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Prize Culture and Diversity in British Children's Literature

2019; International Research Society for Children's Literature; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3366/ircl.2019.0293

1755-6201

Lucy Pearson, Karen Sands-O’Connor, Aishwarya Subramanian,

Australian History and Society

Literary prizes often determine eligibility in terms of nationality; this article posits that they also play a significant role in constructing national literatures. An analysis of the Carnegie Medal, the UK's oldest children's book award, and some of its competitors, including the Guardian Prize and Other Award demonstrates the tension between the desire to claim cultural value for children's literature and to construct a body of literature that represents the real and imagined community of the nation. In the UK, this tension appears most notably with regard to depictions of Black, Asian and minority ethnic Britons.