Dr. Perry Nodelman, Professor Emeritus
UWinnipeg’s Dr. Perry Nodelman, Professor Emeritus, is the recipient of the 2015 International Brothers Grimm Award. The award is presented by the International Institute for Children’s Literature in Osaka, Japan, to a scholar who has produced outstanding research in the field of children’s literature and picture books. UWinnipeg’s Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures and Department of English are honouring his achievement through a public lecture and reception. Nodelman’s lecture Before and Beyond Words About Pictures: Picture Books and Picture Book Studies, Then and Now will take place on Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. at The University of Winnipeg, Room 2M70.
Dr. Nodelman worked as a Professor in the Department of English at The University of Winnipeg for thirty-seven years. He is the author of Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children’s Picture Books (1988), The Pleasures of Children’s Literature (1992), and The Hidden Adult: Defining Children’s Literature (2008), and he has written many influential articles on children’s literature, as well as a number of novels for young readers.
