The results of the illustration contest of the 8th Book Illustration Festival "BookILL Fest"

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About 1700 illustrations from 27 countries of the world, including Serbia, arrived at the online illustration contest of the 8th Book Illustration Festival "BookILL Fest". The jury composed of Slobodan Ivkov (president), Sibila Petenji Arbutina and Senka Vlahović selected the illustrations by 120 authors for the exhibition and awarded authors from five countries in the categories of poetry and prose books, books for children and books illustrated with photographs. Award ceremony and opening of the exhibition will take place on May 25, 2019, at 13:00 at the Gallery of the Banat Cultural Center in Novo Milosevo, Serbia (adress: Jna 35, Novo Milosevo).

In addition to the exhibition of selected illustrations, a guest exhibition "Serbian Illustrators at the Biennial Illustration of Bratislava 2003–2017" 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). Director of "Bibiana" Peter Tvrdonj will speak about the exhibition.

Aleksa Jovanović (Serbia), award


Book Illustration Festival "BookILL Fest" is held for the eight time, organized by the Banat Cultural Center and the Novi Sad Fair. 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)

„BookILL Fest“ 2018. Online Exhibition you can see here


Victoria Fomina (Russia), special prize


The jury made the following decision on the prizes:

AWARD for the best illustration of the BOOK FOR CHILDREN
Aleksa Jovanović (Serbia)
for illustrations of the book Friends from Savanna (Prijatelji iz savane), author: Nikoleta Novak, publisher:  Pčelica”, Čačak, Serbia, 2018.

AWARD for the best illustration of the POETRY BOOK
Anamarija Vartabedijan (Serbia)
for illustrations of the book The star of my dream – Neno Belan (Zvijezda moga sna – Neno Belan), author: Anamarija Vartabedijan (project)

AWARD for the best illustration of the FICTION BOOK
Stefan Georgescu (Romania)
for illustrations of the book Coffee Haus, author: Stefan Georgescu (project)

AWARD for the best photo-illustration of the BOOK
Ana Petrović (Serbia)
for illustrations of the book Kowloon/Kowloon,  author: Anja Marković, publisher:  Serbian Cultural Center Danilo Kiš, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2017.

SPECIAL PRIZE
Victoria Fomina (Russia)
for original illustrations of the book for children „Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, („Приключения Алисы в Стране чудес”), author: Lewis Carroll (Лью́ис Кэ́рролл), (project)

SPECIAL PRIZE
Tijana Knežević (Srbija)
for illustrations of the book House on the Tree (Kućica na drvetu), author: Bjanka Picorno, publisher: Odiseja”, Belgrade, Serbia, 2018.

SPECIAL PRIZE
Milena Vasojević (Serbia)
for an innovative approach to illustrating the book-calendar Little Story of the Big Moon (Mala priča o velikom Mesecu) (project)

SPECIAL PRIZE
Jefimija Kocić (Serbia)
for innovative illustrations in the form of QR codes for the book Vila Rosa, author: Violeta Jović (project)          

SPECIAL PRIZE
Miroslav Hraško (Serbia)
for the original naive-painterly approach to the illustration of a book for children Pea Boy: Mirko Hraško paints Janko Hraško (Chlapček z hrášku: Mirko Hraško maľuje Janka Hraška.), publisher: Buvik, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2018.

SPECIAL PRIZE
Kristof  Devos (Belgium)
for original illustrations of the book for children “Max makes a friend”, (Max maakt een vriend”), author: Claudia Jong, publisher: “De Eenhoorn”, Wielsbeke, Belgium, 2018.

SPECIAL PRIZE
Alekos (Alexis Forero) (Colombia)
for innovative fingerprint illustrations for the book for children Rapito and Sapon” („Rapito y Sapón”), author: Alecos (Alexis Forero), publisher: Panamericanana Editorial, Bogota, Colombia, 2017.


AUTHORES OF ILLUSTRATIONS SELECTED FOR THE EXHIBITION

SERBIA
Anđelkovic, Mladen
Batajić Sretenović, Olivera
Borković, Tošo
Branović, Marija
Dragaš, Nikola
Grigorjev, Ana
Hraško, Miroslav
Jevđović, Danica
Jovanović, Aleksa
Jovanović, Smiljka
Katanić, Stefan
Kicušić, Marica
Knežević, Tijana
Kocić, Jefimija
Komnenić, Dušanka 
Krivokuća, Jovana
Krstić, Igor
Krstić, Slaviša
Kuprešanin, Dragana
Lakićević, Dušan
Markalova Romanovna, Olga
Marković, Ivana
Mihajlović, Biljana
Miljković, Biljana
Milovanović, Kosta
Miočinović Andrić, Magdalena
Mišković, Nevena 
Nikolić, Dragana
Novakov, Goran 
Pejković, Jovana
Petrović, Ana
Radanovic, Dragana
Radosavljević, Nikola
Radovanović, Vujadin
Ristić, Nemanja
Rituper, Aleksandar
Serafimović, Nada
Simonović, Aleksandar
Spasić, Aleksandar
Štetić, Bogdan
Stevanović, Tanja
Stojanović, Bojana
Stojanović, Danica
Takačova, Jarmila
Tilinger, Luka 
Valenćikova, Emilija
Varga, Emilia
Vartabedijan, Anamarija
Vasojević, Milena
Veselinović, Marija Maja
Veselinović, Marina
Vlahović, Jugoslav
Vojnović, Mihajlo
Vukmanović, Tamara

RUSSIA
Atletova, Varvara
Dudkina, Ann
Filatova, Sasha
Fomina, Victoria
Khitrova, Anastasiya 
Laponkina, Tatiana
Mikhalina, Ekaterina
Mikhalskaya, Maria
Nabokova,Lena 
Negoda, Alina
Nikonorova, Lisa
Olga, Nikonova
Shakhuro, Tatiana
Shumkova, Katia
Stakhnova, Valentina
Stepanycheva, Sofi
Tsepilova, Galya 
Tsepilova, Vera 
Yasakova, Evgeniya
Zgoda, Masha 

ROMANIA
Anghel, Raluca
Burcă, Raluca
Cepleanu, Diana Margareta
Chitac, Georgiana
Dragan, Corina
Georgescu, Stefan
Karda, Zenkő
Lemnaru, Ana-Maria
Olaru, Ionut
Paraschivu, Mihaela
Smarandache, Anca

BRASIL
Manzo, Maurizio
Pacheco Schubach, Taline
Pimentel, Marcelo

SPAIN
Cerro Rico, Miguel
Serra, Adolfo
Vivanco, Sylvia 

SLOVENIA
Bricelj, Suzi
Musil K., Manica
Spacal, Alenka

TURKEY
Göknil, Can  
Yılmaz, Burcu

LATVIA
Briede, Ruta
Vaivare, Anna

ITALY
Cunja, Erika 
Trimboli, Manuela

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Durmišević, Edin
Marjanović, Jovana
Omić, Damir

CHINA
XU, Yu’an

SOUTH AFRICA
Blankenaar, Dale

FRANCE
Ladecka, Anna

MEXICO
Ríos Rodríguez, Claudia Esmeralda

LITHUANIA
Itagaki, Lina

COLOMBIA
Forero, Alexis

BULGARIA
Kaneva, Kapka

NETHERLANDS
Te Loo, Sanne

MONTENEGRO
Bojat, Vjekoslav
Vujošević, Ivana

POLAND
Jagoda, Marianna

IRAN
Amehkan, Hassan

CZECH REPUBLIC
Šlajch, Václav

CROATIA
Vladić-Maštruko, Manuela

MACEDONIA
Jovanovska, Ana 

BELGIUM
Devos, Kristof 

PORTUGAL
João Vaz de Carvalho 

ISRAEL
Shimon, Diana