Icelandic authors Thórarinn Leifsson and Bergrún Íris Sævarsdóttir nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize 2015
The Adjudication Committee presented the 14 nominated works for the newly established Children and Young People's Literature Prize at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
The Icelandic works nominated are My Friend The Wind by Bergrún Íris Sævarsdóttir and The Man Who Hated Children by Thórarinn Leifsson.
The Adjudication Committee for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize has now announced the nominations for the prize in 2015. The Icelandic works nominated are Vinur minn, vindurinn / My Friend The Wind by Bergrún Íris Sævarsdóttir and Maðurinn sem hataði börn / The Man Who Hated Children by Thórarinn Leifsson.
The Adjudication Committee presented the 14 nominated works for the newly established Children and Young People's Literature Prize at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. The prize, which the Nordic Council in partnership with the Nordic ministers of culture, decided to establish two years ago, is the fifth in the series of prestigious Nordic Council prizes.
What the committee says about the Icelandic books nominated:
The Man Who Hated Children by Thórarinn Leifsson:
„The book's protagonist is Sylvek Kaminski Arias, a Spanish immigrant of Polish origin who lives in Reykjavik with his grandmother. His mother is dead, and as the story begins we find out that his sister has disappeared and that they're just about to spend the last euro that they brought with them from Barcelona two years before. The family itself feeds the novel with material, but this is just the tip of the iceberg, for the most heinous of murderers has the city trembling in fear. The new tenant in Sylvek's home turns out to hate children and Sylvek is convinced that he's the murderer. The story that follows is thrilling and exciting, and moves in fantastic fashion down into Reykjavik's underworld.“ You can read more about the book here.
The following works are nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize 2015:
Denmark
Mette Hegnhøj: Ella er mit navn vil du købe det? Æske med løsblade og poetsne
Notes, poetry, and script illustrations, Jensen & Dalgaard, 2014.
Jesper Wung-Sung: Ud med Knud
Novel, Forlaget Høst & Søn, 2014.
The Sami language area
Veikko Holmberg and Sissel Horndal (ill.): Durrebjørnen og skuterløypa
Novel, Davvi Girji, 2014
Finland
Maria Turtschaninoff: Maresi. Krönikor från Röda klostret
Novel, Schildts & Söderströms, 2014
Marjatta Levanto and Julia Vuori (ill.): Leonardo oikealta vasemmalle
Non-fiction, Teos, 2014
Faroe Islands
Elin á Rógvi and Marjun Reginsdóttir (ill.): Og mamma!
Novel, Bókadeildin, 2014.
Greenland
Naja Rosing-Asvid: Aqipi – til sommerfest
Novel, Milik, 2014
Iceland
Þórarinn Leifsson: Maðurinn sem hataði börn
Novel, Mál og menning, 2014
Bergrún Íris Sævarsdóttir: Vinur minn, vindurinn
Novel, Töfraland, 2014
Norway
Geir Gulliksen and Anna Fiske (Ill.): Joel og Io. En kjærlighetshistorie
Novel, Aschehoug, 2014
Simon Stranger: De som ikke finnes
Youth novel, Cappelen Damm, 2014
Sweden
Frida Nilsson: Jagger, Jagger
Novel, Natur & Kultur, 2013
Jakob Wegelius: Mördarens apa
Novel, Bonnier Carlsen, 2014
Åland
Malin Klingenberg: Alberta Ensten och uppfinnarkungen
Novel, Fontana Media, 2014
The winner will be selected by the Adjudication Committee of the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize and published during the Nordic Council Prize Award Ceremony in Reykjavik on 27 October. The prize amount is DKK 350,000.