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Prix Imaginales – The Other Categories

May 11th, 2009 by Editors

We now have some more information about the Prix Imaginales and some translations of the nominees in the other categories.

We note in particular that only the French language novel requires that the original work be in French. Kelly Link has a story in the short fiction category, and the young adult category contains several translated works.

The award ceremony will be at 6:30pm (French time) on Saturday, May 16. Cheryl will be there to report.

French Language Novel

  • Legend of the killer demons , book 1: Big country, Ange (Bragelonne)
  • Songs of the Valkyries, Edouard Brasey (Belfond)
  • The Lady of MacEnnen, Armand Cabasson (Glyphe)
  • To win the war: Tales of the old kingdom, Jean-Philippe Jaworski (Les Moutons Électriques)
  • Commando of the Immortals, Christophe Lambert (Fleuve Noir)

Translated Novel

See here.

Young Adult Novel

  • The Gorgonauts, Fabien Clavel (coll. Lost Realms, Mango)
  • Atlantis book 1: The heiress, Christine et Madeleine Féret-Fleury (Hachette)
  • The Fear-Master (Der Schrecksenmeister) by Walter Moers (translated from German) (Panama)
  • Chronicles of the Emerged World book 1: Nihal from the Land of the Wind, Licia Troisi (translated from Italian) (Pocket)
  • Gaspard’s Voyage by Eric Pauwels (translated) (Éditions de l’Œuvre)

Short Fiction

  • “The closed island”, Lionel Davoust
  • “Battle for a memory”, Lionel Davoust
  • “Stone animals”, Kelly Link

Illustration

  • “You, light of my night”, Krystal Camprubi & Christian Grenier
  • “Like ghosts”, Arnaud Crémet
  • The cover of Tracing the shadow (Sarah Ash), Didier Graffet
  • The cover of Lord of the Isles (David Drake), Sari Long
  • The cover of Big country (Ange), Frédéric Perrin

Special prize

  • Dragons and Chimaeras, Pierre Dubois & Camille Renversade
  • Legends and fantastic creatures, Nathalie Dau & Krystal Camprubi
  • The encyclopedia of elves by Edouard Kloczko
  • Fairy Miscellany (a magazine), Anne Blaitel & Clémence Fournerie
  • The podcast web site utopod.com, Lucas Moreno

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2 Responses to “Prix Imaginales – The Other Categories”

  1. on 12 May 2009 at 5:10 am1 Cheryl’s Mewsings » Blog Archive » Et Maintenant, En Français

    [...] Awards, except for work in French rather than English. There’s information about them on the SF Awards Watch site. You can see from the nominees for the Translated Novel category that our French friends have [...]

  2. on 26 Jun 2009 at 9:17 am2 Imaginales & Interfictions 2 « Chronicles of Neania

    [...] the stories nominated for the Prix Imaginales in the Best Short Fiction category were Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals” and two nouvelles by Lionel Davoust. One of these, [...]