FOLLOWING his recent Oscar success Australian illustrator and author Shaun Tan has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in Sweden - the largest children's literature award.
The award, which amounts to 5 million krona ($764,6000), was announced in Stockholm tonight.
His award citation read: "Shaun Tan has reinvented the picture book by creating visually spectacular pictorial narratives with a constant human presence."
In February Tan won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for his 15-minute film The Lost Thing.
And report in The Guardian.
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Hurray. 'That looks like an object from a Shaun Tan book,' I told a man in an Aro Valley garage who was renovating an ancient bike pannier (various shades of brown, and many straps and shadows). He didn't know who I meant. Hopefully this award will bring Tan a bigger audience.
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