Nahoko Uehashi, author of anime-adapted novel series Moribito and Erin, has won the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award, the children's literature equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The author was informed by the Japanese Board on Books for Young People on March 24th.
Nahoko Uehashi, who is also a PhD anthropologist and professor of ethnology, said, "I feel like I'm in a dream."
"I have always striven to portray people who do their best to live in a world into which they were born. I have wanted my books to be read by both children and adults alike, so I am very happy to learn that my stories pulled at the heartstrings of readers overseas."
Previous Japanese recipients of the Switzerland-based International Board on Books for Young People's award include 1994 winner Michio Mado, as well as Andersen Illustrator Award winners Suekichi Akaba (1980) and Mitsumasa Anno (1984).
Two volumes of Moribito have been released in English by Arthur A. Levine Books. Media Blasters released the anime.
The Erin anime streams on Crunchyroll.
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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