Danish Ministry of Culture's Children's Book Award

The Ministry of Culture's Children Book Award (Danish: Kulturministeriets Forfatterpris for Børne- og Ungdomsbøger, or simply Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) is an award given in order to honor a special effort for a Danish children's or youth book of high artistic quality. The award can be given either for a single title or for a whole work of an author. Along with the honor follows DKK 30,000, which partially comes from the "tipsmidler", money onwed by the Danish gambling organization Danske Spil, as it is customary in Denmark for 66.44% of the money from gambling in games like lottery go towards cultural work and various kinds of charities. In 2011 the "tipsmidler" gave a 1.5 billion Danish kroner profit which the government ministries must give to charitable purposes.

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