Bart Moeyaert accepts the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2019
The Belgian author Bart Moeyaert tonight received the world’s largest literature award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award at a ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall. The award was presented by H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria. In his acceptance speech, Bart Moeyaert emphasized the importance of offering children valuable memories. − It’s curious how words that you learn as a young child can remain etched in your memory forever. It also shows exactly how important the age of six, seven, eight is. The fact that something can be etched in the memory. The fact that we can seize the