![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Oh my god, that’s amazing,” she said, adding, “I have to sit down I can’t believe that. Rosoff learned that she had won the prize was released on the award’s website. Rosoff will accept the prize at a ceremonyĪ short transcript of the phone call in which Ms. She died in 2002 and the award has been given every year since 2003. The award is named for the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, who created the Pippi Longstocking series. Her brave and humorous stories are one-of-a-kind. Rosoff for books that “speak to the emotions as well as the intellect,” adding that “she writes about the search for meaning and identity in a peculiarĪnd bizarre world. The citation issued by the prize jury honored Ms. Rosoff’s “Jonathan Unleashed,”Ībout a man’s relationship with his dogs, was published this year in some countries it is her first novel geared toward adults. Rosoff, an American young adult author based in England, won for her wide-ranging oeuvre, which includes coming-of-age stories like “ Picture Me Gone”Īnd “How I Live Now.” “How I Live Now,” a dystopian thriller about a girl whose brush with first love in the British countryside is interrupted by the outbreak of a world war, wasĪdapted into a 2013 movie starring Saoirse Ronan. LONDON - The author Meg Rosoff has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, a children’s book award that comes with a prize of 5 million Swedish krona, or about $613,000. 2016 by Meg Rosoff (Author) 161 ratings Kindle Edition 4.28 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 12.19 23 Used from 1.50 1 New from 12.19 2 Collectible from 14.75 Paperback 7.72 11 Used from 0.92 1 New from 7.72 1 Collectible from 2.74 MP3 CD 11.33 1 New from 11. Meg Rosoff Credit David Levenson/Getty Images ![]()
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