{"id":158560,"date":"2026-01-31T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=158560"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:46:40","slug":"2026-hans-christian-andersen-award-shortlist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=158560","title":{"rendered":"2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award Shortlist Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Board on Books for Young People has announced the shortlist for the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. Presented every two years, the awards honor international authors and illustrators for their contributions to children\u2019s literature, and are the highest international recognition given to creators in the field.<br \/>\n<strong>Authors:<\/strong><br \/>\nAhmad Akbarpour from Iran<br \/>\nMar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Ferrada from Chile<br \/>\nTimoth\u00e9e de Fombelle from France<br \/>\nLee Geum-yi from the Republic of Korea<br \/>\nPam Mu\u00f1oz Ryan from the United States<br \/>\nMichael Rosen from the United Kingdom<br \/>\n<strong>Illustrators:<\/strong><br \/>\nBeatrice Alemagna from Italy<br \/>\nLinda Bondestam from Finland<br \/>\nCai Gao from China<br \/>\nGundega Muzikante from Latvia<br \/>\nWalid Taher from Egypt<br \/>\nMar\u00eda Wernicke from Argentina<br \/>\nThe shortlisted authors and illustrators were chosen from a list of 78 nominations from 44 countries, on a 10-member jury led by Shereen Kreidieh, founder of Arabic children\u2019s publishing house Dar Asala and president of the Lebanese Board of Books for Young People.<br \/>\nThe two winners will be announced at the Bologna Children\u2019s Book Fair on April 13. The medals will be presented at the 40th IBBY World Congress, to be held August 6\u20139 in Ottawa, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Board on Books for Young People has announced the shortlist for the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. Presented every two years, the awards honor international authors and illustrators for their contributions to children\u2019s literature, and are the highest international recognition given to creators in the field. Authors: Ahmad Akbarpour from Iran Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158561,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158560\/revisions\/158561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}