Wolf Erlbruch. Award Laureate 2017 1
Erlbruch can also achieve this emphasis by placin
g his actors against pure white or lightly tinted pages, as in La grande question. Many of his books have in fact been adapted for the theatre, including Ente, Tod und Tulpe, Das Bärenwunder (1992, The Miracle of the Bears), and Die fürchterlichen Fünf, to name a few. A Celebrated Artist Wolf Erlbruch’s compelling and innovative visual language is an inspiration to his colleagues and echoes in the work of contemporary illustrators around the world. He has received a great number of prizes and awards. In 2006 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award from IBBY International. He was awarded the Deutscher Jugendlitteraturpreis in 1993 for Das Bärenwunder and again in 2003 for his complete works. He has received two Bologna Ragazzi Awards, one in 2001 for Das Neue ABC-Buch (2000) and one in 2004 for La grande question. The 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate has also won recognition for his deliberate and expert attention to the form of his books, receiving the City of Leipzig’s Gutenberg Prize in 2003 for his achievements in the graphic arts.