The award has previously honoured writers including Eimear McBride, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy.
The Astrid Lindgren prize was set up in 2002 by the Swedish government to honour writers, illustrators and story-tellers working in the spirit of Lindgren, whose best-known creation is Pippi Longstocking.
Other personalities honoured include writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie, athlete Jenny Meadows, football manager Roberto Martinez and pioneering heart surgeon Dr Nayyar Naqvi.
Here are some of the tributes, memories and anecdotes our readers shared to honour the writer.
The Man Booker Best of Beryl prize will honour a writer who, despite five shortlistings, never won the literary accolade.
The Man Booker International prize is awarded every two years to honour a writer's "achievement in fiction".
The prize was established to honour the writer's distinguished career as a literary critic for the Observer from the early 1960s until his death in 1993.
You can also lose yourself in the monastery's Borges labyrinth, a green maze created in the grounds to honour Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899 1986), who loved Venice.
It is the most prized literary award of all, an accolade that honours a writer's entire body of work and pits all living fiction authors published in the English language against each other.
"I truly don't understand why you think you are honouring a writer by picking a book you know is inferior to almost all the other books in the series," said a contributor called Jantar.
Internet users found creative ways to evade censorship, using the words "empty chair" to honour the writer, although some references soon disappeared from domestic microblogs, suggesting censors caught up.
