INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE,OSAKA<Reasons for the Presentation of the Award>
Clare Bradford, Emeritus Professor of Deakin
University, has made signif icant contributions
to children’s literature scholarship not only
through her excellent award-winning research
publications but also her exceptional leadershipand service to the international children’sliterature community.
She has made ground-breaking contributions tothe field, leading with research into new areas
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multiculturalism,colonialismandpostcolonialism. Her work focuses on Australian
Aboriginal texts and more broadly on the themeof indigeneity, with reference to eco-criticism and the environment, transnationalism,girlhood and the medievalisms in children’s literature.
Her book Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children’s Literature(University of Melbourne Press, 2001) won the International Research Society forChildren’s Literature Award and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award.
Her 2007 monograph Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’sLiterature (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) won the Children’s Literature
Association Honor Book Award in 2008. It is her most cited work, and established
her as a leading international authority in postcolonial and indigenous studies. Her2015 monograph The Middle Ages in Children’s Literature (Palgrave Macmillan)
won the Children’s Literature Association Book Award in 2016.
Through her numerous highly cited influential publications, Dr. Bradford has
demonstrated that she has the innovative capacity to utilize research paradigms
previously unseen in children’s literature research, notably through her work oncolonial and postcolonial textuality, utopianism, and creative approaches todiscourse analysis.
Not only is Dr. Bradford an outstanding academic, she is also a children’s book author.
Her creative works include Phillip and Jack the Monster (1992), Birthday Wishes

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE,OSAKA(1994), The Best of Friends (2004), The Story of Zadig (2004), and The Rare Bird(2004).
She was a long-time editor of Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature and iscurrently the joint editor of the Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature series(Palgrave Macmillan). In 2011, she was elected to be a Fellow of the AustralianAcademy of the Humanities, in recognition of the excellence and impact of her
scholarship in the Humanities. In 2014 Deakin University gave her the title of Alfred
Deakin Professor, the highest honour that the university can bestow on its staff.
Dr. Bradford has consistently promoted children’s literature research and supported
junior scholars in their research. She served as President of the International
Research Society for Children’s Literature from 2007 to 2011 and President of theAustralasian Children's Literature Association for Research from 1998 to 2002. She
has also been the keynote speaker, participant in plenary discussions and invited
guest speaker at major conferences, associations, and universities all around theworld.
Thus, her contribution to research in children’s literature internationally, heroutstanding and seminal work spanning a range of significant, cutting-edge topics,
and the influence she has had in the development of these fields of study, make her
a worthy recipient of the 19th International Brothers Grimm Award.