Gleeson Awarded 2011 Dromkeen Medal
Libby Gleeson is the winner of the 2011 Dromkeen Medal. The annual award is presented to ‘an Australian citizen for a significant contribution to the appreciation and development of children’s literature in Australia’.
Gleeson is the author of more than thirty children’s books including award winners Amy and Louis (illustrated by Freya Blackwood) and The Great Bear (illustrated by Armin Greder). Gleeson has been shortlisted more than a dozen times for Children’s Book Council of Australia awards and various Premiers’ Literary Awards from 1985 to 2011. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2007 for her service to literature as an author, literacy advocate and writers’ mentor and guide.
Gleeson will receive the medal from the Governors of the Court Oldmeadow Children’s Literature Foundation at a ceremony in March 2012. For more information on the work of Dromkeen, ‘The Home of Australian Children's Book Illustration’, see the Dromkeen pages on Scholastic Australia’s website.