Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury 2006
Jeff Garrett, Jury president, announced the following members of the Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury 2006:• Vasja Cerar, editor of teenage fiction at Mladinska Knjiga in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Isabelle Nieres-Chevrel, professor of general and comparative literatures the University of Rennes II, France.
• Lona Gericke, head of the children’s library at Bellville Public Library, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Grazia Gotti, co-founder of Giannino Stoppani cultural cooperative and children’s bookshop in Bologna, Italy.
• Maija Korhonen, head of children’s department at Kallio Branch Library, Helsinki, Finland.
• Angela Lebedeva , senior lecturer in children’s literature at the Sholohov University of Education in Moscow, Russia.
• Bill Nagelkerke , coordinator of children’s and young adult service at Christchurch City Library, New Zealand.
• Parnaz Nayeri, children’s literature specialist and translator in Tehran, Iran
• Maria Cecilia Silva-Diaz of Caracas, Venezuela, currently editor at Ediciones Ekare in Barcelona.
• Junko Yokota, professor of reading, language arts and children’s literature at National Louis University, Chicago, USA.
The Jury will meet 24-25 March 2006, prior to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. The announcement of the results will be made at the IBBY Press Conference on the firs day of the book fair: Monday 27 March 2006, and the Awards will be presented to the winners during the opening ceremony of the 30th IBBY congress in Beijing on Wednesday, 20 September 2006.
