Jury member Mats Kempe presented the nomination list for ALMA 2020

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Joy Lawrence, Promoter of reading
 

ARGENTINA Maria Teresa Andruetto, Author CEDILIJ, Organisation Jorge Luján, Author María Wernicke, Author/Illustrator
 

AUSTRALIA Randa Abdel-Fattah, Author Jeannie Baker, Illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft, Illustrator Ursula Dubosarsky, Author Susanne Gervay, Author Morris Gleitzman, Author Indigenous Literary Foundation, Organisation Robert Ingpen, Illustrator Margo Lanagan, Author Magabala Books, Organisation Melina Marchetta, Author The Literature Centre, Organisation
 

AUSTRIA Renate Welsh, Author Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator
 

AZERBAIJAN Solmaz Amanova, Author Aynur Mammadova, Illustrator Sevinj Nurugizi, Author
 

BELARUS Piatro Vasiuchenka, Author
 

BELGIUM Anne Brouillard, Author/Illustrator Carll Cneut, Illustrator Ingrid Godon, Illustrator

Anne Herbauts, Author/Illustrator Thomas Lavachery, Author Prix Bernard Versele, Organisation Klaas Verplancke, Author/Illustrator
 

BOLIVIA Biblioteca Thurucapitas, Organisation
 

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Mirsad Bećirbašić, Author Šimo Ešić, Author
 

BRAZIL Roger Mello, Author/Illustrator
 

BULGARIA Maya Dalgacheva, Author Julia Spiridonova, Author
 

CAMEROON Christian Epanya, Author/Illustrator
 

CANADA Deborah Ellis, Author Marie-Francine Hébert, Author Jon Klassen, Author/Illustrator Uma Krishnaswami, Author
 

CANADA/IRAN Nahid Kazemi, Illustrator
 

CHILE Fundación Había Una Vez, Organisation
 

CHINA Gao Hongbo, Author Liang Xiong, Author/Illustrator Zhang Zhilu, Author

COLOMBIA Ivar Da Coll, Author/Illustrator Proyecto Gulliver, Organisation
 

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO/UNITED KINGDOM Dominique Mwankumi, Author/Illustrator
 

CROATIA Dubravka Kolanović, Illustrator
 

CYPRUS Tsangaris Hambis, Illustrator
 

CZECH REPUBLIC Petr Nikl, Author/Illustrator Květa Pacovská, Illustrator
 

DENMARK Kim Fupz Aakeson, Author Biblo.dk, Organisation Lilian Brøgger, Illustrator Louis Jensen, Author Dorte Karrebæk, Illustrator
 

ECUADOR Edna Iturralde, Author
 

EGYPT Yacoub El-Sharouni, Author/Oral storyteller/ Promoter of reading
 

ESTONIA Ulla Saar, Illustrator Leelo Tungal, Author Urmas Viik, Illustrator
 

FAROE ISLANDS Rakel Helmsdal, Author/Illustrator/Promoter of reading/ Oral storyteller
 

FINLAND Linda Bondestam, Illustrator Marika Maijala, Author/Illustrator Timo Parvela, Author Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Author/Illustrator Maria Turtschaninoff, Author
 

FRANCE A.C.C.E.S., Organisation L’Agence Quand les Livres Relient, Organisation Benjamin Chaud, Author/Illustrator Olivier Douzou, Author/Illustrator Timothée de Fombelle, Author Bernard Friot, Author Marie-Aude Murail, Author Geneviève Patte, Promoter of reading François Place, Author/Illustrator François Roca, Illustrator Jean-Claude Mourlevat, Author
 

GEORGIA Giorgi Chachanidze, Illustrator Bondo Matsaberidze, Author Tea Topuria, Author Mariam Tsiklauri, Author
 

GERMANY Jutta Bauer, Illustrator Nadia Budde, Author/Illustrator Nikolaus Heidelbach, Illustrator Internationale Jugendbibliothek, Organisation Janosch, Author/Illustrator Labor Ateliergemeinschaft, Organisation Stiftung Lesen, Organisation
 

GREECE ECHO Refugee Library, Organisation Vagelis Iliopoulos, Author Antonis Papatheodoulou, Author
 

GREENLAND Naja Rosing-Asvid, Author/Illustrator Lene Therkildsen, Promoter of reading
 

HUNGARY István Csukás, Author Tibor Zálan, Author
 

ICELAND Sigrún Eldjárn, Author/Illustrator
 

INDIA A & A Book Trust, Organisation Pratham Books, Organisation
 

IRAN Children’s Book Council, Organisation Mehdi Hejvani, Promoter of reading Jamshid Khanian, Author Mobile Library of Iran, Organisation Houshang Moradi Kermani, Author Read with Me, Organisation Mohammad Reza Shams, Author Aliasghar Seidabadi, Promoter of reading
 

ITALY Beatrice Alemagna, Author/Illustrator Chiara Carminati, Author Lampedusa Library, Organisation Sarolta Szulyovszky, Illustrator Linda Wolfsgruber, Illustrator

JAPAN Kyoko Matsuoka, Promoter of reading Seizo Tashima, Illustrator
 

JORDAN Taghrid al-Najjar, Author
 

REPUBLIC OF KOREA Heena Baek, Illustrator Korean Children’s Book Association, Organisation Lee Juyoung, Promoter of reading Uk-Bae Lee, Illustrator
 

LATVIA Gundega Muzikante, Illustrator Gita Treice, Illustrator
 

LEBANON/BELGIUM Fatima Sharafeddine, Author
 

LITHUANIA Kęstutis Kasparavičius, Author/Illustrator
 

MOLDOVA Ion Creanga National Children’s Library, Organisation
 

THE NETHERLANDS De SchrijversCentrale, Organisation Annemarie van Haeringen, Author/Illustrator Joke van Leeuwen, Author/Illustrator Gideon Samson, Author Toon Tellegen, Author Thé Tjong-Khing, Illustrator Marit Törnqvist, Author/Illustrator Edward van de Vendel, Author
 

NICARAGUA German Nicaraguan Library and the Bibliobús Bertold Brecht, Organisation
 

NORWAY Lene Ask, Illustrator Rune Belsvik, Author Gro Dahle, Author Harald Rosenløw Eeg, Author Stian Hole, Author/Illustrator Marit Kaldhol, Author Leser Søker Bok, Organisation Gry Moursund, Author/Illustrator Svein Nyhus, Author/Illustrator Maria Parr, Author Øyvind Torseter, Illustrator
 

PALESTINE Sonia Nimr, Author
 

THE PHILIPPINES Virgilio Senadren Almario, Author Kristiyano-Islam Peace Library, Organisation Neni Sta. Romana Cruz, Promoter of reading
 

POLAND All of Poland Reads to Kids, Organisation Iwona Chmielewska, Illustrator Paweł Pawlak, Illustrator Małgorzata Karolina Piekarska, Author Marcin Szczygielski, Author Józef Wilkoń, Illustrator
 

PORTUGAL Bernardo P. Carvalho, Illustrator António Jorge Gonçalves, Illustrator Maria Teresa Maia Gonzales, Author Catarina Sobral, Illustrator
 

ROMANIA Florin Bican, Author/Oral storyteller/Promoter of reading Andrea Kürti, Illustrator Vasile Olac, Illustrator
 

RUSSIAN FEDERATION Anastasia Arkhipova, Illustrator Nina Dashevskaya, Author Ilga Ponornitskaya (Eugeniya Basova), Author Russian State Children’s Library, Organisation Alexander Traugot, Illustrator Mikhail Yasnov, Author
 

SERBIA Jasminka Petrović, Author Ljubivoje Ršumović, Author
 

SLOVENIA Slavko Pregl, Author/Promoter of reading Anja Štefan, Author/Oral storyteller
 

SOUTH AFRICA Biblionef South Africa, Organisation Niki Daly, Author/Illustrator Gcina Mhlope, Author/Oral storyteller/ Promoter of reading
 

SOUTH AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM Beverley Naidoo, Author
 

SPAIN Elena Odriozola, Illustrator Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Author
 

SUDAN Salah Elmur, Illustrator
 

SWEDEN Eva Eriksson, Illustrator Gunna Grähs, Illustrator Joanna Hellgren, Illustrator Olof Landström, Illustrator Pija Lindenbaum, Author/Illustrator Eva Lindström, Author/Illustrator
Frida Nilsson, Author Klara Persson, Author/Illustrator Anna-Clara Tidholm, Illustrator Cecilia Torudd, Author/Illustrator Jakob Wegelius, Author/Illustrator Ilon Wikland, Illustrator Monica Zak, Author/Oral storyteller/Promoter of reading
 

SWITZERLAND Albertine, Illustrator Franz Hohler, Author
 

TAIWAN Jimmy Liao, Author/Illustrator
 

TURKEY Aytül Akal, Author Ayla Çınaroğlu, Author/Illustrator Mustafa Delioğlu, Illustrator Huban Korman, Illustrator
 

UKRAINE Kateryna Shtanko, Illustrator Lesia Voronyna, Author
 

UNITED KINGDOM Allan Ahlberg, Author David Almond, Author Quentin Blake, Illustrator Theresa Breslin, Author Aidan Chambers, Author/Promoter of reading Aidan & Nancy Chambers, Promoters of reading Michael Foreman, Author/Illustrator Emily Gravett, Author/Illustrator Daniel Hahn, Promoter of reading Frances Hardinge, Author Shirley Hughes, Author/Illustrator Elizabeth Laird, Author Margaret Meek Spencer, Promoter of reading
Patrick Ness, Author Luke Pearson, Author/Illustrator Jan Pienkowski, Illustrator Katherine Rundell, Author Marcus Sedgwick, Author John Shelley, Illustrator David Wood, Author
 

UNITED STATES Laurie Halse Anderson, Author Eric Carle, Author/Illustrator Kate DiCamillo, Author Margarita Engle, Author Maira Kalman, Author/Illustrator Stephen Krashen, Promoter of reading Christopher Myers, Author/Illustrator Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator Javaka Steptoe, Illustrator Tim Tingle, Oral storyteller Jack Zipes, Author/Promoter of reading
 

ZAMBIA Lubuto Library Partners, Organisation