Winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Award: acquainting teenagers and young people with outstanding European authors

2026-07-22

"The project aims to integrate Ukrainian teenagers into the European context by disseminating the European literary heritage – works by European authors of the international Hans Christian Andersen Award. Given the goal, the project provides the translation into Ukrainian, printing, promotion, and distribution of works by recognized European authors (winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Award) in Ukraine. These are such works: • Marie-Aude Murail ""Simple"" (France) • Annie Schmidt ""Minoes"" (Netherlands) • Christine Nöstlinger ""Olfi Obermeier und der Ödipus"" (Austria) • Cecil Bødker ""Hungerbarnet"" (Denmark) • Erich Kästner ""Das doppelte Lottchen"" (Germany) These works have gone down in the history of literature, are the national cultural heritage of these countries, and create a national cultural context. Furthermore, some of them have gone beyond literature itself - for example, Cecil Bødker's ""Hungerbarnet"", Annia Schmidt “Minos” and Erich Kästner's ""Das doppelte Lottchen"" have been filmed. The project involves the promotion and distribution of publications at the national and international level in various formats (offline and online): 1) the books will be distributed in bookstore chains in Ukraine, and the books will also be delivered to offline and online bookstores in Poland, Germany, and Canada (given that many Ukrainian children and teenagers are currently living in these countries), as well as bookstores in other countries; 2) the project is scheduled to be presented in Ukrainian bookstores, libraries, and the Ukrainian Library in Gdansk (Poland)."

Ukraine

2025-10-15