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

