IBBY announces jury for 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award

Awards to be announced on 6 March 2023 at Bologna Children’s Book Fair

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The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has announced a 10-member jury for the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award. IBBY is a non-profit organization that represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together.

The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international distinction in the field of books for young people. Given every other year by IBBY, the awards recognize lifelong achievements and are given to a writer and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important and lasting contribution to children’s and youth literature.

The following 10 children’s book specialists were selected by the IBBY executive committee to serve as members of the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury:

Evelyn Arizpe from Mexico/UK is a professor and researcher in children’s literature at the University of Glasgow.

Brenda Dales from the USA is an independent scholar and former assistant teaching professor in the Education Faculty at Miami University, Ohio.

Sabine Fuchs from Austria is a retired professor of children’s literature and didactics at the University College of Teacher Education, Styria.

Diana Laura Kovach from Argentina is a language and literature teacher in secondary schools and at the Teachers’ Training Institute, Buenos Aires.

Shereen Kreidieh from Lebanon is a publisher and part-time teacher at Haigazian University, Beirut.

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer from Germany is a professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen.

Jaana Pesonen from Finland is a university lecturer in the Education Department of the University of Helsinki and researcher in children’s literature.

Tan Fengxia from China is a professor in the School of Literature at the Nanjing Normal University.

Pavle Učakar from Slovenia is a former art director of Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House, Ljubljana.

Morgane Vasta from France is a mediator specializing in children’s literature and a lecturer on novels for children and teenagers at the University of Sorbonne Paris Nord.

The jury will work under the guidance of president Anastasia Arkhipova. IBBY executive director Carolina Ballester is an ex officio jury member.

The 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award nominees will be announced on 6 March 2023 at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India

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The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry. While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.

The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.

Ultimately digital print and other digital channels will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.

Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.

Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.

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