Author Meg Rosoff wins Sweden’s 2016 Lindgren prize

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Stockholm (dpa) – US author Meg Rosoff was Tuesday named winner of Sweden’s 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in literature for children and young people. Rosoff’s novels for young adults “speak to the emotions as well as the intellect,” the jury said, adding that her “brave and humorous stories are one-of-a-kind. She leaves no reader unmoved.”…