Award Winners 2026

Illustratorerne i Dansk Forfatterforening, Danmark
Josefine Weber Hansen og Rikke Frigast Jakobsen, Danmark
Helena Březinová, Tjekkiet

Hans Christian Andersen Award Committee

Since 1996 the Hans Christian Andersen Award Committee has presented its Honarary Award to 93 different organizations and individuals from 21 different countries. These range from Brazil to China and, of course, Denmark is also among them. The Award is presented in recognition of outstanding achievements in working with Hans Christian Andersen and of contributions to promoting and spreading further knowledge of the Danish national poet in many parts of the world. This work is expressed in the publication of new

translations and publications, in many forms of artistic creativity, in philantrophical or educational activities. It has been our undivided pleasure to appreciate those many activities with a award and to celebrate them with an annual ceremony on the poet’s birthday in his native town of Odense. Odense itself has been richly awarded by the many ties link­ing us cordially to men and women from all over the world; many of them return to Odense each year when the 2nd of April approaches.

The Award Ceremony 2026 to take place in Copenhagen

We are delighted to reveal this year’s award recipients and to announce that the 2026 award ceremony will take place in Copenhagen—more specifically in the H. C. Andersen Lounge at Magasin du Nord. The lounge is located directly adjacent to the chamber where H. C. Andersen lived from 1827 to 1828, and it will be possible to visit the chamber in connection with the ceremony.

For the occasion, Andersen Bakery has created a special “visit cake” inspired by the poet, and we look forward to treating the invited guests.

We greatly appreciate the collaboration with both partners and are pleased with the warm reception in Copenhagen, which can certainly be said to be somewhat easier for the Prize Committee than it initially was for the young poet during the first period of his life in the capital.

We are delighted to follow in his footsteps, 207 years after he made the journey himself.

The award ceremony is supported by the Danish Ministry of Culture.

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