
Lise Villadsen bestowed with School Libraries Author Award
Lise Villadsen and her YA-novel The Supermassive Black Hole Club has been bestowed with the high-profile Danish School Libraries Author Award of 2025 for ‘Book of the Year’.
The award is one of Denmark’s biggest accolades for children’s- and young adult literature and has been bestowed since 1981 to a writer that through their authorship has made an exceptional literary or non-fictional contribution to the experiences and/or knowledge of children and young adults. The award aims to celebrate the literature that truly makes a difference in schools. The nominated authorships are symbolized by a title released in the preceding year that must be of remarkable quality.
Before handing over the accolade during the award ceremony, the jury highlighted that:
“The Supermassive Black Hole Club is a novel, which largely revolves around identity and sense of community – and concepts such as commitment and sincerity.(…) Lise Villadsen has written a terrific book. (…) With loneliness as a starting point, the novel deals with the simple – but certainly not easy – art of having the courage to be yourself. But also to dare to let others in – and that whilst mistakes and white lies can turn out to open doors to others, the lies can also be a risky, knotty and dangerous path to choose.”