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Shaun Tan wins Astrid Lindgren prize

World's richest children's literature award goes to Australian author-illustrator, described as a 'masterly visual storyteller'

Shaun Tan was awarded the Astrid Lindgren prize for being 'a masterly visual storyteller'. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian

The Australian author-illustrator Shaun Tan is the winner of this year's Astrid Lindgren prize – the richest children's literature prize in the world, with a purse of 5m kroner (£490,000).

Tan is the second Australian to be awarded the prize in its nine-year history, following Sonya Hartnett's win in 2008.

R.I.P. Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011)

This calls for a massive re-read of all Diana Wynne Jones's books.

Her books started me reading fantasy fiction and she remains my favourite creator of stories in that genre.

Read The Guardian obituary here.

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Best new illustrators award - audio slideshow

Judge and children's laureate Anthony Browne looks through some of the winners of this year's Booktrust best new illustrators award and talks about what makes a great picturebook

Read the full list of 10 winners on the Booktrust website

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Shaun Tan Wins an Oscar | Herald Sun

Directors Shaun Tan (right) and Andrew Ruhemann win the Oscar for best animated film for 'The Lost Thing'. Picture: AP/Matt Sayles Source: AP

MORE than a decade ago Shaun Tan was an unemployed illustrator not sure where his life was headed.

In the end, life has worked out nicely for the 37-year-old born in Fremantle, Western Australia, but now a resident of Melbourne.

Tan, you could say, is an accidental Oscar winner.

"I started off as an illustrator with no formal training other than high school," Tan said, stunned as he stood backstage at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with his gold statuette for short animated film The Lost Thing, won with British co-director Andrew Ruhemann.

The 15-minute computer generated and hand-painted movie was only supposed to be a picture book.

"I originally wrote this story in 1998," Tan said.

"I was an unemployed illustrator. I wrote it on the kitchen table of my share house, worked on it for a year, developed it as a picture book, which was then published in Melbourne around 2000. "

The story is set in Melbourne and is about a boy who, while collecting bottle caps near a beach, discovers a strange creature that seems to be a combination of an industrial boiler, a crab and an octopus.~ AAP

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N.B. View the film of The Lost Thing here.