Banco del Libro awarded Astrid Lindgren prize

20 March 2007 Books+Publishing

The Venezuelan non-profit institution Banco del Libro is the winner of this year's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award--the world's largest prize for children's and young people's literature worth five million Swedish kronor (A$820,000). Banco del Libro originated as a centre for the exchange of textbooks and has since branched out to...