Making the Klaus Flugge Prize

“The quality of books I’ve published over the years has been bloody good!” Andersen Press's Klaus Flugge tells it like it is. I interviewed him for the Association of Illustrators to find out about his career and what drove him to launch the Klaus Flugge Prize for new picture books

Although Klaus had felt he couldn’t call his publishing house after himself (it was finally named after Hans Andersen – “I was conscious that a lot of British people preferred home-grown names, ones they could pronounce”) it made sense that the Prize was called after its founder. “Everyone said, ‘Oh, call it the Klaus Flugge Prize’, and it was my own personal money I put in there, so why not?”

He talks more about some of the famous names he's published, and why it was time for a new picture book prize here https://ht.ly/VZTS30irYed