Hall of Fame

The connection of art and literature, the connection of awardees. The Hall of Fame exhibition is connected to that. The world of illustrations will be revealed by the winners of the Grand Prix BIB 2021 and the Hans Christian Andersen Prize 2022 - Elena Odriozola, winner of the BIB Grand Prix 2021, Suzy Lee, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize 2022 for illustration, Marie-Aude Murail, winner of the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Prize for literature.

Date: October 2 - December 3, 2023, October 30 - 31. CLOSED

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday - 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m

Free entrance.

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Elena Odriozola, Spain

Holder of the Grand Prix BIB 2021 

Elena Odriozola (1972) is a Basque illustrator who studied art and design. She is currently a very successful illustrator for children and young people, having illustrated around a hundred books. Her style is very distinctive and consistent with an extremely high narrative potential. She won the BIB Grand Prix 2021 for her illustrations for the book Mixed Feelings (Sentimientos encontrados). Created with a pencil drawing technique, they loosely depict the story of seven characters, bringing ordinary family events to life through images. Each painting manages to draw the reader into the story while leaving room for the reader to project their own feelings. The book is experimental in nature. Odriozola won the BIB Golden Apple in 2015 and has been nominated multiple times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020) and the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2018, 2020).

A selection of book illustration work: Christmas (Eguberria, Nerea 2012); Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (Frankenstein, Nórdica libros 2013); On the Nature of Plants (De natura florum, Nórdica libros 2020); In the Forest (En el bosque, Libros del zorro rojo, 2017); Mixed Feelings (Sentimientos encontrados, Ediciones Modernas El Embudo 2020)

Suzy Lee, Republic of Korea

Holder of the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2022 for Illustration

Suzy Lee (1974) graduated from Seoul National University and Camberwell College of Art in London. She subsequently began illustrating children's books and founded her own publishing house, Hintoki Press, dedicated to publishing her original experimental children's books inspired by Korean folk motifs. Her sophisticated, playful, minimalist illustrations drawn in charcoal or pencil, mostly in black and white and accompanied by one or more accent colours, are typical of her work. Her original books are often so-called silent books (without text), both aesthetically and book-wise highly innovative. They use the format or the orientation of the pages to complete the non-verbal narrative and draw the reader into the game of finding clues or hidden messages that she hides in her illustrations. The books Mirror, Wave and Shadow from her trilogy, for instance, experiment with the physical centre of the book - the binding - as a boundary between fantasy and reality. Among the awards Lee has won are the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book 2008, the IBBY Silent Books Honour List 2013, the Bologna Ragazzi Award (a special recognition in the fiction category) 2021, 2022, and in 2022 the most important award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

A selection of book illustration work: Mirror (Edizioni Corraini, 2003); Wave (Chronicle Books, 2008); The Shadow (Chronicle Books, 2010); Lines (Chronicle Books, 2017); This Beautiful Day (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2017); Summer, (BIR Publishing, 2021).

Marie-Aude Murail, France

Holder of the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2022 for Literature

Marie-Aude Murail (1954) studied literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She has written nearly a hundred books for children and adults and is acclaimed at home and abroad, especially for her novels with unforgettable characters that enchant the reader. Her primary themes are politics, history, love, adventure and fantasy, and her books have been translated into more than 27 languages. In addition to writing, she is committed to spreading literacy and promoting reading among children, as well as activism for the rights of migrants and children from migrant families. She has received several awards for her work in France and several nominations for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize, which she eventually won in 2022 for her lifelong contribution to children's literature.

A selection of book illustration work: Oh, boy! (EDL 2000); Simple (Simple, EDL 2004); Miss Charity (EDL, 2008); 3000 Ways to Say I Love You (3000 façons de dire je t'aime, EDL 2013); Savior & Sons Season 1 (Sauveur & Fils Saison 1, EDL 2016); Angie! (EDL 2021)