Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2010 - Contenders

Always an event of importance in Literary Award World, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards announced their 2010 contenders a few months back. Posted here by request. Tragic maintains a summary page at Book Awards Online where there are some slideshows displaying the cover art from winning authors and illustrators over the years. Delicious.

Presented every two years by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important and lasting contribution to children's literature. IBBY National Sections from 33 countries have made their selections, submitting the following 29 authors and 27 illustrators as candidates for the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Awards:

Country	Author	Illustrator
Argentina	Liliana Bodoc	Luis Scafati
Austria	Heinz Janisch	Linda Wolfsgruber
Belgium	Pierre Coran	Carll Cneut
Brazil	Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós	Roger Mello
Canada	Brian Doyle	Marie-Louise Gay
China	Liu Xianping
Croatia		Svjetlan Junakóvić
Cyprus	Maria Pyliotou
Czech Republic	Pavel Šrut	Jiří Šalamoun
Denmark	Louis Jensen	Lilian Brøgger
Finland	Hannu Mäkelä	Salla Savolainen
France	Jean-Claude Mourlevat	Grégoire Solotareff
Germany	Peter Härtling	Jutta Bauer
Greece	Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou	Diatsenta Parissi
Iran	Ahmad Reza Ahmadi
Ireland	Eoin Colfer	P.J. Lynch
Japan	Shuntaro Tanikawa	Akiko Hayashi
Lithuania		Kęstutis Kasparavičius
Mexico	Alberto Blanco	Fabricio Vanden Broeck
Mongolia	Dashdondog Jamba
Netherlands	Peter van Gestel	Harrie Geelen
Norway	Bjørn Sortland	Thore Hansen
Russia		Nickolay Popov
Serbia	Zoran Božović
Slovak Republic	Ján Uličiansky	Peter Uchnár
Slovenia	Tone Pavček	Ančka Gošnik Godec
Spain	Jordi Sierra i Fabra	Xan López Domínguez
Sweden	Lennart Hellsing	Anna-Clara Tidholm
Switzerland		Etienne Delessert
Turkey	Muzaffer İzgü	Can Göknil
Uganda	Evangeline Ledi Barongo
United Kingdom	David Almond	Michael Foreman
USA	Walter Dean Myers	Eric Carle

The elected Chair of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury, Zohreh Ghaeni (Iran) and Jury members from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America, will meet in March 2010 to select from among these 56 nominations the winners of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Awards.

The results will be made public at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, Monday, 22 March 2010 and the Awards will be presented to the winners at the 32nd IBBY Congress in Santiago de Compostela, Spain on 11 September 2010