Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration 1966-2006
“Every other year IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) presents the Hans Christian Andersen Awards to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children’s literature.
The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children’s books. Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is the Patron of the Andersen Awards.
The nominations are made by the National Sections of IBBY and the recipients are selected by a distinguished international jury of children’s literature specialists. ”
| Year | Illustrator | |
| 2006 | Wolf Erlbruch (Germany) | |
| 2004 | Max Velthuijs (The Netherlands) | |
| 2002 | Quentin Blake (UK) | |
| 2000 | Anthony Browne (UK) | |
| 1998 | Tomi Ungerer (France) | |
| 1996 | Klaus Ensikat (Germany) | |
| 1994 | Jorg Muller (Switzerland) | |
| 1992 | Kveta Pacovska (Czech Republic) | |
| 1990 | Lisbeth Zwerger (Austria) | |
| 1988 | Dusan Kallay (Czechoslovakia) | |
| 1986 | Robert Ingpen (Australia) | |
| 1984 | Mitsumasa Anno (Japan) | |
| 1982 | Zbigniew Rychlicki (Poland) | |
| 1980 | Suekichi Akaba (Japan) | |
| 1978 | Svend Otto S. (Denmark) | |
| 1976 | Tatjana Mawrina (USSR) | |
| 1974 | Farshid Mesghali (Iran) | |
| 1972 | Ib Spang Olsen (Denmark) | |
| 1970 | Maurice Sendak (USA) | |
| 1968 | Jin Tmka (Czechoslovakia) | |
| Alois Carigiet (Switzerland) | ||
