Laurie Halse Anderson donates $100,000 to PEN America’s fight against book bans
The 2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate, American writer Laurie Halse Anderson, is donating $100,000 of her prize money to Pen America’s fight against book bans. “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance”, says Laurie Halse Anderson in her statement. Laurie Halse Anderson is one of America’s foremost writers for young adults. In her richly expressive novels she gives voice to the adolescent experience with sometimes brutal honesty. Many of Laurie Halse Anderson’s books are frequently found on lists of banned books: books that, in some states or districts in