The nominees for the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award have been announced.  There are 170 people on the list, so I won’t reprint the entire list here!  Scanning for familiar names, I saw that the following are on the list:

David Almond

Quentin Blake

Aiden Chambers

Niki Daly

Morris Gleitzman

Kevin Henkes

Russel Hoban

Shirley Hughes

Maira Kalman

Lois Lowry

Margret Mahy

Michael Morpurgo

Greg Mortenson

Walter Dean Myers

Anne Pellowski

Jutta Richter

Allen Say

Uri Shulevitz

Peter Sis

Shaun Tan

Kate Thompson

Tomi Ungerer

Jacqueline Wilson

Diana Wynne Jones

 

I’m sure I missed authors in my quick scan!  I wonder how they manage to make a selection with so many amazing and diverse authors nominated.  Glad I don’t have to make that choice!