latest work, Retratos de Carolina (2002), her continual experimentation as a writer has led her in a new direction: she allows us to follow the main character from childhood through to adulthood in a narrative partly written in the form of a meta-novel. Bojunga uses this device to extend the boundaries of literature for children and young people in an attempt, as she herself puts it, to make room both for herself and the characters she has created in one single house, "a house of my own invention". Translations of Bojunga's works have been published in many languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Bulgarian, Czech and Hebrew. The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Jansson received the writing award in 1966. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, which she won in 2004, is the biggest prize in children's literature. Beside the Andersen and Lindgren Awards she has a number of others including the Jabuti Award (1973) and the Rattenfänger Literaturpreis (1986). Works in English The Companions – Translated by Ellen Watson. Illustrated by Larry Wilkes. 1st ed. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989 (Os Colegas, 1972) My Friend the Painter – Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991 (O Meu Amigo Pintor, 1987) See also References External links Lygia Bojunga Nunes: o seu universo ideológico (in Portuguese) Casa da Lygia Bojunga (in Portuguese) Brazilian children's writers Brazilian women writers Brazilian women children's writers Portuguese-language writers Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winners Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing winners 1932 births Living people People from Pelotas