Shaun Tan wins Astrid Lindgren prize

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

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. => http://bit.ly/hZd3ON