The 2023 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition Award has found its winners. The Jury, composed of 9 international experts—Suzanne Carnell (UK), Chen Sai (China), Marion Jablonski (France), Victo Ngai (US/Hong Kong,China), Wang Zumin (China) as Book Publishing juries, Ivan Canu (Italy), Victo Ngai (US/Hong Kong,China), Emiliano Ponzi (Italy), Tian Dongming (China) and Carrot Wu (China) as Commercial juries was reunited for a final round evaluation which took place in Shanghai during CCBF 2023.
It is among the 100 finalists that the Jury choose the below mentioned winners.
In the Book Publishing category, Liu Longsha (China) and Maeva Rubli (Switzerland) received the China and International Golden Pinwheel Grand Awards. Special Mentions were awarded to Amanda Mijangos / Armando Fonseca (Mexico), Fu Wenzheng (China), and Natalia Shaloshvili (UK). Additionally, Natalia Shaloshvili also receives the Golden Pinwheel Astra Award which is appointed by the sponsors of the Astra International Picture Book Writing Contest.
In the Commercial category, Cai Yidong (China) and Fernanda Massotti (Brazil) secured the China and International Golden Pinwheel Grand Awards. Special Mentions went to Polina Kalashnikova (Russia), Mu Hanyu (China) and Wang Minru (China).
Online and on-site voting awarded the Golden Pinwheel People’s Choice Award to Zhang Mingyan’s “The Little Giant” and Cyan Lin’s “What’s the Shape of Love” in the Book Publishing and Commercial categories. Both artists are from China.
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