Iranian Candidates’ for The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Touran Mirhadi from Children’s Book Council for her 40 years experience and efforts for reading promotion and Ali Akbar Sadeghi from Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon Parvaresh) for his great works in the field of illustration have been nominated for receiving The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.Astrid Lindgren is Sweden’s favourite author and one of the world’s most popular. She passed away in 2002 at the age of 94, but her stories will live forever. To honour her memory and promote children’s and youth literature around the world, the Swedish government (The Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs )has founded an international prize in her name: The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
The award, of five million Swedish crowns(six hundred fifty thousand dollars), is the world’s largest for children’s and youth literature, and the second-largest literature prize in the world
