Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing 1956-2006
“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 | Author | |
| 2006 | Margaret Mahy (New Zealand) | |
| 2004 | Martin Waddell (Ireland) | |
| 2002 | Aidan Chambers (UK) | |
| 2000 | Ana Maria Machado (Brazil) | |
| 1998 | Katherine Paterson (USA) | |
| 1996 | Uri Orlev (Israel) | |
| 1994 | Michio Mado (Japan) | |
| 1992 | Virginia Hamilton (USA) | |
| 1990 | Tomod Haugen (Norway) | |
| 1988 | Annie M. G. Schmidt (Netherlands) | |
| 1986 | Patricia Wrightson (Australia) | |
| 1984 | Christine Nostlinger (Austria) | |
| 1982 | Lygia Bojunga Nunes (Brazil) | |
| 1980 | Bohumil Riha (Czechoslovakia) | |
| 1978 | Paula Fox (USA) | |
| 1976 | Cecil Bodker (Denmark) | |
| 1974 | Maria Gripe (Sweden) | |
| 1972 | Scott O’Dell (USA) | |
| 1970 | Giannai Rodan (Italy) | |
| 1968 | James Kruss | |
| Jose Mria Sanchez-Silva (Spain) | ||
| 1966 | Tove Jansson (Finland) | |
| 1964 | Rene Guillot (France) | |
| 1962 | Meindert DeJong (USA) | |
| 1960 | Erich Kastner (Germany) | |
| 1958 | Astrid Lindgren (Sweden) | |
| 1956 | Eleanor Farjeon (UK) |
