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The International Board on Books for Young People has announced the shortlist for the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards.

Andersen was the troubled author of classic children's tales such as The Princess and The Pea Credit: Photo: Bridgeman Art Library On June 11 1857, Hans Christian Andersen arrived at Charles Dickens’s ...

The International Board on Books for Young People has announced the shortlist for the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — For years, the somber fairy tale about a lonely candle who wanted to be lit dwelt in oblivion at the bottom of a box in Denmark's National Archives. Its recent discovery has sent ...

Children’s literature author Lee Geum-i has been named a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award (HCAA) in the writing ...

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Danish historian Esben Brage has discovered a previously unknown story written by Hans Christian Andersen, the 19 th-century author responsible for such children’s classics as “The Little Mermaid,” ...

A newly discovered Hans Christian Andersen letter reveals the fairy tale writer never got to have his own “happily ever after.” The emotional letter, believed to be written in 1832 when Andersen was ...