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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Komikera wins 2020 PBBY-Alcala Prize

The grand prize winner of the 2020 PBBY-Alcala Prize is Victoria Melissa R. Tadiar. Ms. Tadiar won for her illustrations based on Boon Kristoffer Lauw’s chapter book, Team Abangers at ang Estilong Trumpo. Lauw won the grand prize at the 2020 PBBY-Salanga Prize, the first time the competition was opened to chapter books.

Tadiar is a full-time IT professional who works on comics and illustrations in her free time. She won the Komiket Best Komiks Award in 2017 for her Filipiniana fantasy comic SAGALA, which was released as a self-published graphic novel in 2019. Her current project, Twinkle, Twinkle, is an Official Selection finalist at the First Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF). She is also a new member of Ang InK (Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan), the only professional organization of children’s illustrators.

Tadiar will be awarded at the 37th National Children’s Book Day celebration on July 21, 2020.

For inquiries about the contest, contact the PBBY secretariat at secretariat@pbby.org.ph.

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