Silent Book Contest

The Silent Book Contest – Gianni De Conno Award is the first international competition dedicated to silent books (picture books without words), with the first awards made in 2014.

The idea for this contest originally came from Italian artist Gianni De Conno, and since 2018 the prize has been named in his honour. A new category – the Silent Book Contest Junior – was introduced in 2020. The winners receive prize money as an advance for copyright with a publishing agreement. The winning books are published by Carthusa Edizioni. They are displayed annually at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.

The 2014 Silent Book Contest

Winner: "Bounce Bounce" by Brian Fitzgerald (Ireland)
Finalists:

• "Curious things inside" by Soojin Park (South Korea)
• "Gli alberi volano" by Gek Tessaro (Italy)
• "L’uovo di colombo" by Michele Braschi (Italy)
• "Orizzonti" by Paola Formica (Italy)
• "The Lady Bug race" by Amy Nielander (USA)
• "The last goodbye" by Yuan Pan (China)
• "The saber-toothed fly" by Manuel Cruz (Portugal)

The 2015 Silent Book Contest

Winner: "Mentre tu dormi" by Mariana Ruiz Johnson (Argentina)
Finalists:

• "Everybody need somebody" by Lizette Duvenage (Canada)
• "Il sogno di Marino" by Cecilia Ferri (Italy)
• "Pois" by Cristina Bazzoni (Italy)
• "The forest in me" by Adolfo Serra (Spain)
• "The giant bird" by Andreja Peklar (Slovenia)
• "The Hunter" by Lina Mumgaudyte (Lithuania)
• "Together" by Anna Kislistona (Estonia)

The 2016 Silent Book Contest

Winner: "Ciao ciao giocattoli" by Marta Pantaleo (Italy)
Finalists:

• "Blanca y el Dragon" by Yael Frankel (Argentina)
• "The orange thing" by Manuel Sumberac (Croatia)
• "Jaulas" by Sara Porras (Spain)
• "One previous owner" by Carly Gledhill (UK)
• "Nothing but an ordinary trip" by Ausra Kiudulaite (Lithuania)
• "Amazed" by Aleksandra Artymowska (Poland)

The 2017 Silent Book Contest

Winner: "R/Evolution" by Arianna Papini (Italy)
Finalists:

• "La prima volta di ogni cosa" by Alessandro Ferraro (Italy)
• "A night music" by Anna Griot (France)
• "Il principe azzurro e la principessa fuxia" by Riccardo Francavilla e Margherita Sgarlata (Italy)
• "What colours is happiness" by Krisztina Maros (Hungary)
• "City" by Federico Penco (Italy)
• "A Day Alone" by Anat Warshavsky (Israel)
• "On my way home" by Vlada Soshkina & Polina Doroshenko (Ukraine)

The 2018 Silent Book Contest – Gianni De Conno Award

Winner: "Immagina" by Anastasiia Suvorova (Russia)
Finalists:

• "Take one pass it on" by Carly Gledhill (UK)
• "Shell" by Jimena Carranza (Mexico)
• "Rumore" by Luca Ralli (Italy) – Buy here
• "Lanterne" by Camilla Pintonato (Italy)
• "Concerto" by Nelleke Verhoeff (Netherlands)
• "I am King" by Sandra Rilova (Spain)
• "La val* * " by Angelo Ruta (Italy)
• "Encou* er" by Seoha Lim (South Korea)

The 2019 Silent Book Contest - Gianni De Conno Award

Winner: "Costruttori di stelle" by Soojin Kwak (South Korea)
Finalists:

• "Petit Indi" by Mercè Galì Sanarau (Spain)
• "Love" by Nella Gatica (Argentina)
• "Hadrien e Napoleon e il Libro delle Avventure" by Francesco Giustozzi (Italy)
• "While you are asleep" by Mariann Maray (Hungary)
• "Il giardino dei sogni" by Maike Neuendorff (Germany)
• "Metamorfosi" by Sergio Olivotti (Italy)
• "Il tesoro di Nina" by Sonia Maria Luce Possentini (Italy)
• "La grulla mas libre del cielo" by Christa Soriano Michel (Spain)
• "Tanti intrecci" by Yan Xinyuan (China)

The 2020 Silent Book Contest – Gianni De Conno Award

200 works were received from 38 different countries and areas.
Winner: “Bolezn/Che febbre!” by Rina Allek (Russia)
Junior winner: “Hide and Seek/Nascondino” by David Hearn (UK)
Finalists:

• “All the lonely people” by Mariann Maray (Hungary)
• “Bolezn” by Rina Allek (Russia)
• “Game, set, match” by Bistra Masseva (Bulgaria)
• “Habitat” by Laura Maggioni and Giulia Bazzu (Italy)
• “Hey Human, see what you do” by Milk DoNg Comic* s (China)
• “Hey, I’m grey” by Daria Solak Illustrations (Poland)
• “Hide and Seek” by David Hearn (UK)
• “La sciarpa blu” by Agnese Leone (Italy)
• “La Serra” by Giovanni Colaneri (Italy)
• “Odori d* ella strada” by Olga Shevchenko (Russia)
• “The co* age, in mountain wind” by Li Yao (China)
• “The Night Hunt” by Lucie Stastna (Czech Republic)

The 2021 Silent Book Contest – Gianni De Conno Award

Winner: "Lo zainetto di Matilde" by Sardo, Cognolato, del Francia (Italy)
Junior winner: "Io sono Blu" by Irene Guglielmi (Italy)
Finalists:

• "All alone without a phone" by T. Rausch Potgieter (South Africa)
• "Grains feather" by Deimantė Rybakovienė (Lithuania)
• "La notte e la bambina" by Sophie Fatus (France)
• "Lamella" by Agnes Bertothy (Hungary)
• "Light of life" by Rita Nikiforova (Latvia)
• "Mr. Tears-Go-Away" by Yao Jian (China)
• "On silent waves" by Desislava Georgieva (Bulgaria)
• "Per tutta una vita" by Anna Spreafico (Italy)
• "The lone traveler" by Lisha Jiang (China)
• "The winter in the Northeast" by Wang Pin Yi (China)
• "Waiting" by Violeta Gomez (Spain)
• "Where is my home?" by Masha Shebeko (Russia)

The 2022 Silent Book Contest - Gianni De Conno Award

250 works were received from 44 countries around the world.
Winner: “Lost in porcelain” by Katerina Illnerova (Czech Republic)
Finalists:

• “Aport!” by Anna-Marie Kohutovà (Czech Republic)
• “Beyond the stars” by Eya Mordyakova (Russia)
• “Il fiume infinito” by Nadia Romero Marchesini (Argentina)
• “Il ragazzo nel dipinto” by Dario Maximiliano Moreno (Argentina)
• “Lost in porcelain” by Katerina Illnerova (Czech Republic)
• “Missing Leg” by Irene Frigo (Italy)
• “My little human” by Anastasiia Temborska (Ukraine)
• “Sireno” by Dina Perez (Argentina)
• “Spark” by Yedda Chen (Taiwan)
• “Teseo y el Minotauro” by Raphael Ampuero (Belgium)
• “The Boat and Whale” by Meinn Yang (Taiwan)
• “The last leaf” by Oleksandr Shatokhin (Ukraine)
• “Unbreakable friends” by Marto Kelbl (Czech Republic)

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