Wellington
based children's publisher Gecko Press has won the 'Bologna Prize for
the Best Children's Publisher of the Year in Oceania' at a ceremony last night
in the 250 year-old Teatro Communale, the famous Bologna Opera House. The
awards were initiated this year as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of
the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
The
awards went to publishers in each region of Europe, Africa, Asia,
central-South America, North America and Oceania, for courageous and
innovative publishing in the past year.
Exhibitors
at the Bologna Children's Book Fair voted for the winners.
Publisher
Julia Marshall was honored to receive the award. "We are
very grateful to all the originating publishers of the books we
choose to translate for our list, and to all our very special Gecko Press
authors, illustrators and publishing team. We are
extraordinarily proud to be recognized for publishing curiously good
children's books, as we enter our eighth year in publishing."
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