The recipients of the award
Six authors have been honoured as Hans Christian Andersen Literary Award recipients. Altogether, they represent a wide range of literary styles and forms. Yet, they share a vision that our experience of the perceptible world is only a small part of the reality that exists beyond this vale of tears. See and read more about all the literature award recipients below.
2022
Karl Ove Knausgård
The Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård will be the seventh and the first Nordic recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
2018
A.S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Byatt is an English novelist and poet, known professionally as A.S. Byatt. She received the H.C. Andersen Literature Award in October 2018.
2016
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. He received the H.C. Andersen Literature Award in 2016.
2014
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay less than two months before the end of the British Raj. He received the H.C. Andersen Literature Award in 2014.
2012
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American novelist whose novels weave myth and realism. She received the H.C. Andersen Literature Award in 2012.
2010
J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling is a British novelist and screenwriter. She received the H.C. Andersen Literature Award in 2010.
2007
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho received an “Honorary Award” from the city of Odense in 2007, and became the first recipient of an award that, in 2010, would be named the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.