illustrator: Stéphane Jorisch
* Cyprus: Author: Elli Peonidou
* Czech Republic: Illustrator: Peter Sís
* Denmark: Author: Lene Kaaberbøl; Illustrator: Charlotte Pardi
* Finland: Author: Sinikka Nopola/Tiina Nopola; Illustrator: Virpi
Talvitie
* France: Author: Jean-Claude Mourlevat; Illustrator: Henri
Galeron
* Germany: Author: Paul Maar; Illustrator: Rotraut Susanne Berner
* Greece: Author: Christos Boulotis; Illustrator: Effie Lada
* Iran: Illustrator: Mohammad Ali Baniasadi
* Ireland: Author: Eoin Colfer
* Italy: Author: Bianca Pitzorno; Illustrator: Francesco Tullio-
Altan
* Japan: Author: Masamoto Nasu; Illustrator: Satoshi Kako
* Republic of Korea: Author: Hwang Sun-mi; Illustrator: Hong Seong-
Chan
* Latvia: Illustrator: Anita Paegle
* Netherlands: Author: Tonke Dragt; Illustrator: Annemarie van
Haeringen
* Norway: Author: Bjørn Sortland; Illustrator: Øyvind Torseter
* Romania: Author: Silvia Kerim; Illustrator: Valeria Moldovan
* Russia: Illustrator: Gennadij Spirin
* Serbia: Author: Ljubivoje Ršumoviċ; Illustrator: Dobrosav
Živkoviċ
* Slovenia: Author: Tone Pavček; Illustrator: Alenka Sottler
* Spain: Author: Agustín Fernández Paz; Illustrator: Javier Zabala
Herrero
* Sweden: Author: Lennart Hellsing; Illustrator: Anna-Clara
Tidholm
* Switzerland: Author: Franz Hohler; Illustrator: Kathrin Schärer
* Turkey: Author: Sevim Ak; Illustrator: Feridun Oral
* United Kingdom: Author: Philip Pullman; Illustrator: John
Burningham
* USA: Author: Paul Fleischman; Illustrator: Chris Raschka
* Venezuela: Illustrator: Arnal Ballester


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And the winners are.....

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/51133-mar-a-teresa-andruetto-peter-s-s-win-hans-christian-andersen-awards.html

Hints:

The awards jury cited ---------’s “mastery in writing important and
original works that are strongly focused on aesthetics. Her books
relate to a great variety of topics, such as migration, inner worlds,
injustice, love, poverty, violence or political affairs.”

The jury praised ---’s “extraordinary originality and deep creative
power to relate highly complex stories that can be interpreted on many
different levels,” noting “his use of different design and artistic
techniques.”


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And the winners are......

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And....

María Teresa Andruetto is the first Argentine to win the HCA Award in
either category!

Peter Sís, on the other hand, is the fourth Czech to win the
Illustration Award.

The other illustrators were:

1968: Jiri Trnka

1988: Dusan Kallay (born 1948)

1992: Kveta Pacovska (born 1928)


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And finally:

María Teresa Andruetto was born in 1954, in Córdoba, Argentina.

http://www.literaturfestival.com/participants/authors/2004/maria-teresa-andruetto
(includes photo)

Children’s literature

The girl, the heart and the house, short novel, 2011
La durmiente, Story, 2010
El incendio (The Fire), Story, 2008.
Agua Cero (Zero Water), Poems for children, 2007
Trenes. Una historia de amor para niños (Trains), Stories, 2008
El árbol de Lilas (The Lilac Tree), Story, 2006
Solgo. Story, 2004
Veladuras (Glazes), Novel for young readers, 2004
El país de Juan (Juan’s Country), Novel, 2003
La mujer vampiro (The Vampire Woman), Stories, 2001
Stefano, short novel,1997
Huellas en la arena (Tracks in the San), Stories, 1997
El anillo encantado ( The Enchanted Ring), Stories,1993


About Peter Sís:

http://www.petersis.com/content/about.html
(his website)

Excerpts:

"Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and
filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1949 and attended
the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in
London. He began his career as a filmmaker and won the Golden Bear
Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. He
has also won the Grand Prix Toronto and the Cine Golden Eagle Award,
and in 1983 collaborated with Bob Dylan on You Got to Serve Somebody.
His film work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern
Art, New York.

"In 1982 he was sent by the Czech government to Los Angeles to produce
a film for the 1984 Winter Olympics. But the film project was canceled
when Czechoslovakia and the entire Eastern bloc decided to boycott the
Olympics. Ordered by his government to return home, Peter decided to
stay in the United States and was granted asylum. A correspondence
with Maurice Sendak led to a meeting and Peter's introduction to
children's book editors, and he moved to New York City in 1984 to
begin a new career.

"Sís quickly became one of the leading artists in the field with the
publication of the 1986 Newbery Medal Winner, The Whipping Boy by Sid
Fleishman. With more than twenty books to his credit and almost as
many honors, Peter is a six-time winner of The New York Times Book
Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year for Rainbow Rhino, Beach
Ball, Follow the Dream, Komodo!, The Three Golden Keys, and The Tree
of Life: Charles Darwin. Komodo! and A Small Tall Tale from the Far
Far North were each named a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book,
and he has won a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal for Komodo! and a
Silver Medal for The Three Golden Keys. Peter's book Starry Messenger:
Galileo Galilei was a 1997 Caldecott Honor Book and has been published
in English, French, German, Czech, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, and Spanish. Madlenka, Madlenka's Dog, and The Tree
of Life: Charles Darwin were all named New York Times Book Review
Notable Children's Books of the Year................"

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/special/peter-sis-childrens-author-and-illustrator-forever-caught-between-two-realities
(long interview from 2008)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_S%C3%ADs
(more)


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