Winners
of the awards and special prizes at the international "BookILL fest"
illustration contest: Josep Antoni Tàssies from
Spain, Nina Poliak from Russia, Kapka Kaneva from Bulgaria, Jugoslav Vlahović
and others awarded from Serbia, have confirmed that they will attend the festival
and personally receive the awards.
Awards
and special prizes for the best illustrations of books based on the contest of
The 7th Book Illustration Festival "BookILL fest" will be awarded
on Saturday, June 2, at 12 am at the Gallery of the Banat Cultural Center in
Novo Milosevo. On this occasion, a guest exhibition of "Bibiana" from
Bratislava (represented by Marian Potrok) will be opened, as well as an
exhibition of selected and awarded works of "BookILL fest".
About 1500 illustrations
from 26 countries of the world, including Serbia, arrived at the online
illustration contest of the 7th Book Illustration Festival
"BookILL Fest". The jury
composed of Slobodan Ivkov (president), M.A. Sibila Petenji Arbutina and M.A. Senka
Vlahović selected the illustrations by 120 authors for the exhibition and
awarded authors from eight countries in the categories of poetry and prose
books, books for children and books illustrated with photographs.
The jury made the following decision on the
prizes:
AWARD for the best illustration of the BOOK FOR CHILDREN
Nina Poliak (Russia)
for illustrations of the book „Fox Omen” (project)
AWARD for the best illustration of the
POETRY BOOK
Tàssies (Spain)
for illustrations of
the book „If” („An”,), author: Agathí Dimitrouka, publisher: „Kaleidoscope
Publications”, Athens, Greece, 2018.
AWARD for the best illustration of the FICTION BOOK
Aleksa Gajić (Serbia)
for illustrations of
the book „Kliment and Naum: through the fire to Cyrillic”, author: Slobodan
Stanišić, publisher: „Pčelica”, Čačak, Serbia, 2017.
AWARD for the best foto-illustration of the BOOK
Kapka Kaneva (Bulgaria)
for illustrations of
the books:
– „Walking on
fingers” („Ходене на пръсти”), author: Željko Ivanković (Желко Иванкович),
publisher: „Panorama Publishers” Sofia, Bulgaria, 2016, and
– „Before the devil
takes me away” („Предi да ме е отнесъл дяволът”), author: Stevan Tontić (Стеван
Тонтич), publisher: „Ergo”, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2017
SPECIAL PRIZE
Jugoslav Vlahović (Serbia)
for
an illustration author's project „Flower power: drawing anti-war post-hippie
utopia”, publisher: „New Moment New Ideas Company”, Belgrade, Serbia. 2018.
SPECIAL PRIZE
Miroslav Cipar (Slovakia)
for illustrations of the poetry book „A fleck” („Škvrny”), author: Katarina Mosnakova-Bagľašova,
publisher: Banat Cultural Center, Novo Miloševo, Serbia, 2018.
SPECIAL PRIZE
Kosta Milovanović (Serbia)
for illustrations of the book for children„Mrnjavčevići”,
author: Pop D. Đurđev, publisher: „Pčelica”, Čačak, Serbia, 2017.
SPECIAL PRIZE
Ekatarina Šoronda (Serbia)
for
tactile illustrations for the blind and visually impaired children in the book „Sea
animals” (project)
SPECIAL PRIZE
Dale Blankenaar (South Africa)
for illustrations of
the poetry book „Rhymes for Young and Toddler” („Rympies vir Kleintjies en
Kleuters”), authors: Riana Scheepers, Suzette Kotze-Myburgh, Gertie Smit, publisher:
„Tafelberg Publishers”, South Africa, 2017.
SPECIAL PRIZE
Lena Guberman (Israel)
for illustrations of
the book „My Book Of Dreams”, author: Sarit Eliahu, publisher: „Am Oved
Publishers”, Israel, 2016 .
SPECIAL PRIZE
Biljana Mihajlović (Serbia)
for
a single illustration from the book „Cloud collector” (project)
SPECIAL PRIZE
Erika Cunja (Italy)
for illustrations of
the book „The watering” („L'innaffiatoio”), publisher: „Valentina edizioni”,
Italy, 2016.
In addition to the exhibition of selected illustrations,
a guest exhibition "Awards of the Biennial
of Illustration Bratislava 2017" will be opened, too (in cooperation
with the International House of Art for Children "Bibiana" from
Bratislava (Slovakia) and Foundation "Babka" Gallery from Kovačica (Serbia)).
The exhibition contains illustrations of books for children from the previous
biennial that received prizes in competition with thousands of illustrations
from 50 countries around the world. Authors on this exhibition: Ludwig Volbeda
(Netherlands), Narges Mohamadi (Iran), Maki Arai (Japan), Ji-min Kim (South
Korea), Ana Desnitskaya (Russia), Daniela Olejníková (Slovakia), Hanne
Bartholin (Denmark), Ofra Amit (Israel), Mirocomachiko (Japan), Israel Barrón (Mexico),
Romana Romanyshin, Andryi Lesiv (Ukraine), Peter Uchnár (Slovakia), Svetozár
Košický (Slovakia), Dušan Kállay (Slovakia).
Book Illustration Festival "BookILL
Fest" is held for the seventh time, organized by the Banat Cultural Center
and the Novi Sad Fair. The festival has been expanded this year - in addition
to the festival program traditionally holding place in Novi Sad - for the first
time program will take place in Novo Milosevo, too. The first part of the
festival program was held in March this year at the Book Fair in Novi Sad.
(More about the program held in Novi Sad you can see here)
The exhibition of selected and awarded illustrations that will be opened on
June 2 in Novo Milosevo will be exhibited at and at the next Book Fair in Novi
Sad in March 2019.
PROGRAM
of "BOOKILL FEST"
Banat
Cultural Center, June 2, 2018, 12:00
- Radovan Vlahovic, director of the Banat
Cultural Center
- Senka Vlahovic, founder and director of
"BookILL fest"
- Marian Potrok, BIB Secretariat,
"Bibiana", Bratislava
- Sibila Petenji Arbutina, member of the jury
- Slobodan Ivkov, president of the jury
- the jury awards the prizes (the arrival was
confirmed by: Josep Antoni Tàssies,
Kapka Kaneva, Nina Poliak, Jugoslav Vlahović, Kosta Milovanović, Biljana
Mihajlović, Vladimir Valentic on behalf of Miroslav Cipar, Ekatarina Šoronda)
LIST
OF AUTHORES OF ILLUSTRATIONS SELECTED FOR THE EXHIBITION available here