Submissions are now open for the Klaus Flugge Prize 2025.

This year sees the prestigious Klaus Flugge Prize celebrating its tenth year. The prize was launched in 2016 to honour publisher Klaus Flugge, a supremely influential figure in picture books. Awarded to the most promising and exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration, it supports new illustrators at the beginning of their careers as well as celebrating the art of picture book illustration in general.

Now aged 90, Klaus Flugge is still involved in the running of Andersen Press, which he founded in 1976.   Klaus is legendary for his ability to discover, grow and nurture new talent, and has launched the careers of many of today's most distinguished illustrators including David McKee, Chris Riddell, Satoshi Kitamura, Ruth Brown and Tony Ross.

Previous winners of the prize in his name are Nicholas John Frith, who won the inaugural prize with Hector and Hummingbird (Alison Green Books); Francesca Sanna who won in 2017 for The Journey (Flying Eye Books); Kate Milner who won the 2018 prize with My Name is Not Refugee (Barrington Stoke); Jessica Love who won in 2019 with Julian is a Mermaid (Walker Books); Eva Eland who won in 2020 for her book When Sadness Comes to Call (Andersen Press); Flavia Z Drago, 2021 winner for Gustavo the Shy Ghost (Walker Books); Joseph Namara Hollis, 2022 winner for Pierre’s New Hair (Tate Publishing), and Mariajo Ilustrajo who won in 2023 with Flooded (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books). Kate Winter won in 2024 with The Fossil Hunter (Puffin).

Publishers now have until the closing date, midnight 14 January 2025, to make their submissions. Eligible illustrators may have created book covers, or illustration for other media, or illustrated books in another genre - for example, poetry or fiction - but eligibility for the prize requires that this is their first illustrated picture book for children.

The book must have been first published on a children’s list in the UK between 1 January and 31 December 2024. Books first published in another country must have been co-published in the UK within three months of the original publication date.

The winner receives a cheque for £5,000.

The submission form and full criteria can be found at https://www.klausfluggeprize.co.uk/criteria/

For further information contact:

Andrea Reece

Administrator Klaus Flugge Prize

klausfluggeprize@gmail.com