London, Friday 31 March 2023. The London Ebook Truthful has at present introduced Klaus Flugge, Founding father of Andersen Press, because the recipient of the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award 2023.
Klaus Flugge is a number one mild on the planet of youngsters’s publishing and illustration. After founding Andersen Press – named after Hans Christian Andersen – within the autumn of 1976, he went on to publish a number of the most acclaimed illustrators worldwide, together with David McKee, Tony Ross, Satoshi Kitamura, Sir Quentin Blake and Chris Riddell to call just a few. In 1999, he turned the primary writer to obtain the Eleanor Farjeon Award for excellent contribution to kids’s books and in 2010 he turned the primary writer to be awarded Honorary Membership of the Youth Libraries Group. In 2013 Klaus was made an honorary citizen of the Metropolis of Bologna in recognition of his dedication to kids’s books overseas.
To have a good time Andersen Press’ 40th anniversary in 2016, he established the Klaus Flugge Prize. Awarded to essentially the most promising and thrilling newcomer to kids’s image e-book illustration, it has change into one of the prestigious and wanted awards for rising image e-book expertise.
Gareth Rapley, Director of The London Ebook Truthful, mentioned: “We’re delighted to call Klaus Flugge the recipient of this 12 months’s London Ebook Truthful Lifetime Achievement Award. For practically 5 a long time, Klaus has been a luminary in kids’s publishing, bringing unbelievable tales and phenomenal illustrations to tens of millions of youngsters throughout the globe. His ardour for championing rising expertise is massively inspiring, as is recognised yearly within the image e-book prize established in his title. As a dad to younger kids myself, I really like sharing Andersen Press books with my youngsters, and I stay up for celebrating Klaus in particular person on the honest, lower than a month from now.”
David Roche, Non-Govt Chair of The London Ebook Truthful, commented: “The LBF Lifetime Achievement Award Judging Panel is delighted to recognise the large contribution of Klaus Flugge and current the 2023 award to him. Klaus began Andersen Press in 1976 and constructed a rare roster of expertise that has impressed generations. The firm continues to be going sturdy at present, as is he. It’s great and typical of Klaus {that a} prize in his title, and funded personally by him, was arrange whereas he was in his eighties to acknowledge essentially the most promising and thrilling new illustrators. We’re stuffed with admiration and love for Klaus, and it’s becoming that, like Elmer, we are going to always remember his improbable contribution to the worldwide e-book world.”
Baroness Gail Rebuck, DBE, commented: “Boundless vitality, a ardour for publishing and sensible style in kids’s illustration all characterise Klaus Flugge, the outstanding writer who based Andersen Press. Klaus combines nice style, a really feel for the youngsters’s market and a powerful enterprise sense however it’s his effervescent creativity and love of books that hold his high roster of authors and illustrators loyal. I’m so happy that after a stellar profession and plenty of awards, Klaus is given a Lifetime Achievement Award at The London Ebook Truthful.”
Diana Gerald, CEO BookTrust, mentioned: “I’m delighted to listen to that the legendary Klaus Flugge is the recipient of The London Ebook Truthful’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He’s behind so lots of the large books which have gotten kids to like studying over the a long time. In doing this, he may have remodeled so many lives as these kids reaped the advantages of turning into common readers. From the sweetest of image books together with David McKee’s Elmer, all the best way to Melvin Burgess’s onerous hitting YA novel Junk, and every part in between… It’s a spectacular legacy.”
Ian Hudson, Govt Director and Managing Director Shopper Publishing, added: “Klaus Flugge is a Kids’s writer past evaluate. He has all the time had a tremendous eye for illustration, an exquisite nostril for an excellent storyline, and an unbelievable community of companions around the globe who need to publish Andersen Press books. However greater than this, he’s a shrewd businessman, a real gentleman and he has a giant coronary heart, I really feel enormously privileged to have learnt a lot from him and to have the ability to name him my good friend.”
The Lifetime Achievement Award committee chosen Klaus Flugge from a shortlist of main worldwide publishing figures.
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognises a person who has made a really vital mark within the sphere of worldwide publishing. It’s open to publishers, brokers, editors, scouts and anybody else concerned in worldwide publishing from any nation on the planet.
Klaus Flugge shall be introduced together with his award at a particular reception celebrating the Worldwide Excellence Awards winners and the Lifetime Achievement Award throughout The London Ebook Truthful, on Wednesday 19 April between 5-6pm.
PREVIOUS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS:
2022 – Hiroshi Hayakawa, Hayakawa Publishing, Japan
2021 – Margaret Busby, Allison & Busby, UK
2020 – Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK
2019 – Dorotea Bromberg, Brombergs Bokförlag, Sweden
2018 – Sara Miller McCune, Sage Publishing, US
2017 – Luiz Schwarcz, Companhia das Letras, Brazil
2016 – Gail, Baroness Rebuck DBE, Penguin Random Home, UK
2015 – Peter Usborne, Usborne, UK
2014 – Deborah Rogers, Rogers, Coleridge & White, UK
2013 – Michael Krüger, Hanser Verlag, Germany
2012 – Jorge Herralde, Editions Anagrama, Spain
2011 – Sonny Mehta, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., US
2010 – Antoine Gallimard, Éditions Gallimard, France
2009 – Drenka Willen, Harcourt, USA
2008 – Peter Mayer, Overlook Press and Duckworth, UK & USA
2007 – Lord Weidenfeld, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, UK
2006 – Christopher MacLehose, MacLehose Press, UK
2005 – Lynette Owen, Pearson Training, UK
2004 – John Lyons, Little, Brown, UK & USA
The London Ebook Truthful (LBF) is the biggest spring e-book commerce and publishing occasion on the planet, and can happen at Olympia London, 18-20th April 2023.
