Bart Moeyaert, writing teacher, wins the "Nobel Prize in children's literature" or the "Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2019", the most important prize for children's literature. Congratulations!
The jury’s citation reads:
"Bart Moeyaert’s condensed and musical language vibrates with suppressed emotions and unspoken desires. He portrays relationships at crisis point with a cinematic immediacy, even as his complex narratives suggest new ways forward. Bart Moeyaert’s luminous work underscores the fact that books for children and young people have a self-evident place in world literature."