The winners of the Jāņa Baltvilka Prize are known – Culture

Lauris Gundars, winner of the Literary Prize, and Gita Treice in the children's and youth books received the Janis Baltvilks Award, and the event spokesperson, Ilze Marga, announced that she had received the award "Sveiks, Vali!" (Large and Small Publishing House, 2017), in which, in describing the grandfather's daily routine, the problem solved wisely is how to overcome the secret. The children's and young Treice books have been received for the original illustrations of the books "Bruveri Bruve" ("Pētergailis", 2018) and "The Fairy Tales of Latvian Wonders" (1965-19003). "Janis Rozes Publishing", 2017), which has already been released in several languages. She has created illustrations in which the content of unusual poems wins the fulfillment of reality.

This year, Latvian Children's and Young People's Literary Council (LBJLP) awarded the jury prize to artist Jan Blank for the title of "The Earth" by Arthur Gobb, a writer of the hundredth bikibuk – Artura Goba

Winner of the Latvian State Forest Award (LVM) "Young People" in literature and the art of children's book "(" Large and Small ", 2017) – for illustrations where a visualization of earth cancer has produced a final ending.Eighth year student of the school Ādaži Free Waldorf Emīls Mozga.He received the prize for illustrations of the first trilogy "The path of the earth unknown "for the book" The black stone "(Zvaigzne ABC, 2018)

The international winner of the Baltvilk Prize this year is the Estonian writer Tīa Selli." (John Rose Publishing, 2017), which shows the Importance of joy, activity, wisdom, love and beauty in the representatio n little girls in Mia's daily life with her mother. This book has been translated by multiple award winner Maima Greenberg

The winners have received diplomas, award-winning prizes and cash prizes from Ineses Brants, as well as the opportunity to live and work for a month at the International House of Writers and Translators of Ventspils. The edition 19659004 of the May-May 2017 edition was evaluated by a jury with the President of Literary Council of Children and Youth of Latvia (LBJLP), the University of Latvia Professor Ilze Stikana, expert in mediation at the Center for Children's Literature of the National Library of Latvia (LNB), Doctor of Communication Sciences Aiga Grēniņa, Professor of Art and Doctor of Pedagogy Austra Avotiņa, Ilze Kupča, Specialist of the visual education of the Latvian National Cultural Center and Janis Upmanis-Holšteins Mārtiņš Eihe