The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is the world's largest children's and youth literature award. It was instituted by the Government of Sweden in 2002 in honour of the Swedish children's books author Astrid Lindgren. The prize is awarded annually to an amount of five million SEK, which is about $ 717,100 or € 552,470. Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Classicism in Literature The Universal Library, by Carnegie Mellon University Project Gutenberg Online Library Abacci - Project Gutenberg texts matched with Amazon... Sweden is a constitutional monarchy with a representative democracy based on a parliamentary system. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Astrid Lindgren (November 14, 1907 _ January 28, 2002) was a Swedish childrens book author, whose many titles were translated into over 70 languages and published in more than 100 countries. ... This article is about the Swedish unit of currency. ...

Laureates

2005 - Philip Pullman (Great Britain), Ryôji Arai (Japan)

2004 - Lygia Bojunga (Brazil)

2003 - Maurice Sendak (United States), Christine Nöstlinger (Austria)

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See also

• Nobel Prize
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• Hans Christian Andersen Award
• Schock Prize
• Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs
• List of prizes, medals, and awards

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External link

• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award - Official site