Violeta Lópiz, National Illustration Award 2025

Violeta Lópiz has been awarded the National Illustration Prize for 2025, at the suggestion of the jury meeting this Monday. The prize is worth 30,000 euros.

The jury praised the illustrator for "her great creativity, atmospheric and immersive style, clear poetic evocation, and for making each project a new exploration of artistic expression and unique visual aesthetics."

The jury also noted that Violeta Lópiz " enhances the language of the picture book through a playful exploitation of the visual, graphic, and narrative resources it offers. Each of Lópiz's works offers a new universe that, through a simple, clear, and delicate structure, allows us to touch other worlds with our own hands."

The Ministry of Culture grants this award to recognize and honor the body of work accomplished by a Spanish illustrator in the field of books and literature in any of the official Spanish languages.

The award recognized the illustrator Pep Monserrat in its last edition, joining a long list of winners, including Sergio García Sánchez, Viví Escrivá , Sonia Pulido, Paco Giménez, María Rius Camps, Luci Gutiérrez and Alfredo González , among others.

Violeta Lópiz was born in Ibiza in 1980 and is an illustrator primarily of picture books. Lópiz has published with Kalandraka, Anaya, Edelvives , Siruela, Macmillan, Oxford University Press , Enchanted Lyon, Bruaá Edição, Editions du Rouerge, Editions Didier, Hélium, Cambourakis, Topipittori, and Planta Editora.

In 2011, her book 'Les Poings sur les Îles' won the CJ Picture Book Awards (South Korea). In 2016, she received the Premio Bienal Ilustrarte (Lisbon, Portugal) for her book 'migos do Peito', with text by Brazilian author Claudio Tebas, published by Brua&á in 2014. She has also been selected for the ' Salon du livre in Montreul ' and the 'Bologna Children's Book Fair' five times.

Among his bibliography are ' The Forest ' (New York, Enchanted Lyon, 2017), 'Berceuses et comptines d'Amérique du Sud' (Paris, Editions du didier, 2017), ' Friends do Peito ' (Figueira da Foz, Bruaá Edição e Design, 2015), 'I pani d'oro della vecchina' (Milan, Topipittori, 2012), 'The amazing and true story of a mouse called Pérez' (Madrid, Siruela, 2012), and ' Les poings sur les îles ' (Paris, Éditions du Rouergue, 2011).

Lópiz is a contributor to the newspaper El Mundo, El Expresso de Portugal, and Iberia magazine. She is also a designer and illustrator of clothing, interiors, murals, lamps, book covers, album covers, and apps. She currently lives and works in Berlin, where she has her studio.