Greek Children’s Book Circle Awards

The shortlists for this year’s IBBY Greece Awards for writing, illustration and translation of books published in 2015 were announced last week.We were delighted to see two of our books nominated: The book by Thodoris Papaioannou, illustrated by Iris Samartzi, *Apenanti* (Across), is nominated for the award for picture book illustrator and author, for both the illustrations and the text, and the graphic novel "Democracy" by Alekos Papadatos, Avraam Kawa and Annie Di Donna is nominated for the award for author of a book for teenagers and young adults.The winners will be announced and the awards presented to the creators on Saturday 2 April 2016 at 7.00 pm at the annual celebration for World Children’s Book Day, at Aeriofylakio 1 – Amphitheatre at Technopolis, Municipality of Athens (100 Piraeus Street, Gazi).