Yet another well-deserved feather in the cap for the amazing graphic novel, Eagle, by Jeppe Sandholt. It has just been announced yesterday that he is nominated for The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize. The winner will be announced on the 21st October 2025.
Here's what the panel said about Jeppe and Eagle:
"Jeppe Sandholt has written and illustrated a tribute to imagination in all its complex variations. It is humorous, touching, and strikingly original. When you have an eagle as your confidant, you’re never alone. A modern fable cast into a fragmented, pixelated, and nearly (de)constructed world, where the animal still helps us understand ourselves and one another. The animal goes – or flies – its own way, just like Jeppe Sandholt does himself. In doing so, he sticks to precise storytelling and his own determination, with a visionary agenda: never to forget the untamed in the midst of the streamlined."
About the prize:
The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize was first awarded in 2013. The prize was born out of the long-standing desire of the Nordic ministers for culture to strengthen and highlight literature for children and young people in the Nordic Region.
The prize goes to a literary work for children and young people written in one of the Nordic languages. The work can combine text and images, and must meet high literary and artistic standards.
