Hans Christian Andersen Medals

International Board on Books for Young People

Established 1956. Currently awarded every two years to one author and one illustrator in recognition of his or her entire body of work.

1996: Author: Uri Orlev (Israel)
Illustrator: Klaus Ensikat (Germany)
1994: Author: Michio Mado (Japan)
Illustrator: Jörg Müller (Switzerland)
1992: Author: Virginia Hamilton (United States)
Illustrator: Kveta Pacovska (Czechoslovakia)
1990: Author: Tormod Haugen (Norway)
Illustrator: Lisbeth Zwerger (Austria)
1988: Author: Annie M.G. Schmidt (Netherlands)
Illustrator: Dusan Kallay (Czechoslovakia)
1986: Author: Patricia Wrightson (Australia)
Illustrator: Robert Ingpen (Australia)
1984: Author: Christine Nöstlinger (Austria)
Illustrator: Mitsumasa Anno (Japan)
1982: Author: Lygia Bojunga Nunes (Brazil)
Illustrator: Zbigniew Rychlicki (Poland)
1980: Author: Bohumil Ríha (Czechoslovakia)
Illustrator: Suekichi Akaba (Japan)
1978: Author: Paula Fox (USA)
Illustrator: Svend Otto S. (Denmark)
1976: Author: Cecil Bødker (Denmark)
Illustrator: Tatjana Mawrina (USSR)
1974: Author: Maria Gripe (Sweden)
Illustrator: Farshid Mesghali (Iran)
1972: Author: Scott O'Dell (USA)
Illustrator: Ib Spang Olsen (Denmark)
1970: Author: Gianni Rodari (Italy)
Illustrator: Maurice Sendak (USA)
1968: Authors: James Krüss (West Germany) and José Maria Sanchez-Silva (Spain)
Illustrator: Jirí Trnka (Czechoslovakia)
1966: Author: Tove Jansson (Finland)
Illustrator: Alois Carigiet (Switzerland)
1964: Author: René Guillot (France)
1962: Author: Meindert DeJong (USA)
1960: Author: Erich Kästner (West Germany)
1958: Author: Astrid Lindgren (Sweden)
1956: Author: Eleanor Farjeon (Great Britain)

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