Shaun Tan adds Lindgren to his Oscar

From the Canberra Times, 31 March 2011: After the hoo-ha of winning an Oscar a couple of weeks ago, Shaun Tan thought he was bound for a quieter life. That was until he got a phone call from Sweden on Tuesday night telling him he had won the world's richest award for children's and young-adult literature, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize, worth 5million kronor ($A767,000). ''I was washing the dishes when my phone went,'' he said.

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