Zigor Anguiano Calzada has won first prize in Spain’s 2026 Best Artistic Bookbinding Awards for Puentes, his binding of Cánones subversivos by Gonzalo Celorio, recipient of the 2025 Cervantes Prize. The award, granted by the Ministry of Culture, carries a prize of €6,000.
Ángel Peinado Ursino received second prize and €4,000 for Mis Libros. Carlos Sánchez-Álamo Pérez took third place, receiving €2,000 for Memoria.
The jury also named three finalists: Evanescencia by José María Díaz de Argandoña Plaza, Impronta by Pedro Manuel Pérez del Castillo, and Iter et reditus by Benjamín Alonso Castillo.
The annual award is organized by the Ministry of Culture through its Directorate-General for Books, Comics and Reading. It recognizes artistic bookbinding and aims to support and acknowledge artists working in the field.
Sources: El País Cultura.