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DORTE KARREBÆK
Born in 1946
Dorte Karrebæk, born 1946, trained as an illustrator at the Design School in Copenhagen and now lives in Spain.
Dorte Karrebæk has written and illustrated a large number of children’s books on an artistically advanced level using her own unique style as a basis for creating original ideas. Equipped with an eye for the unusual, she courageously and poetically draws and writes about tabooed subjects always keeping in mind the viewpoint of her audience, the children. Her style ranges from the emphatic and expressive to the grotesque and humorous.
Among her latest books: Idiot!, Lejren, Ny Bibel for de fattige i ånden og Stakkels Kanin! Det var nok det bedste!
Priser & nomineringer
1987 Ministry of Culture Initiative prize.
1988 Ministry of Culture Initiative prize.
1989 Danish winner of Munksgaard's Book Competition.
1990 IBBY's HONOURLIST.
1990 Ministry of Culture's Illustrator Award.
1996 Ministry of Culture's Book Award.
1996 The school librarian Children’s book prize - And Niels Hartman.
2009 The children librarians’ The Culture Award
2003 Danish Handicraft of the Book award for children books
2003 Danish Handicraft of the Book award for outstanding professional performance
2009 Danish Handicraft of the Book award for the best book ordination (Educational Books)
2009 Danish Handicraft of the Book award for the best book work (children and youth books)
2009 Danish Book design prize (this year's children's book prize)
2004 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2005 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2006 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2007 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2008 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2009 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2010 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2011 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2012 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2013 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2014 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2015 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2016 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2017 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2018 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2019 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2020 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2021 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2022 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2023 nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2010 winner of the first prize in the Arts Council's competition The illustrated book
2010 nominated for the Weekend newspaper's Literature prize
2010 nominated for Nordic children's book prize
2012 Danish Handicraft of the Book award for the best book work (children and youth books)
2012 Life long Grant from The Danish Arts Foundation
2012 nominated for the Politiken Literature prize
2014 nominated for the Nordic Council Childeren and
Youth Literature Price
2015 received the Danaish Academy Silas Price
2016 nominated for the Nordic Council Childeren and Youth Literature Price
2021 received Holbergmedaljen 2021