CENAL published the list of winners of the XII National Book Award

Published at: 06/09/2024 06:49 PM

The XII National Book Award (NLP), organized by the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture through the National Book Center (CENAL), between August 2023 and March 2024, already has its winners.

The information was published by CENAL, on its website, where it specified that the winning categories are Best Book; Collection or Series; Illustration; Innovative Format; Art Book; Craft Book; Book for People with Functional Diversity; Electronic or Digital Book; Children's and Youth Book; Cover Design; Poster; Site that promotes Books and Reading; and Production in audiovisual media.

In this edition, the NLP recognizes the publications produced and printed in Venezuela during the years 2021 and 2022, as well as the initiatives for the promotion of books and reading carried out in the country.

Here are the winners:

Best Book

The jury unanimously awarded the Best Book Award to the work Minutes, Certificates and Partidas. Notes for the study of the Civil Registry in Venezuela, stating that “it includes invaluable research that documents the exercise of the right to identity, the legitimacy of Venezuelan nationality and the progressive recognition of the human rights of the Venezuelan people.”

In addition, on this work, the verdict adds that “it offers reflections on the identification of native and mixed peoples through historical, geographical, legal, anthropological and administrative aspects, as well as surprising graphic testimonies, presented in an excellent editorial, layout and printing work”.

Collection or series

Cimarrona Historical Insurgences and Afroepistemologies Collection. As an editorial project of the Presidential Commission for the Clarification of Historical Truth, Justice and Reparation for Colonial Dominion and its Consequences in Venezuela, led by the Editorial Foundation The Dog and the Frog, it provides enlightening elements and new interpretations from a critical and decolonizing vision, providing the possibility of historical reconstruction and of discussion, analysis and reflection on the past from the perspective of the original peoples and people of African descent.

Illustration

Waika, the answer. It deals with sensitive issues such as female sexuality, sexism, discrimination, political violence, the evils of capitalism, among others, from the perspective of a feminist character (Waika) with a subtle and at the same time forceful feminist verb, developed by the author during her long career in the national press.

Innovative format

Miga and Da Capo, jazz singers, from Florencia Grillet. It is a beautiful children's work presented in printed format that contains a QR code that, when scanned, enters the user into a 14-minute track of short stories accompanied by music and images. An interesting combination of audio-visual print.

Art book

Miga and Da Capo, jazz singers. It is presented in full color printed format with striking illustrations for the little ones. Music, literature, printed and animated illustrations, combined with attention to important aesthetic details, become tools to stimulate creativity and children's imagination.

Handmade book

In three points. It is a compilation by the writer and reading promoter Yuri Patiño that brings together poems by students from Unearte in Mérida, presented in a simple but robust format bound “on horseback”.

Book for people with functional diversity

The Bear with the Glasses, by Elena Molina Morales. It is a children's book presented in a Braille writing system for blind children and the general public. The work represents an important example of inclusion and dedicated editing.

E-book or digital book

Diary of a Doll, by Carmen Delia Ben.

Mazo News Team