Jacqueline Woodson, laureate 2018 1
Previous laureates WOLF ERLBRUCH, 2017 Illustrato
r, Germany With humour and warmth deeply rooted in humanist ideals, his work presents the universe on our scale. He is a master of the illustrator’s art who honours tradition whilst opening new creative doors. MEG ROSOFF, 2016 Author, United Kingdom/US In sparkling prose, she writes about the search for meaning and identity in a peculiar and bizarre world. Her brave and humorous stories are one-of-a-kind. She leaves no reader unmoved. PRAESA, 2015 Promoter of reading, South Africa With the joy of reading as its compass point, PRAESA opens new routes into the world of books and literature for young readers in South Africa. Through innovative reading and storytelling projects, PRAESA brings people together and brings literature in multiple languages alive. BARBRO LINDGREN, 2014 Author, Sweden Using adventurous language and rich psychological nuance, she presents to us both playful shenanigans and moments of bright joy, the inscrutable nature of life and the nearness of death. ISOL, 2013 Illustrator and author, Argentina Isol creates picturebooks from the eye level of the child. Her pictures vibrate with energy and explosive emotions. With a restrained palette and ever-innovative pictorial solutions, she shifts ingrained perspectives and pushes the boundaries of the picturebook medium. GUUS KUIJER, 2012 Author, The Netherlands The uncompromising perspective of the child is always present in Guus Kuijer’s works, but at the same time, through his young protagonists, he paints a perceptive picture of the adult world. SHAUN TAN, 2011 Illustrator and author, Australia Shaun Tan is a masterly visual storyteller, pointing the way ahead to new possibilities for picture books. His pictorial worlds constitute a separate universe where nothing is self-evident and anything is possible. KITTY CROWTHER, 2010 Illustrator and author, Belgium Kitty Crowther is the master of line but also of atmosphere. She maintains the tradition of the picture book while transforming and renewing it. In her world, the door between imagination and reality is wide open.