![]() ![]() 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. ![]() He was survived by his wife, the artist Nulle Øigaard, and by his four children: Tine and Tune from his first marriage, filmmaker Lasse Spang Olsen and Martin Spang Olsen from his marriage to Øigaard. ![]() His memorial service was held at the Marienborg Chapel on 23 January. Olsen died in Copenhagen following a short illness on 15 January 2012, at the age of 90. From 1952 to 1961 he taught at Bernadotteskolen. He then enrolled in the Copenhagen Art Academy and the Graphic School, where he studied from 1945 to 1949. He first worked as a cartoonist in 1942 for the Hjemmets Søndag section of the Social-Demokraten, a trade union newspaper (now the Aktuelt). ![]()
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