The Award

The Serpa International Award for Picturebooks is an initiative by the Serpa Town Council in partnership with the publisher Planeta Tangerina. This biennial award aims to develop the literary and artistic quality of the picturebook as a medium, while encouraging the creation of new projects in this area.

Submissions

All projects submitted to the competition must be original and unpublished. We value projects which, due to their creativity and technical execution, can be enjoyed by both children and adults.

Jury

The jury consists of one representative of Serpa Town Council, one representative of the publisher Planeta Tangerina, and one guest judge coming from the national or international illustration scene.

Jury for the 6th edition

Piotr Karski

Author (text and illustrations)

He graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and has twice been awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. He designs and writes books for children that are educational, but still fun.
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Among the awards and nominations he has received are: BolognaRagazzi Award 2024 Special Mention, the Most Beautiful Book for Children and Young People 2017 from the Polish Society of Book Publishers, and the Dapeng Nature Children's Book Award 2022. He was nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahre 2018 (Austrian Minister of Education, Science and Research).

He has conducted numerous workshops inspired by his books in Poland and abroad.
He is a big fan of out-of-the-box projects (including murals, sculptures, wooden toys), which allow him to try new things.

Photo: Dorota Proba

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Bernardo P. Carvalho

Author (text and illustrations)

Bernardo was born in 1973 in Lisbon, where he later studied Communication Design at the College of Fine Arts.

In 1999, he co-founded Planeta Tangerina — an independent publisher, mainly dedicated to picture books — having worked there ever since. Illustration and design are his focus, often for books for children and adolescents.

He has received numerous awards for his books and illustrations, starting with “Pê de Pai”, which received an Honourable Mention by the Best Book Design From All Over the World, in 2008.

Other accolades include: Bologna Ragazzi Awards; Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize; Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis; CJ Picture Book Festival prize; Portuguese National Illustration award; Banco del Libro prize. He has also been nominated for the IBBY Honor List.

Bernardo's books have been published in over 25 countries.

Paula Estorninho

Architect
Culture and Heritage Division of Serpa Town Council

Paula graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon, in 1994. From 1990 to 1993, Paula worked in the Technical Support Office in Beja. Since 1994, she has worked at the Serpa Town Council, where she has worked on projects such as the architectural conception of the Biblioteca Municipal Abade Correia da Serra.

Currently, she works within the Municipality's Culture and Heritage Division, where she monitors and promotes artistic and cultural initiatives, including the artistic expression workshops "Mãos na Massa", at the Serpa Library.

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