2010 HCA Award Candidates, May 2009
May 2009
IBBY Announces Nominees for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2010
The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are presented every two years by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important and lasting contribution to children's literature. IBBY National Sections from 32 countries have made their selections, submitting the following 28 authors and 27 illustrators as candidates for the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Awards:
| Country | Author | Illustrator |
| Argentina | Liliana Bodoc | Luis Scafati |
| Austria | Heinz Janisch | Linda Wolfsgruber |
| Belgium | Pierre Coran | Carll Cneut |
| Brazil | Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós | Roger Mello |
| Canada | Brian Doyle | Marie-Louise Gay |
| China | Liu Xianping | |
| Croatia | Svjetlan Junakóvić | |
| Cyprus | Maria Pyliotou | |
| Czech Republic | Pavel Šrut | Jiří Šalamoun |
| Denmark | Louis Jensen | Lilian Brøgger |
| Finland | Hannu Mäkelä | Salla Savolainen |
| France | Jean-Claude Mourlevat | Grégoire Solotareff |
| Germany | Peter Härtling | Jutta Bauer |
| Greece | Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou | Diatsenta Parissi |
| Iran | Ahmad Reza Ahmadi | |
| Ireland | Eoin Colfer | P.J. Lynch |
| Japan | Shuntaro Tanikawa | Akiko Hayashi |
| Lithuania | Kęstutis Kasparavičius | |
| Mexico | Alberto Blanco | Fabricio Vanden Broeck |
| Mongolia | Dashdondog Jamba | |
| Netherlands | Peter van Gestel | Harrie Geelen |
| Norway | Bjørn Sortland | Thore Hansen |
| Russia | Nickolay Popov | |
| Slovak Republic | Ján Uličiansky | Peter Uchnár |
| Slovenia | Tone Pavček | Ančka Gošnik Godec |
| Spain | Jordi Sierra i Fabra | Xan López Domínguez |
| Sweden | Lennart Hellsing | Anna-Clara Tidholm |
| Switzerland | Etienne Delessert | |
| Turkey | Muzaffer İzgü | Can Göknil |
| Uganda | Evangeline Ledi Barongo | |
| United Kingdom | David Almond | Michael Foreman |
| USA | Walter Dean Myers | Eric Carle |
The elected Chair of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury, Zohreh Ghaeni (Iran) and Jury members from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America, will meet in March 2010 to select from among these 56 nominations the winners of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Awards.
The results will be made public at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, Monday, 22 March 2010 and the Awards will be presented to the winners at the 32nd IBBY Congress in Santiago de Compostela, Spain on 11 September 2010.
It is with regret that we have to announce that the Serbian candidate for writing, Zoran Bozovic, had to withdraw his candidacy in August 2009.