Australian author-illustrator Shaun Tan was presented with the Astrid Lindgren memorial award in a ceremony in Stockholm earlier this month. At five million Swedish kroner (nearly half a million pounds) it is the world's largest prize for children's literature.
Best-known for his wordless graphic novel about immigration The Arrival, and The Red Tree, a beautiful picture book offering a searing insight into depression without ever explicitly mentioning the topic, Tan was commended by the jury as a "masterly visual storyteller" who "combines brilliant, magical narrative skill with deep humanism".
