how much do i havea story about the relationship between grandchildren and grandparents Maite Gurrutxaga Otamendi and Mikel Gurrutxaga Otamendi, won first edition The Miguel Calatayud Villa de Aspe International Picture Album Award was jointly organized by this town’s city council and Ibi’s Degomagom publishing house.
The work of the Gurrutxaga Otamendi brothers from San Sebastian prevailed Among the 81 papers presented Spain and other countries participated in the competition, which was started to promote illustration. 6,000 euro prizeand what offers came Belgium, Colombia, Mexico or Brazil.
The jury’s decision was made on April 23, on the occasion of Book Day, and the highlights of the decision “link between text and images they also complement each other, pointing to an existing reality and offering multiple visions of it”.
“Thanks to studied compositions, bright colors and a perfect narrative rhythminvites individual and collective reflection of discussion and humorThe jury said, “The two main discursive sources in the album genre and they are very necessary when asking questions to the readers. Eva Vazquez Merinoillustrator; Roman Belmonte Andujarteacher and specialist in Children’s and Youth Literature; Grace Torres Rodriguezlibrarian at the Rubén Darío Municipal Library in Aspe; Octavio Ferrero Punzano is editor of Editorial Degomagom and Miguel Calatayud Cerdán is illustrator.
This sensitive and clever story is authored by Mikel Gurrutxaga Otamendi and the person responsible for the illustrations is Maite Gurrutxaga Otamendi, winner of the 2015 Lazarillo Award in the Illustrated Album category. martin, among others.
It was decided unanimously by underlining the quality of the selected finalist works. The winning work will be published by Degomagom this year.
This award Unique about this discipline located in the state of Alicante and also endorsed by the name of three-time National Illustration Award winner Miguel Calatayud, who is currently featured in an exhibition. Miguel Calatayud. image spacesIn the new cultural center of his hometown Aspe, which Aspense opened by visiting the works published in various publications during his fifty years of artistic work.