Kurt Maschler Award
The Kurt Maschler Award (1982 to 1999) was a British literary award that annually recognised one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other." Winning authors and illustrators received £1000 and a bronze figurine called the "Emil".[1]
The Award was founded by Kurt Maschler, best known as the publisher of Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner (1929). By the time of its discontinuation after the 1999 publications, it was administered by Booktrust and Tom Maschler, a British publisher and the son of the founder. At that time, it was announced in December of the publication year.[1]
Winners
[edit]Seven of the 18 winning works were written and illustrated by one person, including two by Anthony Browne. As an illustrator, Browne won three awards (a total of five Emils), and Helen Oxenbury won two. Each won for an edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865). Browne and Carroll were the only authors of two winning works.
| Year | Author | Illustrator | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Angela Carter (ed. and translator) |
Michael Foreman | Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales | V. Gollancz |
| 1983 | Anthony Browne | Browne | Gorilla | Julia MacRae |
| 1984 | John Burningham | Burningham | Granpa | J. Cape |
| 1985 | Ted Hughes (1968) | Andrew Davidson | The Iron Man | Faber |
| 1986 | Allan Ahlberg | Janet Ahlberg | The Jolly Postman | Heinemann |
| 1987 | Charles Causley | Charles Keeping | Jack the Treacle Eater | Macmillan |
| 1988 | Lewis Carroll (1865) | Anthony Browne | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Julia MacRae |
| 1989 | Martin Waddell | Barbara Firth | The Park in the Dark | Walker |
| 1990 | Quentin Blake | Blake | All Join In | J. Cape |
| 1991 | Colin McNaughton | McNaughton | Have You Seen who's just moved in next door to us? | Walker |
| 1992 | Raymond Briggs | Briggs | The Man | Julia MacRae |
| 1993 | Karen Wallace | Mike Bostock | Think of an Eel | Walker |
| 1994 | Trish Cooke | Helen Oxenbury | So Much | Walker |
| 1995 | Kathy Henderson | Patrick Benson | The Little Boat | Walker |
| 1996 | Babette Cole | Cole | Drop Dead | J. Cape |
| 1997 | William Mayne | Jonathan Heale | Lady Muck | Heinemann |
| 1998 | Anthony Browne | Browne | Voices in the Park | Doubleday |
| 1999 | Lewis Carroll (1865) | Helen Oxenbury | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Walker |
The first two Kurt Maschler Award winners and the final winner also received the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the CILIP, which recognises the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.[2] Among these, the 1983 winner, Gorilla, illustrated by Anthony Browne, and the 1999 winner, Helen Oxenbury's edition of Alice in Wonderland, were named two of the top ten Greenaway-winning works (1955–2005) during that Medal's 50-year celebration in 2007.[3] Three other Maschler winners were highly commended runners-up for the Greenaway Medal, a distinction awarded roughly annually at the time: Browne's edition of Alice, Oxenbury for So Much, and Patrick Benson for The Little Boat.[2]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Kurt Maschler Awards". Book Awards. bizland.com. Retrieved 7 February 2008.
- ^ a b "Carnegie Medal Award". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). 2012-07-21.
- ^ "70 Years Celebration: Anniversary Top Tens". The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-21.