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"The Asian audience wants something new. You can see inspiration from European comics in Taiwanese or Japanese comics. 'The readers there appreciate good art and are opening up to foreign comics,' Bartosz Sztybor, a comics and film scriptwriter, told Polish Press Agency (PAP) during the Taipei International Book Exhibition.

This year, as many as three Polish books received the Bologna Ragazzi Award: in the non-fiction category - Agata Loth-Ignaciuk and Bartłomiej Ignaciuk's Marek Kamiński. Jak zdobyć bieguny Ziemi. W rok (“Marek Kamiński. How to Conquer the Poles of the Earth. In a Year", Druganoga Publishing House), in the Opera prima category - Pion i poziom (“Vertical and horizontal", Dwie Siostry Publishing House) by Bartosz Sztybor with illustrations by Łukasz Golędzinowski, while the Comics-middle grade award went to Którędy do Yellowstone? Dzika podróż po parkach narodowych (”Which Way to Yellowstone? A Wild Journey Through the National Parks", Dwie Siostry Publishing House) by Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski.