The award winning authors David Almond, and author/illustrator Michael Foreman have been nominated for the top prize in international children's literature. The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are given biennially to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's literature. The award is given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) and David Almond and Michael Foreman have been nominated by the British Section.
The announcement of the winners will be made at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in March 2010 and the Awards will be presented
later that year at the IBBY World Congress in Santiago de Compostela.
David Almond came to prominence with the publication of "Skellig"(1998) which became a best selling book and later a play,
an opera and most recently a film. Many of his books and short stories are aimed at older children.
Michael Foreman has written and illustrated more than 50 of his own books, in addition to illustrating more than 150 books by other
writers.
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