The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award () is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honour the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002). The prize is five million SEK, making it the richest award in children's literature and one of the richest literary prizes in the world.

The Lindgren Award annually recognises one or more living people and extant institutions (twelve in the first ten years) – people for their career contributions and institutions for their long-term sustainable work. Specifically they should be "authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and promoters of reading" whose "work is of the highest quality, and in the spirit of Astrid Lindgren."

Officially it is called "An award by the Swedish people to the world".

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| rowspan="2" |2003

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| Austria

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| United States

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|2004

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| Brazil

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| rowspan="2" |2005

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| Japan

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| United Kingdom

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|2006

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| United States

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|2007

| Banco del Libro

| Venezuela

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|2008

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| Australia

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|2009

| Tamer Institute for Community Education

| Palestine

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|2010

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| Belgium

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|2011

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| Australia

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|2012

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| Netherlands

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|2013

| Isol

| Argentina

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|2014

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| Sweden

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|2015

| Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA)

|South Africa

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|2016

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| United States/United Kingdom

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|2017

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| Germany

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|2018

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| United States

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|2019

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| Belgium

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|2020

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| South Korea

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|2021

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| France

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|2022

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| Sweden

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|2023

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| United States

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|2024

|Indigenous Literacy Foundation

|Australia

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|2025

|Marion Brunet

|France

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|2026

|Jon Klassen

|Canada

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Five of the Lindgren Award winners have also, and much earlier, won the older, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for their lifetime contributions to children's literature: Sendak and Erlbruch as illustrators; Nöstlinger, Nunes, and Paterson as authors. Lindgren herself won the Andersen Award in 1958. In 2020, Woodson also won the Andersen Award as an author, two years after winning the Lindgren Award.

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Further reading

  • John A. Sellars (25 March 2014). "Barbro Lindgren Wins 2014 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award" . Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
  • The American author Jacqueline Woodson is the laureate of Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2018. ALMA. Retrieved 2018-03-27.

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