Kitty Crowther

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Kitty Crowther
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Born4 April 1970
Uccle, Belgium
OccupationIllustrator and writer of children's books
NationalityBelgian
Alma mater Institut Saint-Luc
Notable awards1997 "Vlag en Wimpel"
2003 Silver Pencil
2005 Silver Pencil
2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
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Kitty Crowther (born 4 April 1970) is a Belgian illustrator and writer of children's books. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature. [1] [2] [3]

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Biography

Kitty Crowther is the Belgian [3] daughter of a British father and a Swedish mother. She was born and grew up in Uccle, part of Brussels, in Belgium. She and her husband now live in Blanmont with their two sons. She studied Graphic Arts at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. [4] She works mainly in French, occasionally in Dutch, and has as of 2010 created some 35 books of her own, and has illustrated books of others as well, e.g. work by Carl Norac, Bart Moeyaert and Toon Tellegen. [5]

She made her debut in 1994 with Mon royaume (My kingdom). The jury of the Gouden Griffel awarded her a "Vlag en Wimpel" in 1997 for the illustrated book Mon ami Jim.

Further recognition followed in 2003 and 2005, when she received the Silver Pencil for In het pikkedonker (In the pitch dark) and Kleine Dood en het meisje (Little Death and the girl). In 2010 she received the Astrid Lindgren Award, administered by the Swedish Arts Council. In the jury's citation she was described as "the master of line but also of atmosphere". [6]

Works

Crowther receives the Lindgren Award from Queen Silvia of Sweden Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2010-65.jpg
Crowther receives the Lindgren Award from Queen Silvia of Sweden

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "2010: Kitty Crowther: Master of Line" Archived 19 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine . The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "Brusselse wint 'Nobelprijs voor kinderliteratuur'" (in Dutch). De Standaard. 24 March 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Belgian author wins Astrid Lindgren prize". AFP. 24 March 2010. Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  4. ↑ Mercier, Jacques (2006). Belges en France (in French). Lannoo. p. 298. ISBN   978-2-87386-478-1 . Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  5. ↑ Myriam Deru et Mireille Moureau, « Analyse de l'album Mon royaume », dossier « Voyage au royaume de Kitty Crowther », dossier de la revue Cahiers du CLPCF No. 2, 2001 Archived 11 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine , p. 48-51.
  6. ↑ "Kitty Crowther reçoit le prix Astrid Lindgren ce soir à Stockholm". ActuaLitté.com (in French). Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  7. ↑ Crowther, Kitty (2018). Stories of the Night. Gecko Press. ISBN   9781776571970 . Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  8. ↑ "The Runaways | Children's Fiction | Gecko Press". geckopress.com. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "Kitty Crowther" (in Dutch). Querido. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2010.

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