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Illustration by Violeta Lópiz. Siruela

Violeta Lópiz's Creativity Earns Her the National Illustration Award

Her 'atmospheric, immersive, and poetic' style wins her the Culture Award, worth 30,000 euros / The Ibiza-born illustrator, now based in Germany, also designs clothing, interiors, murals, book and album covers, and lamps.

Miguel Lorenci

Madrid

Lunes, 16 de junio 2025, 18:35

Violeta Lópiz (Ibiza, 1980) has been awarded the National Illustration Prize, granted annually by the Ministry of Culture and endowed with 30,000 euros. The jury praised the illustrator for 'her great creativity' and 'her atmospheric and immersive style, with clear poetic evocation'. They also noted her ability to make each project 'a new exploration of artistic expression and unique visual aesthetics'.

'Violeta Lópiz enhances the language of the illustrated album through a play that seeks to exploit the plastic, graphic, and narrative resources it offers as a tool,' the verdict states. Her works, with a simple, clear, and delicate structure, 'allow us to touch other worlds with our own hands,' the jury added.

Violeta Lópiz. R. C.

Violeta Fernández Lópiz, the artist's full name, currently lives and works in Berlin, where she has her studio. In addition to being an illustrator, she is a designer of clothing, interiors, murals, lamps, book covers, album covers, and apps. She collaborates with newspapers such as El Mundo or El Expresso of Portugal and the Iberia magazine.

Primarily an illustrator of albums, she publishes with Spanish and European labels such as Kalandraka, Anaya, Edelvives, Siruela, Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Enchanted Lyon, Bruaá Edição, Editions du Rouerge, Editions Didier, Hélium, Cambourakis, Topipittori, and Planta Editora.

Illustration by Violeta Lópiz. R. C.

Widely awarded, her book 'Les Poings sur les Îles' won the CJ Picture Book Awards (South Korea) in 2011. In 2016, she received the Bienal Ilustrarte prize (Portugal) for the book 'Amigos do Peito' with text by Brazilian Claudio Tebas. She has also been selected at the Montreuil Book Fair and the Bologna Children's Book Fair on five occasions.

Her extensive bibliography includes titles such as 'The Forest' (New York, Enchanted Lyon, 2017), 'Berceuses et comptines d'Amérique du Sud' (Paris, Editions du didier, 2017), 'I pani d'oro della vecchina' (Milan, Topipittori, 2012), 'La asombrosa y verdadera historia de un ratón llamado Pérez' (Madrid, Siruela, 2012), and 'Les poings sur les îles' (Paris, Éditions du Rouergue, 2011).

The Culture Ministry awards this prize to 'distinguish the overall work done by a Spanish illustrator in the field of books and letters in any of the official Spanish languages.'

Fernández Lópiz succeeds Pep Monserrat, the illustrator awarded in the previous edition. She joins a roster that includes Sergio García Sánchez, Viví Escrivá, Sonia Pulido, Paco Giménez, María Rius Camps, Luci Gutiérrez, and Alfredo González, among others.

The Jury

The jury was chaired by María José Gálvez Salvador, Director General of Books, Comics, and Reading at the Ministry of Culture; with Jesús González González, Deputy Director General of Book Promotion, Reading, and Spanish Letters, acting as vice president. The panel included Carmen Segovia Moreno, proposed by the Professional Association of Illustrators of Catalonia; Luis Nieto Cano (Luis Demano), by the Professional Association of Illustrators of Valencia; Rubén Jiménez Martín (El Rubencio), by the Professional Association of Illustrators of Madrid; Miguel Cuba Taboada, by the Galician Association of Illustration Professionals; María Altuna

Lizarraga, by the Professional Association of Illustrators of Euskadi; Lara Esperante Ingelmo (La Chica de la Cinta), by the Federation of Professional Illustrators Associations (FADIP); Mónica Alonso Riveiro, by the UNED Gender Studies Centre; José Luis Turina de Santos, by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando; Almudena Suárez Jiménez, by the Spanish Organisation for Children's and Youth Books (OEPLI); Cristina Durán Costell, by the Ministry of Culture; and Pep Monserrat, the author awarded in the 2024 call.

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