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American Writer Meg Rosoff receives her Astrid Lindgren Award

By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

Stockholm, May 30(Greenpost)–American Writer Meg Rosoff on Monday received her Astrid Lingren Award from the hands of Alice Bah Kuhnke, Minister for Culture and Democracy.

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Meg Rosoff, Alice Bah Kuhnke ,         Photo by Xuefei Chen Axelsson

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Meg was interviewed by the host.   Photo by Xuefei Chen Axelsson.

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The host(right ) wears a pair of red stockings to imitate Pippi, a charactor created by Astrid Lindgren. Pippi is always against the traditional thinking. As a girl, she is strong enough to deal with thieves and she has never worried about money. She is never afraid and she has a lot of ideas and innovations.

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Cultural Minister Alice Bah spoke at the awarding ceremony.

 

Meg Rosoff wins 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

STOCKHOLM, April. 6(Greenpost)–Author Meg Rosoff has won 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

Rosoff was born in in Boston, United States in 1956. She has lived and worked in London for many years. The jury’s citation reads:

Meg Rosoff’s young adult novels speak to the emotions as well as the intellect. In sparkling prose, she writes about the search for meaning and identity in a peculiar and bizarre world. Her brave and humorous stories are one-of-a-kind. She leaves no reader unmoved.

Meg Rosoff made her authorial debut in 2004 with the dystopian YA novel How I Live now, which became an immediate success. Since then she has written six more YA novels, several picture books, and a novel for adults. Her collected body of work is richly varied and profoundly affecting for readers of all ages.

Rosoff writes about young people in the borderlands between childhood and adult life who face difficult trials in their quests to find themselves. At times they are pushed to the brink of the unbearable and beyond. Her protagonists battle questions of identity and sexuality and are thrown involuntarily into chaotic situations. Like Astrid Lindgren, Rosoff empathizes completely with young people and is utterly loyal to them. The adult world, when it appears, remains on the periphery. She uses concrete, vibrant language, whether she is describing a landscape, a piece of clothing, or the groceries in the pantry. She infuses darkness with humor to produce stylistic masterpieces.

In What I was (2007), questions of body, identity, and gender, the confusions of falling in love, and the desire and sexuality of the young all come to a head as the narrator sets out to find himself and choose a path different from the one laid out for him by the adult world.

At times, as in Just in Case (2006), reality and fantasy almost merge, so that we are hard-pressed to say what is ”really” happening. In There is no Dog (2011), things get truly crazy when a hormonal teen is given the job of the great Creator.

Meg Rosoff is the recipient of numerous prizes, including Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, Carnegie Medal and Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages and she became Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award will be presented in a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on May 30, 2016.