Branford Boase Award
The Branford Boase Award is a British literary prize which is given annually in July to the author of an outstanding, first youth book by this author. The prize is endowed with £ 1,000 . In addition, the author and publisher of the winning book will receive a black box with the silver-plated logo of the competition.
background
The award tries to honor the memory of the children's book author Henrietta Branford and the production manager of the independent children's and youth book publisher Walker Books , Wendy Boase , who had worked closely together for many years and finally both died in 1999 of cancer in quick succession. The foundation of the award under this name was a joint idea of Julia Eccleshare and Anne Marley. The prize is accompanied by the annual Henrietta Branford Writing Competition for young authors under the age of 19.
The jury includes Julia Eccleshare, the Guardian 's children's book editor and literary critic, the librarian Tricia Adams, the freelance editor Helen Boyle and the last winner of the Branford Boase Awards.
The prize and the junior seminar are financially supported by the following organizations and publishing houses: National Literacy Trust, Arts Council of England , Walker Books, David Fickling Books, CollinsChildren's Books, Random House Children's Books , Transworld Children's Books, Hodder Children's Books, Puffin , Egmont Children's Books, Anderson Press, Orchard Books, Macmillan Children's Books , A&C Black, Bloomsbury Children's Books , Gallimard Jeunesse , Simon and Shuster Children's Books , Piccadilly Press, Old Possum's Practical Trust, Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation, and BBA Founding Friends.
While 20 titles were submitted to the first competition, in 2010 there were already 60 candidates.
Award winners
The previous winners are:
- 2000: Katherine Roberts - Song Quest
- 2001: Marcus Sedgwick - Floodland
- 2002: Sally Prue - Cold Tom
- 2003: Kevin Brooks - Martyn Pig (German Martyn Pig , 2004)
- 2004: Mal Peet - Keeper (German Keeper , 2006)
- 2005: Meg Rosoff - How I live now (dt. So I now live , 2005)
- 2006: Frances Hardinge - Fly by night (Eng. The mistress of words , 2006)
- 2007: Siobhan Dowd - A swift, pure cry (Eng. Ein pure Schrei , 2006)
- 2008: Jenny Downham - Before I Die (Eng. Before I die , 2008)
- 2009: Bridget Collins - The Traitor Game
- 2010: Lucy Christopher - Stolen (Eng. I wish I could hate you , 2011)
- 2011: Jason Wallace - Out of Shadows
- 2012: Annabel Pitcher - My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
- 2013: Dave Shelton - A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
- 2014: CJ Flood - Infinite Sky
- 2015: Rosie Powell - Leopold Blue
- 2016: Horatio Clare - Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot
- 2017: MG Leonard - Beetle Boy
- 2018: Mitch Johnson - Kick
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Financial Support ( Memento of October 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Alison Flood: Brandford Boase award goes to My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece. In: The Guardian . July 5, 2012, accessed July 16, 2012 .