Hans Christian Andersen Award
The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children's books. Given every other year by IBBY, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards recognize lifelong achievement and are presented to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children's literature.
The Author's Award has been given since 1956 and the Illustrator's Award since 1966. The Award consists of a gold medal and a diploma, presented at a festive ceremony during the biennial IBBY Congress.
1. 1966 Alois Carigiet (Switzerland)
Alois Carigiet (30 August 1902 – 1 August 1985) was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, and illustrator. He may be known best for six children's picture books set in the Alps, A Bell for Ursli and its sequels, written by Selina Chönz, and three that he wrote himself. In 1966 he received the inaugural Hans Christian Andersen Medal for children's illustrators.
2. 1968 Jiří Trnka (Czecho-Slovakia)
伊里·特恩卡
Jiří Trnka (24 February 1912 – 30 December 1969) was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director.In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is best known for his work in animation with puppets, which began in 1946. Most of his films were intended for adults and many were adaptations of literary works. Because of his influence in animation, he was called "the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe", despite the great differences between their works. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustrators in 1968, recognizing his career contribution to children's literature.
3. 1970 Maurice Sendak (United States)
莫里斯·桑达克
"Children are willing to dealt with many dubious subjects that grown-ups think they shouldn’t know about."
Maurice Bernard Sendak (/ˈsɛndæk/; June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He became widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and illustrated many works by other authors including the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik.
4. 1972 IB Spang Olsen (Denmark)
依卜·斯旁·奥尔森
Ib Spang Olsen (11 June 1921 – 15 January 2012) was a Danish writer and illustrator best known to generations of Danes for cartoons and illustrations, many of which appeared in children's publications. Those include a series of nursery rhyme books written by Halfdan Rasmussen, including "Halfdans ABC".He also wrote his own children's books, such as the whimsical tale of the seasons, The Marsh Crone's Brew. Olsen drew for newspapers, magazines, books, posters, television, and comics. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator Olsen received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1972.
5. 1974 Farshid Mesghali (Iran)
法尔希德·马斯哈里
Farshid Mesghali (Persian: فرشید مثقالی, born July 1943) is an Iranian animator, graphic designer, illustrator, animator, and writer who has lived in the United States since 1986. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1974 for his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator.
6. 1976 Tatjana Mawrina (Russia)
塔吉雅娜·玛芙丽娜
Tatyana Alekseevna Mawrina (Russian: Татьяна Алексеевна Маврина; 7 December 1900 – 19 August 1996) was a Russian artist and children's book illustrator. In 1976, she won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, an international award given to authors and illustrators who have made substantial contributions to children's literature. Up until 2018, she was the only Russian to win the award. She also was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1975 and the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) in 1981. Her illustrations for children mainly consisted of fairy tales and were in the style of the Russian lubok.
7. 1978 Svend Otto (Denmark)
斯汶·奥托
“When you sit in your study and try to put a text into pictures, you try to send drawings full of ideas and emotions out into the world, and you hope for a response- the hope that these pictures will arouse similar ideas and emotions in others.....”
Svend Otto S., de son vrai nom Svend Otto Sørensen (2 juin 1916 - 25 mai 1996) est un illustrateur danois. Né à Copenhague, il étudie les arts au Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design de Londres en 1938. Dans les années 1950, il illustre des classiques de la littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse, notamment les contes d'Andersen ou des frères Grimm. Il utilisait une technique classique à l'aquarelle pour illustrer des livres pour enfants. En France, ses livres ont été publiés par l'atelier du Père Castor.
8. 1980 Suekichi Akaba (Japan)
赤羽 末吉
“A picture book is not a picture gallery. Displaying good pictures one by one will not make a good picture book. What is important is the flow and the drama created by turing the pages.”
Suekichi Akaba (赤羽 末吉, Akaba Suekichi?, 1910-1990) est un illustrateur et auteur de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse japonais. En 1931, il est parti en Mandchourie pour travailler dans l'industrie. Il revient au Japon en 1947. Autodidacte, il commence à peindre et à écrire et publie en 1961 son premier album. Il a aussi illustré les histoires d'autres auteurs, comme Le Cheval blanc de Suho de Yûzo Ôtsuka, L'Ogre et le Charpentier de Tadashi Matsui, ou La Femme oiseau de Sumiko Yagawa. En 1980, il reçoit le Prix Hans Christian Andersen pour son travail d'illustrateur.
9. 1982 Zbigniew Rychlicki (Poland)
泽比纽·里科利齐
Zbigniew Rychlicki (17 January 1922 – 10 September 1989) was a Polish graphic artist, and illustrator of children's books. He received the Hans Christian Andersen Awards Prize in 1982. He studied at the Academy for Fine Arts in Kraków in 1956. Rychlicki was in charge of the graphic part of the magazine "Teddy Bear." In 1949 he moved to Warsaw, and acted as the director of the Publishing Institute "Our Bookstore" “Nasza Księgarnia”. He authored the illustrations of several children's books, including From things into things by Wanda Chotomska, Please elephant by Ludwik Jerzy Kern, Plastusiowy diary of Mary Kownacka, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. and Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
10. 1984 Misumasa Anno (Japan)
安野 光雅
Mitsumasa Anno (安野 光雅, Anno Mitsumasa, 20 March 1926 – 24 December 2020) was a Japanese illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books with few or no words. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature."
11. 1986 Robert Ingpen (Australia)
罗伯特·英潘
Robert Roger Ingpen (born 13 October 1936) is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986. Ingpen has written or illustrated more than 100 published books. These include children's picture books and fictional stories for all ages. His nonfiction books mostly relate to history, conservation, environment and health issues. His most frequent collaborator has been the author and editor Michael Page.
12. 1988 Dušan Kállay (Czecho-Slovakia)
杜桑·凯利
Dusan Kallay (b.1948, Slovakia) is a painter, printmaker and illustrator. He received Master’s Degrees in painting and printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (1972). Shortly after his graduation, his works, particularly illustrations, began to gain a wide recognition at international venues. In 1983, Dusan Kallay received Grand Prix at the acclaimed international Biennial of Illustration Bratislava for his illustration of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. In 1988, he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for his lifelong achievement in illustration, and, in 2002, his design for a Slovak stamp History of Postal Law was recognized as the Most Beautiful Stamp of the World (WIPA International Exhibition Vienna, Austria).
13. 1990 Lisbeth Zwerger (Austria)
莉丝白·茨威格
“To illustrate a fairy tale is not an intellectual, scientific interpretation, but a transposition of internal pictures and feelings. ”
Lisbeth Zwerger (born 1954) is an Austrian illustrator of children's books. For her "lasting contribution to children's literature" she received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1990. Zwerger was born in Vienna in 1954. She studied 1971 to 1974 at the Applied Arts Academy of Vienna, but left before completing the course of studies. She married English artist John Rowe. Since the publication of her first illustrated book in 1977 she has worked as a freelance picture book illustrator in Vienna, specializing in fairy tales.
14. 1992 Květa Pacovská (Czech Republic)
柯薇塔·巴可维斯基
“A drawing is such as it is. It should not and cannot pretend. It expresses our feelings and our thoughts”
Květa Pacovská (born 28 July 1928) is a Czech artist and illustrator. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1992 for her "lasting contribution to children's literature". Pacovská was born in Prague and studied at its School of Applied Arts, where she mainly worked in graphic art, arts, conceptual art and artist book fields. For many years she developed a career as a graphic designer and participated in more than 50 exhibitions. In 1961 she started drawing picture books for her own children. Her work is characterised by the use of geometric forms and vibrant colours, mainly red.
15. 1994 Jörg Müller (Switzerland)
约克·米勒
“When illustrating, I don’t have to imagine other children’s dreams- they are the same as my own.”
Jörg Müller (né le 11 octobre 1942 à Lausanne) est un illustrateur et dessinateur de bande dessinée suisse spécialisé dans la littérature jeunesse. Il a reçu en 1994 la principale distinction dans ce domaine, le prix Hans-Christian-Andersen. Jörg Müller passe sa petite enfance à Lausanne puis il va habiter dans les environs de Zurich. Il étudie les arts appliqués à l'école des arts et métiers de Zurich puis le graphisme à Bienne. Il commence son parcours professionnel dans des agences de publicité à Paris avant de devenir indépendant et de revenir s'installer à Bienne en Suisse. En 1967, il crée son propre atelier où il crée des marionnettes, des dessins animés et illustre des livres pour la jeunesse. Jörg Müller privilégie la peinture acrylique dans ses illustrations. Son style s'inspire principalement du courant du photo-réalisme
16. 1996 Klaus Ensikat (Germany)
克劳斯·恩西卡特
Klaus Ensikat (né le 16 janvier 1937 à Berlin) est un graphiste et illustrateur allemand de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse. Il fait des études d'art dans le quartier de Berlin-Oberschöneweide. Il devient enseignant en art. Il a travaillé comme dessinateur de presse, et comme illustrateur de littérature pour la jeunesse.
17. 1998 Tomi Ungerer (France)
托米·安热雷
Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer ( 28 November 1931 – 9 February 2019) was an Alsatian artist and writer. He published over 140 books ranging from children's books to adult works and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. He was known for sharp social satire and witty aphorisms. Ungerer is also famous as a cartoonist and designer of political posters and film posters. Ungerer received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998 for his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator.
18. 2000 Anthony Browne (United Kingdom)
安东尼·布朗
http://www.anthonybrownebooks.com/
“gorillas are …huge, powerful, fierce-looking creatures, who are actually gentle, delicate, sensitive animals.”
Anthony Edward Tudor Browne (born 11 September 1946) is a British writer and illustrator of children's books, primarily picture books. Browne has written or illustrated over fifty books, and received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2000. From 2009 to 2011 he was Children's Laureate. Browne won two Kate Greenaway Medals from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named his 1983 medalist Gorilla one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.
19. 2002 Quentin Blake (United Kingdom)
Sir Quentin Saxby Blake (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. From 1999 to 2001 he was the inaugural British Children's Laureate.[3] He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.
20. 2004 Max Velthuijs (The Netherlands)
马克斯·维尔修思
Max Velthuijs (1923–2005) was a Dutch painter, illustrator and writer, one of the most famous children's illustrators in the Netherlands. In 2004 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his "lasting contribution to children's literature". Velthuijs was born in The Hague on 22 May 1923. During World War II, he sometimes assisted Jan Gregoor in forging stamps for the Dutch resistance in identity papers of people in hiding. Velthuijs is known best for the Frog picture books (Dutch Wikipedia lists 21 titles). The first was Frog in Love, published by Andersen Press in 1989, which gained global recognition.
21. 2006 Wolf Erlbruch (Germany)
沃尔夫·埃布鲁赫
Wolf Erlbruch (born 1948) is a German illustrator and writer of children's books. He combines various techniques for the artwork in his books, including cutting and pasting, drawing, and painting. His style is sometimes surrealist and is widely copied inside and outside Germany. Some of his story books have challenging themes such as death and the meaning of life. They have won many awards, including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1993 and 2003. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator Erlbruch received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2006.[1][2] In 2017, he was the first German to win the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
22. 2008 Roberto Innocenti (Italy)
罗伯特·英诺森提
Roberto Innocenti, né à Bagno a Ripoli, près de Florence (Italie) le 16 février 1940, est un illustrateur italien. Après une enfance vécue dans le fascisme italien, il œuvre activement pour la mémoire, avec ses illustrations de Rose blanche et L'Étoile d'Erika. En 1986, il obtient la "Mention" Premio Grafico Fiera di Bologna per la Gioventù de la Foire du livre de jeunesse de Bologne1 (Italie) pour l'ouvrage jeunesse Rose blanche qu'il a illustré, sur un texte de Christophe Gallaz. Le Prix Hans Christian Andersen illustration lui a été décerné en 2008 pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.
23. 2010 Jutta Bauer (Germany)
尤塔·鲍尔
Jutta Bauer (born 9 January 1955) is a German writer and illustrator of children's books. Born in Volksdorf, Hamburg, she studied at the Technical College of Design in Hamburg from 1975 to 1981 Afterward she worked as a children's book illustrator and as cartoonist for the women's magazine Brigitte. For her "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2010.
24. 2012 Peter Sís (Czech Republic)
皮特·西斯
Peter Sís (born Petr Sís; May 11, 1949) is a Czech-born American illustrator and writer of children's books. As a cartoonist his editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012.
25. 2014 Roger Mello (Brazil)
罗杰·米罗
Roger Mello (born 20 November 1965) is a Brazilian children's book illustrator. He was the first artist from Latin America to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
26. 2016 Rotraut Susanne Berner (Germany)
罗特劳特·苏珊娜·贝尔纳
Rotraut Susanne Berner (born 26 August 1948, in Stuttgart) is a German graphic designer and illustrator. She illustrated The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. She is well known for a series of popular children's book, called Wimmelbilderbuch, which have attained a worldwide circulation of close to 500,000 copies in fifteen countries. Working as a freelance illustrator, she has focused on books for children and young adults, illustrating more than 80 such books and designing over 800 book covers. For her contribution as a children's illustrator Berner was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, 2004, and 2014, and she won it in 2016.
27. 2018 Igor Oleynikov (Russia)
欧尼可夫
Igor Oleynikov, né en 1953 à Lioubertsy1, est un écrivain et illustrateur russe, auteur de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse. Né près de Moscou, il fait des études d'ingénieur à l'université de Moscou1. Il travaille ensuite comme animateur pour les studios de cinéma Soyuzmultfilm Studio. Il est entre autres directeur artistique sur le long métrage Le Mystère de la troisième planète (1981). Il illustre ses propres récits, ainsi que les classiques signés Alexandre Pouchkine ou Nicolas Gogol. En 2018, il est lauréat du prestigieux Prix Hans Christian Andersen d'illustration.
28. 2020 Albertine (Switzerland)
艾伯汀
Albertine Zullo, professionally known simply as Albertine, (born 1967) is a Swiss illustrator who specializes in illustrating children's books, many of which have been published in English. Since 1996, she has taught screen printing at the Geneva University of Art and Design. Zullo was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustrator in 2020.
29. 2022 Suzy Lee (Republic of Korea)
Suzy Lee (born February 9, 1974) is a Korean picture book artist and illustrator. She is critically acclaimed as an artist who explores the pleasures and tensions that lie between reality and fantasy. She is also known for her remarkable achievements in the field of wordless picture books, or silent books. She gained global attention for her three works – Mirror (2003), Wave (2008), and Shadow (2010), known collectively as "The Border Trilogy" – using the center binding of the pages of a book as a means to create a narrative crossing the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Wave and Shadow were respectively named by the New York Times as Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008 and 2010. Wave was also awarded the gold medal for Original Art by the Society of Illustrators in 2008.