Silver feather
The Silver Feather is the youth book award of the German Medical Association eV (DÄB). The Silver Feather has been awarded every two years by the German Medical Association since 1974. With this award, the German Medical Association honors outstanding representations in children's and youth literature that deal with the topic of health and illness. The prize can be awarded to a picture book, a narrative book or a non-fiction book and is endowed with 2000 euros (as of 2019).
Prize winners
- 2019: Gro Dahle and Svein Nyhus as well as Christel Hildebrandt (translator) for Bösemann
- 2017: Anna Woltz (author) and Andrea Kluitmann (translator) for plaster or How I repaired the world in a single day
- 2015: Andreas Steinhöfel for Anders
- 2013: You don't see Susan Kreller for elephants
- 2011: Martin Baltscheit for The Story of the Fox Who Lost His Mind
- 2007: Guus Kuijer for A Heavenly Place
- 2005: Michael Dudok de Wit for his picture book Father and Daughter
- 2003: Helene Kynast for Sunshine
- 2001: Stefan Casta for The Mary Lou case
- 1999: Hermann Schulz for Auf dem Strom
- 1989: Renate Welsh for Drachenflügel and the picture book Stefan
- 1984: Ursula Fuchs for Wiebke and Paul
- 1982: Katrin Arnold / Renate Seelig for Anna participates
- 1980: Irina Korschunow for The thing with Christoph
- 1978: Barbara Bronnen for How my child got me
- 1976: Edi Lanners / Noldi Lutz for the photo picture book Meine Augen