The Portuguese artist Catarina Silva won the new edition of the Pingo Doce Children’s Literature Prize, in the illustration category, with a visual proposal for the story “The Withered Grandpa”by Daniela Leitão, the organization announced this Thursday.
The Children’s Literature Prize has a monetary value of 50,000 euros it will be divided equally between the authors of the text and the illustration, and the winners will be announced in two phases: first the text and then the illustration. In addition to the cash prize, the the winners will also see the work published.
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After Daniela Leitão won, last May, the text category of the prize, with “O Avô Minguante”, the jury has now awarded the prize in the illustration aspect, to the author Catarina Silva, 26 years old.
The jury praised “an original graphic language with an interesting level of maturity”Y “the option for a composition style that is close to cinematographic framing”.
Catarina Silva, born in Lisbon in 1996, has a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, she also has training in illustration and set design and costumes, and works with ceramics. She is the author of an illustrated album “Where a mountain fits”, unpublished, unpublished.
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The jury was made up of André Carrilho, Bernardo P. Carvalho, Eduardo Côrte-Real, Marta Madureira and Sara Miranda.
in this edition two honorable mentions in illustration were also awarded to the works proposed by Manuela Peixoto and Margarida Ferreira.
The book “O Avô Minguante”, which will be published in November, stands out for its “beauty of the relationship portrayed between the child character and the grandfather”addressing questions about aging and death, the jury highlighted, in May, when it distinguished Daniela Leitão.
By bringing to children’s literature a subject that is not easy, the author elegantly and constructively addresses readers, older and younger,” said the jury.
This is the literary award of highest value in Portugal, in the area of children’s books.
In 2021, the award went to the story “Like you”written by Raquel Salgueiro and illustrated by Jorge Margarido.
In previous editions, the prize allowed the publication, among others, of “Lecturas y papillas”, by António Martins and Duarte Carolino, “O protest do lobo mau”, by Maria Leitão and Pedro Velho, and “O narciso com pelos”. on the nose”, by Andreia Pereira and Ana Granado.
Source: Observadora
