Congratulations to David Almond who has been announced as the winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award!
The award is considered as the most prestigious in international children's literature and is given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made lasting contributions to children's literature.
David was selected from 28 authors for the award. The four other finalists were:
Ahmad Reza Ahmadi from Iran
Bartolomeu Campos de Queiros from Brazil
Lennart Hellsing from Sweden
Louis Jensen from Denmark