International honours include: IBBY Honour Book List 2014 and a Luchs (Lynx) Award for Children’ Literature for The Golden Day a YALSA Excellence in Non-fiction for Young Adults Nomination 2010 for The Word Snoop inclusion in the International Youth Library (IYL) White Ravens International Catalogue 2007 for The Red Shoe and 1996 for The First Book of Samuel. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2013, 20. Her international profile is impressive – many of her works have been published in the UK and the USA, and have also been translated into several European languages and also into Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Hebrew. In 2013 she was inducted into the Speech Pathology Australia Hall of Fame for services to children’s speech and literacy. Her books have been frequently shortlisted and Honour Books in the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards, winning the Book of the Year Award in 2011 for The Return of the Word Spy. Over a 25-year period of continued publication, she has won nine national literary prizes, including five New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, more than any other writer in the Awards’ history. Dubosarsky has also produced a great range of illustrated books in collaboration with several distinguished Australian illustrators. Other novels range from the fantasy of The Game of the Goose (2000) to the experimental surrealistic work Abyssinia (2001) and the historical young adult fiction of The Red Shoe (2006) and The Golden Day (2011). Then came a succession of novels for older children including Th e First Book of Samuel (1995), for which she wrote a sequel, Theodora’s Gift (2005).

After travel and a year on a kibbutz in Israel, she returned to Australia and published her first picture book for children, Maisie and the Pinny Gig in 1989. Ursula Dubosarsky (1961-) was born into a family of writers in Sydney where she graduated from Sydney University in 1982. IBBY announced the names of 28 writers and 29 illustrators from 34 countries nominated for these prestigious awards on 30 March at the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair. Both are esteemed creators with international profiles. IBBY Australia Inc is thrilled to announce that Australian nominees for the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Awards are: URSULA DUBOSARSKY (WRITER) and BRONWYN BANCROFT (ILLUSTRATOR).

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