Under the artistic leadership of Ine Marit Torsvik Bertelsen, the biannual children’s literature conference in Stavanger is dubbed Maktens Pluttifikasjon and aims to raise questions of power, transition and social class in the world of children’s literature.
The conference program features researchers, authors, illustrators and promoters of reading, mostly from Scandivia, but also from other parts of the world.
Highlights in the program include:
- This year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Kitty Crowther will present her work with special focus on her latest book Le petit homme et Dieu.
- Professor Maria Nikolajeva, former member of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award jury, will speak under the title Knowledge is power.
- Author Stefan Casta, member of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award jury, will speak about The powerlessness of the Author.
- Researcher Lena Kåreland will speak about the Different disguises of power in Swedish young adult literature.
- Illustrators Svein Nyhus (Norway) and Carll Cneut (Belgium), both nominated to the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, will present their work.
The conference will aslo feature interesting debates, one of which will cover how Norwegian children’s literature is received and reviewed in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In this debate the translator Gabriele Haefs, who held a very inspirational acceptance speach as she received the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis 2009, will participate.
Maktens Pluttifikasjon takes place 7-9 February. Here’s where you sign up!
Tags: Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Carll Cneut, Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis, Gabriele Haefs, Kitty Crowther, Lena Kåreland, Maktens Pluttifikasjon, Maria Nikolajeva, Stavanger, stefan casta, Svein Nyhus
January 18, 2011 at 8:30 am |
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