Bologna Announces Winners of its 2021 Ragazzi Awards
Ediciones Ekaré editor Adolfo Córdova wins, with Juan Palomino’s illustrations. And the jury provides four special mentions, as well.
From this year’s Bologna Ragazzi Prize winning poetry anthology with Juan Palomino’s illustrations. Image: Ediciones Ekaré
A Spanish Poetry Anthology Takes the Top Honor
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Publishing Perspectives readers know, Bologna Children’s Book Fair‘s annual Ragazzi Awards is an internationally popular contest for recognition in illustrated books, taking into account graphic design, innovation, and appeal to younger readers.
Today (May 27), the program has announced that editor Adolfo Córdova and illustrator Juan Palomino of the Caracas-based Ediciones Ekaré (which has offices in Santiago and Barcelona) are the 2021 winners of the Bologna Ragazzi Award.
Bologna Announces the Winner of its 2021 Ragazzi Awards
Ediciones Ekaré editor Adolfo Córdova wins, with Juan Palomino’s illustrations. And the jury provides four special mentions, as well.
From this year’s Bologna Ragazzi Prize winning poetry anthology with Juan Palomino’s illustrations. Image: Ediciones Ekaré
A Spanish Poetry Anthology Takes the Top Honor
As
Publishing Perspectives readers know, Bologna Children’s Book Fair‘s annual Ragazzi Awards is an internationally popular contest for recognition in illustrated books, taking into account graphic design, innovation, and appeal to younger readers.
Today (May 27), the program has announced that editor Adolfo Córdova and illustrator Juan Palomino of the Caracas-based Ediciones Ekaré (which has offices in Santiago and Barcelona) are the 2021 winners of the Bologna Ragazzi Award.
María José Ferrada and Elizabeth Bryer on Translating “How to Order the Universe”
The precocious seven-year-old protagonist of María José Ferrada’s picaresque novel
How to Order the Universe, referred to simply as “M,” is one of the most astute, enchanting, and affecting characters I have ever had the pleasure to translate. Her concept of the universe, which she cribs from a hardware catalog, is an astonishing metaphor. I won’t spoil the delight of encountering it in the book by detailing too much about it here, except to say that it is used throughout the novel to both comic and insightful effect that is, until the metaphor fails under the weight brought to bear on it by the Pinochet dictatorship, and M’s life is changed forever.