1/5/2024
New winners of the "Letter to Santa Claus" award competition announced
The Post of Serbia has announced the winners of the third "Letter to Santa Claus" award competition, which received more than a thousand letters with individual and collective literary and artistic works by December 21. At the Belgrade holiday festival "Winter Fairy Tale", valuable prizes were awarded to the best authors by the Acting Director of the Post of Serbia, Zoran Đorđević and the President of the Writers' Association of Serbia, Miloš Janković.
"Children are a beautiful wonder of the world, incomparable, because they are the most sincere and innocent beings. They teach us to be good, to rejoice in small things and to feel the magic of the world around us. Children remind us of all our unfulfilled dreams and remind us of how we were once ourselves children. They are our hope for the future, they will inherit the world and have the opportunity to make it a better place. Children are our biggest inspiration and the biggest incentive to live life to the fullest, with a smile on our face. That is why we created the “Letter to Santa Claus", said Zoran Đorđević, Acting Director of the Post of Serbia.
The first place was won by David Mitrović (8) from Prilužje near Kosovska Mitrovica, the author of the winning poem "Christmas Fairy Tale", and Jakob Petraš (10) from Selenča, for an extremely precise and detailed drawing of an elaborate composition and bright colors, which strongly evokes the festive atmosphere.
The second places were won by Lena Ljubičić (11) from Mrčajevci, for the story "Christmas", and Emina Mamužić (6) from Subotica, for an art work with a lot of playfulness and freedom of movement, with a uniform color that evokes a winter ambience.
The third prizes went to Milena Kaplanović (9) from Nova Varoš, for the story "Christmas Fairy Tale" and Sofija Holms (10) from Kruševac, for fine art work with fine play of colors and brushes and skilful play with light details.
In the group competition, the first prizes went to Preschool Institution "Lasta" from Golubac, for the collective literary work "Book of Wishes", and to the first grade of Elementary School "Miroslav Antić" from Belgrade, who in an original way combined the width of children's imaginations with artisanal precision in drawing, in the original postage stamp format.
The second place was won by the children from the Elementary School "Nikola Tesla" from Novi Sad, for stories and poems, and children from the Kindergarten at the Elementary School "Branko Radičević" from Aleksandrovo, combining art and literature in the form of a book in which they told the story of Christmas with drawings and illustrations and customs on this holiday.
The third place for the mix of stories and poems was taken by the students of the 3rd and 4th grades, members of the literary and drama section of the Elementary School "Akademik Milenko Šušić" from Guča, and students of the second grade of the Elementary School "Josif Pančić" from Belgrade, for a holiday decoration made of drawings that show that children’s imagination and creativity knows no limitations in classical forms and techniques.
Three special prizes were awarded for group works - to students of fourth, fifth, and sixth grades of Elementary School "Stefan Dečanski" from Belgrade, to students of second and fourth grades of Elementary School "6. oktobar" from Kikinda, and to the sixth graders of Elementary School "Veljko Ramadanović" from Belgrade, represented by Teodora Stijepović, the author of the story "Letter to Santa Claus".
The commission for the selection of the best works in the Letter to Santa Claus competition consisted of writers Miloš Janković (President of the Commission), Gordana Vlajić and Aleksandra Mihajlović, and fellow artists and creators of postage stamps from the "Srbijamarka" Working Unit of the Post of Serbia.
The Post of Serbia awarded the winners with vouchers for technical equipment, sports clothes and shoes and other sports equipment, worth - 50,000 RSD, 40,000 RSD. and 30,000 RSD, in individual competition; - 90,000 RSD, 80,000 RSD. and 70,000 RSD, in the group competition, and 53,000 RSD each for three special prizes.