THE Philippine Board on Books for
Young People (PBBY) will give the grand prize award of the 2020 PBBY-Alcala
Prize to illustrator Victoria Melissa R. Tadiar during the 37th National
Children’s Book Day (NCBD) celebration on July 21, 2020.
Tadiar won for her illustrations
based on Boon Kristoffer Lauw’s chapter book, Team Abangers at ang Estilong
Trumpo. Lauw won the grand prize at the
2020 PBBY-Salanga Prize, the first time the competition was opened to chapter
books.
A full-time IT professional who
works on comics and illustrations in her free time, Tadiar won the Komiket Best
Komiks Award in 2017 for her Filipiniana fantasy comic SAGALA, which was released
as a self-published graphic novel in 2019.
Her current project, Twinkle, Twinkle, is an Official Selection finalist
at the First Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF). She is also a
new member of Ang InK (Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan), the only professional
organization of children’s illustrators.
The 2020 PBBY-Alcala Prize and
PBBY-Salanga Prize winners will also receive cash prizes amounting to 25,000
pesos each (subject to tax). The
aforementioned cash prizes will be given by the Cultural Center of the
Philippines (CCP) as an expression of its support to visual and literary
artists for children in the Philippines.
The CCP and the Philippine Board
on Books for Young People (PBBY) celebrate NCBD every third Tuesday of July to
commemorate the anniversary of the publication of Jose Rizal’s rendition of the
folk tale The Monkey and the Turtle in the July 1889 issue of Trubner’s
Oriental Record in London. Former CCP
President and National Artist, Lucresia Kasilag was one of the founders of PBBY.
For inquiries about the contest,
contact the PBBY secretariat at secretariat@pbby.org.ph.(PR)
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