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Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year announced its list of winners

on Mar 23, 2022

Established by the Bologna Children's Book Fair in collaboration with AIE - the Italian Publishers Association and IPA - International Publishers Association, the BOP - Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year is aimed at awarding the best children's publishers at an international level.

The prize is awarded by the publishers themselves, called to vote for those publishing houses that have distinguished themselves most for innovation, creativity, and quality of editorial choices in each of the six areas of the world.

Here are the winners of the BOP 2022:

Africa: New Africa Books, South Africa

Asia: Samir Éditeur, Lebanon

Central & South America: El Naranjo, Mexico

Europe: Liels un mazs, Latvia

North America: Monsieur Ed, Canada

Oceania: Beatnik Publishing, New Zealand

AFRICA

For Africa, the winner is New Africa Books, from South Africa: composed of two publishing brands, New Africa Books curates a catalog of titles published in all the languages of South Africa and pays particular attention to the cultural development of children and young people. New Africa Books is a small publishing house that operates with philosophy in contrast to the model that pervades much of the South African industry: its goal is to find gaps in the book market and fill them with beautiful and meaningful works.

ASIA

Samir Éditeur, from Lebanon, is the winner for the Asian continent: born from Librairie Samir, founded in 1947 in the heart of Beirut, Samir Éditeur (so renamed in 2004) is a publishing house specializing in school and university texts that offer effective pedagogy promoting cultural openness, and placing the student at the center of his or her learning. In addition to these, it publishes books for children and teenagers aged 2 to 15 - albums, short stories, or dissemination - which combine humor, culture, and original illustrations.

EUROPE

For Europe, he won the Liels un mazs prize, from Latvia. Since its founding in 2004, the publishing house has sought to develop and enrich the Latvian children's book industry, to create an alternative in offering books both in terms of book content (with high-quality texts and modern illustrations. ) and as regards innovative design and printing solutions, which testify to a refined literary and visual taste.

NORTH AMERICA

For North America is Canadian Monsieur Ed, the 2022 winner: Monsieur Ed is an independent publishing house specializing in children's literature. He prefers stories set in particular worlds, where reality and fantasy coincide. Universal stories that can inspire introspection and reflection. Although fiction is at the heart of his catalog, Monsieur Ed also publishes non-fiction and graphic novels.

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

For Central and South America the winner is El Naranjo, Mexico. Founded in 1994, it is a publishing house that started publishing books for children and teenagers in 2003. It has edited more than one hundred titles of fiction, poetry, art, history, nature, and classical literature, always looking for a playful approach. Its primary objective is to build it's own aesthetic to contribute to the formation of critical and creative readers, through works that stimulate their sensitivity and interest, addressing themes with which they can identify or that arouse new reflections.

OCEANIA

For Oceania, the winner is Beatnik Publishing, from New Zealand. The Independent publishing house, in the last fifteen years Beatnik Publishing has enriched the New Zealand publishing landscape thanks to a careful look at quality and beauty. Beatnik works closely with local authors, poets, artists, and businesses to create books with a refined design and rich content.