Winners
There were two inaugural awards in 2003 and two again in 2005. Through 2012 there have been twelve recipients in ten annual cycles; ten people and two institutions.
- 2003: Maurice Sendak, United States
- 2003: Christine Nöstlinger, Austria
- 2004: Lygia Bojunga Nunes, Brazil
- 2005: Philip Pullman, United Kingdom
- 2005: Ryōji Arai, Japan
- 2006: Katherine Paterson, United States
- 2007: Banco del Libro, Venezuela
- 2008: Sonya Hartnett, United Kingdom
- 2009: Tamer Institute for Community Education, Palestine
- 2010: Kitty Crowther, Belgium
- 2011: Shaun Tan, Australia
- 2012: Guus Kuijer, Netherlands
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—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)