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Klaus Flugge Prize 2019

September 13, 2019/0 Comments/by FCBG blog

Judges former Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne and 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize winner Kate Milner make the announcement

Jessica Love was announced winner of the 2019 Klaus Flugge Prize on Wednesday 11th September. Set up in honour of veteran publisher, founder of Andersen Press Klaus Flugge, the prize is for the most exciting and promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. Jessica won for her book Julian is a Mermaid (Walker Books), in which a little boy riding the New York City subway with “his nana” dreams of looking like the spectacularly dressed women they see – and ends up, with his grandmother’s help, joining the iconic Mermaid Parade.

The photo shows, left to right, Audrey Keri-Nagy, Klaus Flugge and Anthony Browne.

Jessica Love, who lives in New York, was unable to collect her award in person but sent a filmed message in which she declared herself ‘devastato’ to be unable to be there in person. She explained that for the past five years, she has been ‘a hustling out of work actor, waiting tables, babysitting’ while creating the book; praised the extraordinarily talented young female illustrators working at the moment, including her fellow shortlisted illustrators Sam Boughton, Eve Coy, Emily Haworth-Booth, Fifi Kuo and Marie Voigt, describing their books as ‘complex, moving, funny, deep’; and how winning the prize felt like ‘getting into Hogwarts’. She also praised Klaus Flugge for his extraordinary commitment to illustrators and children’s book illustration.

The shortlist photo shows, left to right, Sam Boughton, Eve Coy, Kate Milner, Klaus Flugge, Audrey Keri-Nagy, Marie Voigt, Anthony Browne and Emily Haworth-Booth.

Audrey Keri-Nagy, Art Director of Walker Books accepted the award on Jessica’s behalf.

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