Katherine Paterson - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	31-October-1932
Place of Birth	Huai'an (China, Jiangsu)
Nationality	United States of America, China
Also know as	Katherine Womeldorf
Profession	Writer, Author, Novelist
Katherine Paterson is an American author best known for children's novels. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of three people to win the two major international awards: for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense", she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest prize in children's literature. She was the second U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, 2010â€“2011, and she received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the American Library Association in 2013.

Awards by Katherine Paterson

Check all the awards nominated and won by Katherine Paterson.

2013

Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal

2008

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Bread and roses, too 5 up

2006

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2005

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	The Same Stuff as Stars 5 up
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2003

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children	The Same Stuff as Stars

1998

Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing

1994

Phoenix Award	Honored for : Of Nightingales That Weep

1993

Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)	Jacob Have I Loved
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)	The Master Puppeteer

1981

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : Jacob Have I Loved

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	Jacob Have I Loved
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover)	Jacob Have I Loved

1980

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Children's Books (Paperback)	The Great Gilly Hopkins

1979

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The Great Gilly Hopkins

National Book Award for Children's Books

Honored for : The Great Gilly Hopkins

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Jane Addams Children's Book Award	The Great Gilly Hopkins
John Newbery Medal	The Great Gilly Hopkins
National Book Award for Children's Books	The Great Gilly Hopkins

1978

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : Bridge to Terabithia

Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	Bridge to Terabithia

1977

National Book Award for Children's Books

Honored for : The Master Puppeteer

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile	The Master Puppeteer
National Book Award for Children's Books	The Master Puppeteer

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