Aarhus 39
European Children's Literature Hay Festival will bring Europe’s greatest children’s writers to Aarhus, European Capital of Culture in 2017
The aim is to establish the first ever globally-recognised Children’s Literature Festival in Aarhus and to engage children across the country with a nationwide literacy campaign.The European Children's Literature Hay Festival - Aarhus 39 will take place in October 2017.The Aarhus 39 concept builds on three similar festival campaigns we have run with the and the Mexico 20 project for London Book Fair’s UK–Mexico Market Focus 2015. Each of these projects has generated new festivals, new publications and long-tail campaigns that are still running across the world for a new generation of writers from Latin America (Bogotá 39), the Arab diaspora (Beirut 39) and Sub-Saharan Africa (Africa 39).
To celebrate Aarhus Capital of Culture in 2017 we have appointed a panel of three children’s writers to work with us to select 39 of their peers under the age of 40 from across Europe. Selection criteria will encompass authors of books for primary school-age children and for teenagers.
THE JUDGES
Kim Fupz Aakeson,
from Copenhagen, Denmark, is best known for his quirky, honest and
glorious picture-books for children. He is also a novelist and
illustrator for comics, contributes to professional journals and
newspapers, and writes for radio, theatre and film. He has published
more than 80 books for children and young adults, winning numerous
awards. His titles include the Vitello series, In Order of Disappearance, A Caretaker's Tale and Perfect Sense.
Ana Cristina Herreros
was born in León, north-west Spain, where she remembers her grandmother
telling stories. An academic, author and editor, she is an expert in
the oral tradition and folkloric sources. In 1992 she began professional
story-telling in theatres, libraries, schools, hospitals, prisons and
public parks. Her books, published in Catalan and English, include Popular Tales of the Mediterranean, The Book of Spanish Witches, Magical Geography and Popular Tales of Mother Death.
Matt Haig is a journalist and author living in Yorkshire whose novels have been translated into 29 languages. Children’s books include Shadow Forest, The Runaway Troll and To Be a Cat. His first book, The Last Family in England, retells Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1 with the protagonists as dogs, and is to be filmed by Brad Pitt’s production company. Other titles are The Dead Fathers Club and The Possession of Mr Cave.
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