Nominations for the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize 2015
Denmark
Mette Hegnhøj: Ella er mit navn vil du købe det? Æske med løsblade og poetsne
Notes, poetry, and script illustrations, Jensen & Dalgaard, 2014.
Jesper Wung-Sung: Ud med Knud
Novel, Forlaget Høst & Søn, 2014.
The Sami language area
Veikko Holmberg and Sissel Horndal (ill.): Durrebjørnen og skuterløypa
Novel, Davvi Girji, 2014
Finland
Maria Turtschaninoff: Maresi. Krönikor från Röda klostret
Novel, Schildts & Söderströms, 2014
Marjatta Levanto and Julia Vuori (ill.): Leonardo oikealta vasemmalle
Non-fiction, Teos, 2014
Faroe Islands
Elin á Rógvi and Marjun Reginsdóttir (ill.): Og mamma!
Novel, Bókadeildin, 2014.
Greenland
Naja Rosing-Asvid: Aqipi – til sommerfest
Novel, Milik, 2014
Iceland
Þórarinn Leifsson: Maðurinn sem hataði börn
Novel, Mál og menning, 2014
Bergrún Íris Sævarsdóttir: Vinur minn, vindurinn
Novel, Töfraland, 2014
Norway
Geir Gulliksen and Anna Fiske (Ill.): Joel og Io. En kjærlighetshistorie
Novel, Aschehoug, 2014
Simon Stranger: De som ikke finnes
Youth novel, Cappelen Damm, 2014
Sweden
Frida Nilsson: Jagger, Jagger
Novel, Natur & Kultur, 2013
Jakob Wegelius: Mördarens apa
Novel, Bonnier Carlsen, 2014
Åland
Malin Klingenberg: Alberta Ensten och uppfinnarkungen
Novel, Fontana Media, 2014
The winner will be selected by the Adjudication Committee of the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize and published during the Nordic Council Prize Award Ceremony in Reykjavik on 27 October. The prize amount is DKK 350,000.