According to the official website of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair (BCBF), from March 21 to 24, the 2022 Bologna International Children's Book Fair (BCBF) will be held at the Bologna Exhibition Center in Italy, which is also the first time since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic that this exhibition will usher in an offline physical book fair, and the exhibition will be held at the same time as the Italian Bologna Licensing Exhibition (BLTF/Kids) and the Bologna International Book Summit and Exhibition (BBPlus) in Italy.
Image from the official website of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair.
Bologna International Children's Book Fair said in a statement on its official website that more than 1,000 exhibitors from 85 countries will participate in the exhibition. "Much more than we expected," revealed Elena Pasoli, director of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, with representatives from all continents in attendance, "and the industry's reaction was astonishing." Of course, we feel very heavy on what is happening in the world at the moment, and we have to accept the fact that Ukrainian and Russian publishers are absent, which is very sad. ”
Prior to this, Elena Pasoli had said that the exhibition "will not change the plan to continue to invite Russian publishers", she once said: "We will not blame publishers solely because of the ongoing conflict, we stand with publishers in various countries around the world, including Ukraine, including our book industry colleagues in Russia, who will find themselves in an extremely difficult and painful situation at this time." ”
As one of the most important awards of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair, the winners of the 2022 Bologna Ragazzi Award were announced in late February and will be awarded during the exhibition. Among them, the first prize in the Fiction category is Mario Brassard and Gérard Dubois co-authored "Where Do clouds come from?" (qui appartiennent les nuages?), the first prize for non fiction is Julie Roberge, Aless MC," monstres sacrés - Voyage au ur des volcans (Sacred Monsters – Voyage au ur des volcans), Opera Prima's first prize was "Les reflets d'Hariett" by Marion Kadi.
Fiction Award First Prize "Where Do Clouds Come From?" 》。
The Comics Award for lower and middle divisions for "Welcome to Bienvenue à Bibiville" by ponine Cottey, the first prize for the upper middle and upper category for Teatro di natura by Michelangelo Setola, and the first prize for the junior category for Isabella Polly by Isabelle Pralong and Fabrice Melquiot.
The first prize in the lower and middle categories of the Comic Book Award, "Welcome to Bibiville".
Each year, the jury will also select a particularly innovative work to award to New Horizons, and this year's winner is Luīze Pastore's Laimes bērni. It is worth mentioning that the bologna best children's book awards will also set at least one award with special attention to the theme every year. The 2022 special focus on poetry is once again focused on poetry in recognition of the large number of outstanding poetry children's books published in recent years, with the inaugural prize being Immenses sont leurs ailes by Maurielle Szac and Nathalie Novi.
New Horizons Award-winning work "Happy Kids".
As is customary, all winning books will be stored in the Municipal Library of Bologna along with the winning works of previous years. In addition, this year, a special exhibition area will be added , Braw Bmazing Bookshelf , throughout the exhibition, in addition to exhibiting the first prize and special nomination of each category, the jury will also select 100 excellent books from the shortlisted works in each category to display on the spot. According to the organizers, it also includes original children's book works from China.
Author 丨He An'an
Edited by 丨Rodong
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