Deadline
Who may enter
The competition is open to anyone.
Short description
The competition is organized by the Department of Education of the City Council of Santiago de Compostela, in collaboration with KALANDRAKA, a publishing company based in Spain.
Entrants are asked to submit a project of picture book: a book in which the story is told through images, or through images and text that complement each other.
The books may be presented in any of the official languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Galician, Catalan, Basque, Castilian Spanish and Portuguese), and must be original and unpublished.
The projects may be presented in any size, technique and format, but may not contain any more than 40 inner pages.
Previous winners
CÁNDIDO AND EVERYBODY ELSE Fran Pintadera (text), Christian Inaraja (illustration)
SIMON’S VEGETABLE GARDEN Rocío Alejandro
Entry fees
The competition is free to enter.
Prize
The winner will receive a cash prize of 9,000 €. The prize money will not be paid until the author or authors deliver the completed work ready for publication.
The prize-winning work will be published by the Kalandraka in November 2022.
Competition website
For further information visit the official competition website.