The Extraordinary Book
The Extraordinary Book | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding literature for children, teenagers and young adults |
Presented by | Peter Weiss Foundation (organizer of the Berlin International Literature Festival) |
First awarded | 2012 |
Official website | www.literaturfestival.com |
The Extraordinary Book, founded in 2012, is an annually awarded, non-monetary honouring of the Children´s and Young Adult Program of the International Literature Festival Berlin for outstanding literature for children, teenagers and young adults.[1]
Summary
The honoured books are chosen by a jury that consists of the guests of the Children´s and Young Adult Program of the Berlin International Literature Festival, who are mostly writers and illustrators, but also scientists. While the International Literature Festival Berlin is taking place, the Extraordinary Books are exhibited at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele[2] and at the Philipp-Schaeffer library.[3] Between 2012 and 2016, 117 jurors have, in total, honoured 129 books as Extraordinary Books.
Among others, David Almond, Frank Cottrell Boyce, John Boyne, Roddy Doyle, Franz Hohler, Navid Kermani, Jon Klassen, Scott McCloud, Patrick Ness, Boualem Sansal, Riad Sattouf and Janne Teller have been jurors over the past years.
In 2012, the award was called A Narrative for Europe.[4]
Honoured Books
2012
The following 27 books were honoured by 26 jurors as The Extraordinary Book 2012:
Juror | Honoured Book |
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Azouz Begag | Night Flight (1931) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Farideh Chalatbarie | Me and My Friends (2006) by Farideh Chalatbarie |
Chen Jianghong | Struwwelpeter (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann |
Mariana Chiesa Mateos | The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank and Migrando (2010) by Mariana Chiesa Mateos |
Iwona Chmielewska | Ein Geburtstag (2007) by Doris Meisner-Johannknecht and Melanie Kemmler |
Gabriela Cichowska | Mirror (2010) by Jeannie Baker |
Dibou | Gone With the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell |
Enzo | The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coelho |
Kate De Goldi | The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky |
Golo | Treasure Island (1881) by Robert Louis Stevenson |
Finn-Ole Heinrich | De baas van alles (2007) by Bart Moeyaert |
Tendai Huchu | Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury |
Adam Jaromir | Couleurs du jour (2010) by Květa Pacovská |
Gerald Jatzek | The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book (1951) by Iona Opie and Peter Opie |
Jan de Leeuw | Dance on My Grave (1982) by Aidan Chambers |
Nils Mohl | La vie commune - Essai d'anthropologie générale (1995) by Tzvetan Todorov |
Salah Naoura | Alabama Moon (2006) by Watt Key |
Uri Orlev | Bambi (1923) by Felix Salten |
Maria Papayanni | Odyssey by Homer |
Maria Parr | Ronia the Robber's Daughter (1981) by Astrid Lindgren |
Peter Pohl | Mio, My Son (1954) by Astrid Lindgren |
Iva Procházková | The Wall (2007) by Peter Sís |
Janne Teller | A History of Western Philosophy (1945) by Bertrand Russell |
Rachel Ward | The Golden Compass (1995) by Philip Pullman |
Robert Paul Weston | Momo (1973) by Michael Ende |
Floortje Zwigtman | Junk (1996) by Melvin Burgess |
2013
The following 21 books were chosen as The Extraordinary Book 2013 by the jurors:
Juror | Honoured Book |
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Milena Baisch | Onkel Ede hat einen Schnurrbart (1971) by Bertolt Brecht and Ursula Kirchberg |
John Boyne | The Silver Sword (1956) by Ian Serraillier |
Chen Jianghong | Just Me (1965) by Marie Hall Ets |
Manuele Fior | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce |
Inés Garland | The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy |
Yves Grevet | Blanche trilogy: Blanche ou la triple contrainte de l'enfer (2005), Blanche et l'Oeil du grand khan (2006) and Blanche et le vampire de Paris (2007) by Hervé Jubert |
Finn-Ole Heinrich | Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by John M. Coetzee |
Franz Hohler | The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas (1931) by Erich Kästner |
Joke van Leeuwen | The Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino |
Nicolas Mahler | Candide (1759) by Voltaire |
Geert Mak | Over het water (1998) by H. M. van den Brink |
Raquel J. Palacio | Mondo piccolo - Don Camillo (1948) by Giovanni Guareschi |
Andreas Schulze | Holes (1998) by Louis Sachar |
Ruta Sepetys | The Arrival (2006) by Shaun Tan |
Seyyed Ali Shodjaie | The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Janne Teller | A History of Western Philosophy (1945) by Bertrand Russell |
Brecht Vandenbroucke | Elvis Road (2007) by Studio Elvis |
Robert Paul Weston | Momo (1973) by Michael Ende |
Józef Wilkoń | W Nieparyżu i gdzie indziej (1967) by Anna Kamieńska |
2014
The following 30 books were chosen as The Extraordinary Book 2014 by 22 jurors:
Juror | Honoured Book |
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Martin Baltscheit | Ariol - un petit âne comme vous et moi (2011) and Ariol - Le chevalier cheval (2011) by Emmanuel Guibert and Marc Boutavant |
Ishmael Beah | Treasure Island (1881) by Robert Louis Stevenson |
Azouz Begag | L'oeil du loup (1984) by Daniel Pennac and Jacques Ferrandez |
Mirko Bonné | Chichi no Koyomi (1995) by Jiro Taniguchi |
Iwona Chmielewska | Wie Frau B. so böse wurde... (2014) by Sonja Bougaeva |
Gabriela Cichowska | The Quiet Book (2010) by Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska |
Michael de Cock | The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006) by Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline |
Lydia Dimitrow | Such dir was aus, aber beeil dich! Kindsein in zehn Kapiteln (2010) by Nadia Budde |
Ursula Dubosarsky | Midnite (1967) by Randolph Stow |
Finn-Ole Heinrich | Die Wand (1968) by Marlen Haushofer |
Marta Ignerska | Wave (2008) by Suzy Lee |
Kim Dong-Seong | Aldo (1992) by John Burningham and School Bus (1984) by Donald Crews |
Jon Klassen | Abel's Island (1976) by William Steig |
Filippos Mandilaras | Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) by Shel Silverstein |
Truus Matti | Zwart als inkt is het verhaal van Sneeuwwitje en de zeven Dwergen (1997) by Wim Hofman |
Patrick Ness | I Want My Hat Back (2011) by Jon Klassen |
Cyril Pedrosa | Roughing It (1872) by Mark Twain and Beauté trilogy: Déris exaucés (2011), La reine indécise (2012) and Simples mortels (2013) by Kerascoët and Hubert |
Fine Riebner | His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000) by Philip Pullman |
Alessandro Sanna | Die große Frage (2004) by Wolf Erlbruch |
Judith Vanistendael | The Kittle White Horse (1946) by Elisabeth Goudge |
William Sutcliffe | Holes (1998) by Louis Sachar |
Martina Wildner | Faserland (1995) by Christian Kracht |
2015
The following 21 books were chosen as The Extraordinary Book 2015 by 20 jurors.
Juror | Honoured Book |
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David Almond | Le Avventure Di Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi and Enrico Mazzanti |
Tony Birch | Horse stealing (2003) by Per Petterson |
Peter Brown | Disney Animation – The Illusion of Life (1981) by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas |
Frank Cottrell Boyce | Emil and the Detectives (1929) by Erich Kästner and Walter Trier |
Loïc Dauvillier | The Bunny Book (2005) by Patsy Scarry and Richard Scarry |
Roddy Doyle | Danny, the Champion of the World (1975) by Roald Dahl |
Ingeborg Kringeland Hald | Pam’s Paradise Ranch (1940) by Armine von Tempski |
Ala Hlehel | Haltabees Haltabees (2010) by Rania Zaghir and David Habchy |
Jenny Jägerfeld | The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (1999) by Stephen Chbosky and Prep (2005) by Curtis Sittenfeld |
Navid Kermani | Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser - Hörbuch (2006) by Ernst H. Gombrich and Christoph Waltz |
Sjoerd Kuyper | Peter (1965) by Anne Holm |
Mawil | The Island on Bird Street (1984) by Uri Orlev |
Scott McCloud | The Arrival (2006) by Shaun Tan |
Oisín McGann | The Complete Far Side (2003) by Gary Larson |
Salah Naoura | Back to Blue (2015) by Rusalka Reh |
Jandy Nelson | Weetzie Bat (1989) by Francesca Lia Block |
Riad Sattouf | Comic Showa-Shi (1988–1989) by Shigeru Mizuki |
Edward van de Vendel | De parkiet, de zeemeermin en de slak (2015) by Annemarie van Haeringen |
Kaatje Vermeire | Aan de andere kant van de deur (1992) by Tonke Dragt |
Meg Wolitzer | Nutshell Library (Alligators all around / Chicken Soup With Rice / One was Johnny / Pierre) (1962) by Maurice Sendak |
2016
The following 30 books were chosen as The Extraordinary Book 2016 by 30 jurors:
Juror | Hounoured Book |
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Zeina Abirached | Exercises de Style (1947) by Raymond Queneau |
Julia Benner | Brown Girl Dreaming (2014) by Jacqueline Woodson |
Mina Braun | Krabat (1977) by Otfried Preußler |
Carll Cneut | Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) by Jules Verne |
Maureen Maisha Eggers | Mama's Nightingale - A Story of Immigration And Separation (2015) by Edwidge Danticat |
Simon van der Geest | Skellig (1998) by David Almond |
Alex Gino | Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) by Shel Silverstein |
Guojing | The Lost Thing (2000) by Shaun Tan |
Nikolaus Heidelbach | Vor meiner Tür auf einer Matte (2016) by Nadia Budde |
Inga Israel | The Arrival (2006) by Shaun Tan |
Maitha Al Khayat | Uncle Khalfan's Sheep (2013) by Maitha Al Khayat |
Noura Al-Khoori | Ajwan (2012) by Noura al Noman |
Sebastian Lörscher | Aber ohne mein Akkordeon bin ich nichts! (2013) by Johanna Benz |
Mawil | Q-R-T: Der neue Nachbar (2015) by Ferdinand Lutz |
Anne Mihan | The Art of Being Normal (2015) by Lisa Williamson |
Kenneth Oppel | Danny, the Champion of the World (1975) by Roald Dahl |
Håkon Øvreås | Moominpappa at Sea (1965) by Tove Jansson |
Niels Penke | The Graveyard Book (2008) by Neil Gaiman |
Markus Pfalzgraf | Ach, so ist das?! - Biografische Comicreportagen von LGBTI* (2014) by Martina Schradi |
David van Reybrouck | Tintin in Tibet (1960) by Hergé |
Yusuf Rieger | Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse |
Özge Samanci | One Hundred Demons (2002) by Lynda Barry |
Gideon Samson | Kees de jongen (1923) by Theo Thijssen |
Boualem Sansal | Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes |
Allen Say | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922) by Hugh Lofting |
Ruta Sepetys | Fiume lento - Un viaggio lungo il po (2013) by Alessandro Sanna |
Anika Ullmann | Two Boys Kissing (2013) by David Levithan |
Jakob Wegelius | L'affaire tournesol (1922) von Hergé |
Bette Westera | Torenhoog on mijlen breed (1969) by Tonke Dragt |
Benedikt Wolf | The Center of the World (1998) by Andreas Steinhöfel |
External links
- The Extraordinary Book 2016, Archive of the Extraordinary Books since 2012
References
- ↑ http://www.buchmarkt.de/meldungen/veranstaltungen/berlin-cesar-aira-eroffnete-das-16-internationale-literaturfestival-berlin/
- ↑ http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de
- ↑ https://www.berlin.de/ba-mitte/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2016/pressemitteilung.513279.php
- ↑ http://www.literaturfestival.com/kjl/archiv/projekte/europa/buch