2012 HCAA Jury, May 2011

PRESS RELEASE 1/2010 - 2012

Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury 2012

We are proud to announce the 2012 Jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The ten distinguished members from across the globe join Jury President María Jesús Gil (Madrid, Spain) to select the winners of the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. 

Former IBBY Vice President Elda Nogueira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and IBBY Executive Director Liz Page are ex officio Jury members. The Jury President will guide the process and preside at the jury meeting in March 2012.

The 2012 Jury, selected by IBBY’s Executive Committee from nominations made by its national sections, comprises the following ten members:

• Anastasia Arkhipova Illustrator, chair of the board of the Association of Moscow Book Illustrators and Designers, Moscow, Russia.
• Françoise Ballanger Former manager of the publishing department of La Joie par les livres, Paris, France.
• Ernest Bond Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature at Salisbury University, Maryland, USA.
• Sabine Fuchs University lecturer in children's literature, and secondary school teacher, Graz, Austria.
• Ayfer Gürdal Ünal Writer and critic, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Jan Hansson Director of the Swedish Institute for Children's Books, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Eva Kaliskami Translator and teacher, Athens, Greece.
• Nora Lía Sormani Writer and journalist, critic and researcher, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Sahar Tarhandeh Independent researcher in children's literature, freelance graphic designer and art director, Tehran, Iran.
• Regina Zilberman Children's literature specialist and former director of the Instituto Estadual do Livro, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The candidates for the 2012 Awards will be made public shortly and the shortlist will be disseminated immediately following the Jury meeting. Winners will be announced at the IBBY Press Conference at the Bologna Children's Book Fair on Monday, 19 March 2012.