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<\/figure>\nThis year\u2019s winner has been recognised for the originality and strong potential of its story and illustration: \u201cOur chosen project, \u201cThe End Fixer,\u201d is a very original story. It features a quite idealistic narrator of the story explaining his\/her dissatisfaction with the endings of stories. He\/she waxes lyrical about the unlimited possibilities of stories, but, meanwhile, along comes some behind-the-scenes staff who are more pragmatic and are just trying to end the story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\u201cThere is a strong dynamic, there is tension around the ending, where two sides are arguing over the nature of the ending and there is opportunity for a narrative twist on every page leading to the end. It is original, funny and has strong potential. The artwork too is very strong and we were sure that this is a very competent illustrator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\u201cOne of our favourite things about the medium of picture books is that there can be a tension or miss-match between image and text. The text says one thing but the pictures say another. We think this makes a very strong picture book and children especially love the humour that comes from this. This story makes use of this very well and with a little editing has the potential to crank this up a few notches.\u201d <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n While going through all the projects, they found a number of good quality submissions that could not go unnoticed. In regards to the honorable mentions, the jury adds: \u201cWe chose to highlight a few other projects because they all caught our eye and we felt they also could also make strong books. We also wanted to encourage these author-illustrators who narrowly missed out on the prize this time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n The jury of this second edition included Chris Haughton, author\/illustrator; Bernardo P. Carvalho, in representation of the publisher Planeta Tangerina; and Paula Estorninho, representing the Serpa Municipality.<\/p>\n\n The winning author of the Serpa Prize will finalize the book in close collaboration with Planeta Tangerina. \u201cThe Endfixer\u201d will be part of Planeta Tangerina\u2019s catalogue and will be released by May 2018.<\/p>\n\n Congratulation to the awarded authors and thank you to all participants!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For this 2nd edition of the International Serpa Picturebook Prize, the jury has selected \u201cThe Endfixer\u201d by Noemi Vola (Italy) as the winner. Additionally, three other entries have also been given honorable mentions: \u201cPicnic\u201d, by Maria Ramos Bravo (Spain); \u201cBoleia\u201d (Ride), by Guilherme Frederico Karsten (Brazil) and \u201cAn Ideal Zoo\u201d, by \u201cYiting Lee\u201d (Taiwan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,26],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-19182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-en-2","category-uncategorized","tag-serpa-award"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.planetatangerina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fim-maqueta-4-1024x768.jpg\")
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