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BolognaRagazzi Award > Jury 2012
An international jury of experts identifies the best publishing projects considering their technical elements, artistic merit and the achieved delicate balance between text and images.
ANTONIO FAETI - Bologna, Italy
Galleria Immagini
President
Born in 1939 in Bologna, after years of experience as an elementary school teacher, Antonio Faeti obtained the tenure of the first University chair in Italy for the History of Children’s Literature at the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of Bologna. He presently teaches at a course in Pedagogy of Reading supported by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna.
JULIE DANIELSON – Nashville, USA
Galleria Immagini
Julie Danielson received her Master's degree in Information Sciences at The University of Tennessee in the U.S. She writes articles on children’s books and interviews their creators for Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, a blog she co-founded that focuses primarily on illustration and picture books. She also writes a weekly column on children’s literature for Kirkus Reviews and is currently working on a book with Elizabeth Bird and Peter D. Sieruta. Tentatively titled Wild Things!: The True, Untold Stories Behind the Most Beloved Children’s Books and Their Creators, it will be published by Candlewick Press in 2013. In 2011, she served as a jury member for the Society of Illustrators' Original Art award. Her website is sevenimpossiblethings.org.
RAYMOND STOFFEL – Luxembourg
Galleria Immagini
At 15, Raymond attended the inaugural class of the Fine Arts section of Luxembourg’s Ecole des Arts et Métiers, continuing his studies in visual communication at the "Peter Behrens Werkkunstschule Fachhochschule" in Dusseldorf. Taken on as an associate artist in 1972 by Massin at Editions Gallimard at the time of the launch of the Folio Collection, two years later Raymond became a member of the very first team put together by Pierre Marchand and Jean-Olivier Héron for the start-up of Gallimard Jeunesse. He was to remain there for 38 years.
Thirty-eight years in the beautiful house of Gaston, Claude, Christian, Antoine, Pierre and Hedwige, a temple of literature and joyful knowledge, with some 11 854 titles published in 263 collections from 1972 to 2008, when I retired. It was a team of co-workers, sincere, generous friends who bubbled with ideas. Thirty-five years at the heart of this department during which children’s books underwent unimagined developments driven by technological change but also continual creative verve, working with the very best contemporary authors and illustrators of children’s literature. There were also rewards like winning the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2003 Fiction Award for Raymond Queneau’s "Exercise de Style", and the 2007 Non-Fiction prize with "L’encyclopédie des cancres".
Currently Raymond Stoffel continues to practise his enjoyable trade in the excellent company of Pauline Gallimard, Artistic Director at Calligram
