Daniel Kondo · Author · Illustrator · Book Designer
Awards & Recognition
Books judged by their words, images & form.
Selected awards, juried selections and institutional recognition across literature, illustration and editorial design — from the BolognaRagazzi Award and Prêmio Jabuti to international illustration and design juries.
Major recognitions
Six landmarks across literature, illustration and book design.
Selected awards and juried recognitions marking different stages of a practice moving between writing, illustration, picturebooks and editorial design.
2010 · Bologna
BolognaRagazzi Award
Special Mention · New Horizons
Tchibum!
↗2022 · Brazil
Prêmio Jabuti
Winner · Children’s Literature
Sonhozzz
↗2023 · Uruguay
Premios a las Letras
Premio Único · Literatura Infantil y Juvenil · Ópera Prima
El Rojo Orgulloso
↗2025 · Brazil
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
3rd Prize · Prêmio Aloísio Magalhães · Graphic Design
Lobo Mau com Dor de Dente
↗2025 · Brazil
Prêmio Brasileiro de Design
Silver · Editorial Design + Popular Vote
Lobo Mau com Dor de Dente
↗2026 · New York
Society of Illustrators
Selected Work · Illustrators Annual 68
Refloresta
↗One book · recurring recognition
One wolf. Six institutions. Seven distinctions.
Between 2025 and 2026, Lobo Mau com Dor de Dente was independently recognized by juries working across literature, illustration and editorial design.
2025–2026
6 independent institutions recognizing the same book
The convergence is particularly significant because the juries approach the work from different fields: literary form, illustration, editorial design, materiality and the book as a physical reading experience.
Selected books
Recognition follows the work.
Different books have been recognized for different aspects: writing, illustration, book design, experimentation, visual poetry and the relationship between narrative and physical form.
Lobo Mau com Dor de Dente
FBN · BDA · American Illustration · Communication Arts · WIA · UNESCO
Sonhozzz
Jabuti winner · FNLIJ Highly Recommended
El Rojo Orgulloso
Premios a las Letras · BRAW Amazing Bookshelf
Feira Feroz
Cátedra UNESCO · Jabuti Illustration Top 10
Desembarcados
Bologna · FNLIJ
A Mancha
Cátedra UNESCO · FNLIJ · Clube de Leitura ODS · Jabuti Top 10
No Cangote do Saci
FNLIJ Highly Recommended · International Youth Library
Recognition archive
2009 → 2026
Awards, distinctions, juried selections and institutional recognition in chronological order.
2025
2023
2022
2021
2017
Source index
By institution.
Institutional sources and records documenting the principal awards and selections above.
Literature · illustration · editorial design
The book is not a container for the work. The book is the work.
Across these projects, recognition repeatedly returns to the same territory: the relationship between narrative and visual language, and the idea that format, material, sequence, typography, illustration and page-turning can themselves tell the story.