Taipei, March 7 (CNA) Taiwan has sent its largest-ever delegation of publishers and had several local works selected for prestigious exhibits at the 2023 Bologna Children's Book Festival (BCBF), an annual children's publishing event that opened on Monday.
Graphic novels take top prizes at Taipei book fair awards
12/15/2020 10:02 PM
The winning books. CNA photo Dec. 15, 2020
Taipei, Dec. 15 (CNA) Two graphic novels about a man in a psychiatric hospital and the daily lives of nine women in Taipei won top prizes at the 2021 Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) Book Prize on Tuesday, the first time graphic novels have won in the fiction and non-fiction categories.
The graphic novel A Trip to Asylum by Pam Pam Liu is set in the 1990s, and follows a man as he is admitted to and eventually released from a psychiatric hospital.
At the awards ceremony, Liu said the story is one she thought about for more than 10 years and was inspired by news and books she read, as well as her own childhood.
TIBE Book Prize winners named
ANNUAL ACCOLADES: A presentation ceremony for the awards is to be held on Jan. 26 at the opening of next year’s Taipei International Book Exhibition, which runs until Jan. 31
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
The Taipei Book Fair Foundation yesterday announced the winners of its annual awards, with graphic novels simultaneously receiving top honors in the fiction and nonfiction categories for the first time.
Ahead of the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) each year, the foundation unveils the winners of its TIBE Book Prizes, as well as the Golden Butterfly Awards for book design.
This year’s exhibition was held online for the first time after the event was postponed from February to May, and then canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.