Meet the nominees for the 2022 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize

This year’s nominees also deal with more difficult topics of prejudice and making amends, as well as lead us through the horrors of war, terrorist attacks, and onwards towards hope and mutual understanding. Gender roles, identity, and ethnicity are also highlighted through the prism of children’s logic, and new life is breathed into ancient calfskin manuscripts. On top of that, nature, eco-criticism, the confusion of love, and chaos are all depicted at a furious pace.

Here are the books that could win the 2022 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize:

The works have been nominated by the national members of the adjudication committee for the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize. 

The winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize will be announced on 1 November in Helsinki during a live awards ceremony in conjunction with the Session of the Nordic Council. The winner will receive the Nordlys statuette and DKK 300,000. 

The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize was first awarded in 2013. The prize was born out of the long-standing desire of the Nordic ministers for culture to strengthen and highlight literature for children and young people in the Nordic Region. The prize goes to a literary work for children and young people written in one of the Nordic languages. The work can combine text and images, and must meet high literary and artistic standards.