Hans Christian Andersen Award
The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are a pair of biennial literary awards by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for "lasting contribution to children's literature". The writing award was inaugurated in 1956, the illustration award in 1966. The former is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize for children's literature".
The awards are named after Hans Christian Andersen, a 19th-century Danish author of fairy tales, and winners receive gold medals from the hand of the Queen of Denmark at the biennial IBBY Congress. The medal obverse features a bust of Andersen (see image).
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