Art1st becomes the only Indian publisher to be shortlisted for the 2024 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year (BOP). This prize is awarded annually to highlight excellent publishing houses at the forefront of innovation from all over the world.
The prize, organized by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and AIE – Italian Publishers Association in partnership with IPA – International Publishers Association, awards those publishers who have most distinguished themselves for their professional and intellectual skills in each of the six areas of the world: Africa, Caribbean, Central and South America, North America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. At the same time, the prize is designed to foster a mutual exchange of knowledge and ideas among different countries, areas and cultural identities across the world.
The announcement of the winners will be held during BCBF 8-11 April 2024.
Here’s the 2024 shortlist:
AFRICA
- Ouida Books (Nigeria)
- Yanbow Al Kitab (Morocco)
- Masobe Books (Nigeria)
- Soma Nami Books (Kenya)
- Narrative Landscape Press (Nigeria)
ASIA
- Art1st (India)
- Poplar Publishing Co. (Japan)
- Beijing Yutian Hanfeng Books (China)
- Kinderland (Bandal) (South Korea)
- BookGoodCome (South Korea)
EUROPE
- Versant Sud Jeunesse (Belgium)
- Mosquito Books Barcelona (Spain)
- Edizioni EL (Italy)
- Baobab (Czech Republic)
- Les Fourmis Rouges (France)
CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA
- Cataplum Libros (Colombia)
- Libros Silvestres (Argentina)
- Solisluna Editora (Brazil)
- Ediciones Liebre (Chile)
- Muñeca de Trapo (Chile)
NORTH AMERICA
- Drawn & Quarterly Books (Canada)
- Greystone Kids (Canada)
- Lerner Publishing Group (USA)
- Red Comet Press (USA)
- Holiday House Publishing (USA)
OCEANIA
- Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (Australia)
- Affirm Press (Australia)
- Freemantle Press (Australia)
- Scholastic New Zealand (New Zealand)
- Huia Publishers (New Zealand)
Image Courtesy: Bologna Children’s Book Fair
