STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Belgian illustrator and bard Kitty Crowther won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children"s novel Wednesday for her capability to demonstrate low humanism in all her work.
Crowther, 39, has authored some-more than thirty titles, majority that were initial published in Belgium and France, the esteem jury said.
The annual 5 million kronor ($620,000) endowment is declared after late Swedish bard Astrid Lindgren, author of the Pippi Longstocking book series. It was determined by the Swedish supervision in 2002 and will be handed out by Princess Madeleine in a rite Jun 1.
Crowther"s principal functions are design books, together with "L"enfant racine" ("The Root Child") and "La visite de Petite Mort" ("The Visit of Little Death").
"She maintains the convention of the design book whilst transforming and renewing it," the jury pronounced in the citation. "In her deeply felt consolation with people in difficulty, she shows ways in that debility can be incited in to strength. Humanism and magnetism interfuse and harmonize her artistry."
In an talk with the Associated Press, Crowther pronounced she had found out she had won the endowment at a book satisfactory in Bologna, Italy.
"It"s fantastic," she pronounced by phone, adding she had grown up celebration of the mass Lindgren"s books.
Jury Chairman Larry Lempert called her "a master author," applauding her approach of mixing content with illustrations to reach out to children, generally those experiencing hardship.
"She shows good apply oneself for children. She has a approach of reaching out to them," he said. "She provides await for most by the sort of subjects she chooses to cover."
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