The China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) is glad to announce the 66 Finalists selected in the 2024 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition. Those 66 shortlisted artworks are composed with 50 of Book Publishing Category and 16 of Commercial Category.
Already at its 9th edition, Golden Pinwheel aims to give recognition to young talented artists active in the field of children’s book illustration. Since 2023, the organising committee launched a new category—Commercial, in addition to the original submission category—Book Publishing, so as to encourage illustrators to demonstrate their commercial value through diversified forms of artistic expression, and to promote communication and cooperation with illustrators and brands, advertisers.
Throughout the summer, the Jury composed of 8 international experts—Yukiko Hiromatsu (Japan), Jon Klassen (USA), Morgane Vasta (France), Xiao Aozi (China),Yao Hong (China) as Book Publishing juries, Hadi Barkat (Switzerland), Giacomo Benelli (Italy), Tango (China) as Commercial juries —reviewed 2,584 entries using a shared online system and finalised their selection via digital conference.
From China to Italy, Russia to Iran, the finalists represent 19 countries and territories from six continents. This shows the sheering vitality of the global illustration arena. Also, we can’t but be filled with astonishment by the very young age of the shortlisted artists, the youngest finalist being just 22. Undoubtedly, the future of illustration is assured!
2024 Finalists (in alphabetical order):
Luisa F. Arellano, Mexico
Hadi Baghdadi, Iran
Daniela Berti, Italy
Elizabeth Builes Carmona, Columbia
Beatrice Cerocchi, Italy
Chen Tianle, China
Giovanni Colaneri, Italy
Reza Dalvand, Iran
Sviatlana Sofia Dzemidovich, Belarus
Natalya Elina, Russia
Lera Elunina, Russia
Olivia Feng, China
Armando Fonseca, Mexico
Hei Mi, China
Gosia Herba, Poland
Parvin Heydarizadeh, Iran
Hu Jiachun, China
Hua Zhangyi, China
Lee Se hyeon, South Korea
Jeouming Liu, China
Liu Longsha, China
Azul López, Mexico
Lu Bai, China
Aneta Lukianska, Poland
Jean Mallard, France
Amanda Itzel, Mexico
Alexandra Mîrzac, Romania
Fatima Ordinola, Peru
Irene Penazzi, Italy
Pauline Pete, Germany
David Sancho Novellón, Spain
Olesya Shchukina, Russia
Natalia Shaloshvili, UK
Oleksandr Shatokhin, Ukraine
Laura Simonati, Italy
Song Jiayin, China
Bruno Valasse, France
Wang Yingli, China
Wang Yiwen, China
Wang Zhen, China
Wang Zijia, China
Aurélie Wilmet, Belgium
Xue Ziqiong, China
Yu Ke, China
Yu Shiyu & Gao Jiayue, China
Yu Wan, China
Yuen Lok Ling, Hong Kong, China
Zhao Xinling, China
Zhou Xiaochuan, China
Zhu Qingzhi, China
Fan Linsen, China
Florencia Gavilan, Argentina
Line Hachem, France
LensforKids, China
Lu Linziyu, China
Luca Lu, China
Dina Melnikova, Belgium
Daniele Morganti, Italy
Ni Ni, China
Shi Xiaohe, China
Yulia Sirotina, Russia
Ekaterina Skvortsova Kowalski, Russia
Wang Yang, China
Audrey Yao, China
Zhang Jiayi, China
Zhang Yicong & Fu Tian, China
The finalists of 2024 Finalists Selection (in alphabetical order):
