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Italian Translation of Ormeshadow

Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma coming in October!

We are happy to announce the release of Ormeshadow, by Priya Sharma, is among the spearheads of the new generation of English weird. His works have appeared in several magazines such as Black Static, Interzone, Nightmare and The Dark, and translated in various countries around the world.

Ormeshadow, orpear winner of the Shirley Jackson Award 2019 and the British Fantasy Award 2020, is a touching coming-of-age story, between dark atmospheres and messages of hope, which presents for the first time to the Italian public the talent of Priya Sharma.

Ormeshadow will be previewed at Stranimondi 2022 while the official release is scheduled for October 13, 2022 in the Visioni series, with a translation by Elena Furlan.

Synopsis

England. Victorian age. The life of the young Gideon Baltam revolves around the family and the hard rhythms of the Ormesleep farm in the town of Ormeshadow, a place steeped in myths and legends: Orme, a dragon buried and asleep, pervaded by dreams of resentment, jealousy, death, prepares to awaken. Or so the legends say.

-Edizioni Hypnos website

Ormeshadow di Priya Sharma in arrivo a ottobre!

Siamo felici di annunciare l’uscita di Ormeshadow, di Priya Sharma, è tra le punte di diamante della nuova generazione del weird inglese. Le sue opere sono apparse su diverse riviste quali Black Static, Interzone, Nightmare e The Dark, e tradotte in vari paesi del mondo. 

Ormeshadow, opera vincitrice dello Shirley Jackson Award 2019 e del British Fantasy Award 2020, è una toccante storia di formazione, tra atmosfere oscure e messaggi di speranza, che presenta per la prima volta al pubblico italiano il talento di Priya Sharma.

Ormeshadow sarà presentato in anteprima a Stranimondi 2022 mentre l’uscita ufficiale è prevista per il 13 ottobre 2022 nella collana Visioni, con traduzione di Elena Furlan.

Sinossi

Inghilterra. Età vittoriana. La vita del giovane Gideon Baltam ruota attorno alla famiglia e ai duri ritmi della fattoria di Ormesleep nella località di Ormeshadow, luogo intriso di miti e leggende: Orme, un drago sepolto e addormentato, pervaso da sogni di risentimento, di gelosia, di morte, si prepara al risveglio. O così almeno dicono le leggende.

-Edizioni Hypnos website

My huge thanks to Edizioni Hypnos and Stranimondi – I am VERY excited to be attending the launch in Milan in October 2022.

This book was originally published by Tor.com in 2019

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2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners

My very hearty congratulations to all the winners and nominees. It was wonderful to be on the list!

French Novel

  • WINNER: Vivonne, Jérôme Leroy (La Table ronde)
  • Citadins de demain, Claire Duvivier (Aux forges de Vulcain)
  • Nous sommes les chasseurs, Jérémy Fel (Rivages)
  • La Nuit du faune, Romain Lucazeau (Albin Michel)
  • Feminicid, Christophe Siébert (Au diable vauvert)

Foreign Novel

  • WINNER: Notre part de nuit, Mariana Enriquez (Le Sous-sol)
  • Les Maîtres enlumineurs tomes 1 & 2 [Foundryside and Shorefall], Robert Jackson Bennett (Albin Michel)
  • Andrea Cort tomes 1 & 2 [Emissaries from the Dead and The Third Claw of God], Adam-Troy Castro (Albin Michel)
  • La Monture [The Mount], Carol Emshwiller (Argyll)
  • Lazare attend [Lazarus Is Waiting], James Morrow (Au diable vauvert)
  • L’Interdépendance tomes 1 à 3 [The Collapsing EmpireThe Consuming FireThe Last Emperox], John Scalzi (L’Atalante)

French Short Fiction

  • WINNER: Plasmas (recueil), Céline Minard (Rivages)
  • “Collisions par temps calme”, Stéphane Beauverger (La Volte)
  • “Meurtre dans la douceur”, Jérôme Leroy (Renaissances)
  • “Le Récit recyclé”, Flore Vesco (Elle est le vent furieux)

Foreign Short Fiction

  • WINNER: Tous les noms qu’ ils donnaient à Dieu [All the Names They Used for God], Anjali Sachdeva (Albin Michel)
  • Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
  • Fournaise [Furnace], Livia Llewellyn (Dystopia)
  • Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Le Bélial’)
  • Le Livre écorné de ma vie [Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life], Lucius Shepard (Le Bélial’)

French YA Novel

  • WINNER: Prospérine Virgule-Point et la Phrase sans fin, Laure Dargelos (Rivka)
  • La Honte de la Galaxie, Alexis Brocas (Sarbacane)
  • La Sourcière, Élise Fontenaille (Rouergue)
  • D’Or et d’Oreillers, Flore Vesco (L’École des loisirs)

Foreign YA Novel

  • WINNER: Les Guerriers orphelins [Tales of the Otori], Lian Hearn (Gallimard jeunesse)
  • Daevabad tomes 1 & 2 [The City of Brass and The Kingdom of Copper], S.A. Chakraborty (De Saxus)

Jacques Chambon Translation Prize

  • WINNER: Mathilde Montier for Les Tambours du Dieu noir et Ring Shout [The Black God’s Drums and Ring Shout], P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
  • Patrick Couton for Le Livre de Koli [The Book of Koli], M.R. Carey (L’Atalante)
  • Benoît Domis for Andrea Cort tomes 1 & 2 [Emissaries from the Dead and The Third Claw of God], Adam-Troy Castro (Albin Michel)
  • Gilles Goullet for Un Souvenir nommé empire [A Memory Called Empire], Arkady Martine (Nouveaux Millénaires)
  • Anne Plantagenet for Notre part de nuit [Nuestra parte de noche], Mariana Enriquez (Le Sous-sol)

Wojtek Siudmak Award for Art

  • WINNER: Elena Vieillard for Citadins de demain, Claire Duvivier and Le Sang de la Cité, Guillaume Chamanadjian (Aux forges de Vulcain)
  • Zdzislaw Beksinski for L’Intégrale, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Mnémos)
  • Benjamin Carré for Les Tambours du Dieu noir [The Black God’s Drums], P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
  • Dorian Danielsen & Véronique Meignaud for Le Livre de Koli [The Book of Koli], M.R. Carey (L’Atalante)
  • Stephan Martinière for Le Mystère du tramway hanté [The Haunting of Tram Car 015], P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
  • Aurélien Police for Les Ancêtres [The Erstwhile], Brian Catling (Fleuve)

Non-Fiction

  • WINNER: “La Pulpe et la Moëlle” (préface), Serge Lehman (Maîtres du vertige)
  • La revue Anticipation n° 3 – Les mondes post-apocalyptiques (Books on Demand)
  • Apparitions. Les archives de la France hantée, Philippe Baudouin (Hoebeke)
  • Les Pouvoirs de l’enchantement, Anne Besson (Vendémiaire)
  • Apocalypse Show, quand l’Amérique s’effondre, Anne-Lise Melquiond (Playlist Society)
  • James Graham Ballard et le cauchemar consumériste, Thierry Paquot (Le Passager clandestin)

Prix Spécial

  • WINNER: Alain Sprauel for his meticulous and tireless work as a bibliographer of l’Imaginaire, and in particular Stephen King’s 2021 bibliography
  • The anthology of the first Hypermondes festival, dedicated to robots (Electric sheep)
  • Atelier Akatombo for their view of Japanese SF, through the anthology La Machine à indifférence
  • Gérard Klein for his writings devoted to the analysis of science fiction, collected in Le Livre des préfaces (Livre de poche & Quarante-Deux)
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Grand Prix de I’Imaginaire

The shortlist for the 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honouring the best SF/F work published in France in 2021, has been announced. Winners will be announced during the Étonnants Voyageurs festival in Saint-Malo, France to be held June 4-6 2022. For more information, see the official website.

Finalists:

I am absolutely thrilled to make this list in Foreign Short Fiction group with “Ormeshadow” (Le Belial Editions).

French Novel

  • Citadins de demain, Claire Duvivier (Aux forges de Vulcain)
  • Nous sommes les chasseurs, Jérémy Fel (Rivages)
  • Vivonne, Jérôme Leroy (La Table ronde)
  • La Nuit du faune, Romain Lucazeau (Albin Michel)
  • Feminicid, Christophe Siébert (Au diable vauvert)

Foreign Novel

  • Les Maîtres enlumineurs tomes 1 & 2 [Foundryside and Shorefall], Robert Jackson Bennett (Albin Michel)
  • Andrea Cort tomes 1 & 2 [Emissaries from the Dead and The Third Claw of God], Adam-Troy Castro (Albin Michel)
  • La Monture [The Mount], Carol Emshwiller (Argyll)
  • Notre part de nuit, Mariana Enriquez (Le Sous-sol)
  • Lazare attend [Lazarus Is Waiting], James Morrow (Au diable vauvert)
  • L’Interdépendance tomes 1 à 3 [The Collapsing EmpireThe Consuming FireThe Last Emperox], John Scalzi (L’Atalante)

French Short Fiction

  • “Collisions par temps calme”, Stéphane Beauverger (La Volte)
  • “Meurtre dans la douceur”, Jérôme Leroy (Renaissances)
  • Plasmas (recueil), Céline Minard (Rivages)
  • “Le Récit recyclé”, Flore Vesco (Elle est le vent furieux)

Foreign Short Fiction

  • Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
  • Fournaise [Furnace], Livia Llewellyn (Dystopia)
  • Tous les noms qu’ ils donnaient à Dieu [All the Names They Used for God], Anjali Sachdeva (Albin Michel)
  • Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Le Bélial’)
  • Le Livre écorné de ma vie [Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life], Lucius Shepard (Le Bélial’)

French YA Novel

  • La Honte de la Galaxie, Alexis Brocas (Sarbacane)
  • Prospérine Virgule-Point et la Phrase sans fin, Laure Dargelos (Rivka)
  • La Sourcière, Élise Fontenaille (Rouergue)
  • D’Or et d’Oreillers, Flore Vesco (L’École des loisirs)

Foreign YA Novel

  • Daevabad tomes 1 & 2 [The City of Brass and The Kingdom of Copper], S.A. Chakraborty (De Saxus)
  • Les Guerriers orphelins [Tales of the Otori], Lian Hearn (Gallimard jeunesse)

Jacques Chambon Translation Prize

  • Patrick Couton for Le Livre de Koli [The Book of Koli], M.R. Carey (L’Atalante)
  • Benoît Domis for Andrea Cort tomes 1 & 2 [Emissaries from the Dead and The Third Claw of God], Adam-Troy Castro (Albin Michel)
  • Gilles Goullet for Un Souvenir nommé empire [A Memory Called Empire], Arkady Martine (Nouveaux Millénaires)
  • Mathilde Montier for Les Tambours du Dieu noir et Ring Shout [The Black God’s Drums and Ring Shout], P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
  • Anne Plantagenet for Notre part de nuit [Nuestra parte de noche], Mariana Enriquez (Le Sous-sol)

Wojtek Siudmak Award for Art

  • Zdzislaw Beksinski for L’Intégrale, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Mnémos)
  • Benjamin Carré for Les Tambours du Dieu noir [The Black God’s Drums], P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
  • Dorian Danielsen & Véronique Meignaud for Le Livre de Koli [The Book of Koli], M.R. Carey (L’Atalante)
  • Stephan Martinière for Le Mystère du tramway hanté [The Haunting of Tram Car 015], P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
  • Aurélien Police for Les Ancêtres [The Erstwhile], Brian Catling (Fleuve)
  • Elena Vieillard for Citadins de demain, Claire Duvivier and Le Sang de la Cité, Guillaume Chamanadjian (Aux forges de Vulcain)

Non-Fiction

  • La revue Anticipation n° 3 – Les mondes post-apocalyptiques (Books on Demand)
  • Apparitions. Les archives de la France hantée, Philippe Baudouin (Hoebeke)
  • Les Pouvoirs de l’enchantement, Anne Besson (Vendémiaire)
  • “La Pulpe et la Moëlle” (préface), Serge Lehman (Maîtres du vertige)
  • Apocalypse Show, quand l’Amérique s’effondre, Anne-Lise Melquiond (Playlist Society)
  • James Graham Ballard et le cauchemar consumériste, Thierry Paquot (Le Passager clandestin)

Prix Spécial

  • The anthology of the first Hypermondes festival, dedicated to robots (Electric sheep)
  • Atelier Akatombo for their view of Japanese SF, through the anthology La Machine à indifférence
  • Gérard Klein for his writings devoted to the analysis of science fiction, collected in Le Livre des préfaces (Livre de poche & Quarante-Deux)
  • Alain Sprauel for his meticulous and tireless work as a bibliographer of l’Imaginaire, and in particular Stephen King’s 2021 bibliography

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2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire First Round Nominations

I am honoured to make the longlist for 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire First Round Nominations | File 770 in the Short Foreign Fiction category for ‘Ormeshadow’. It’s terrific to make it this far, alongside some fantastic authors – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, P. Djèlí Clark, Karen Joy Fowler, Greg Egan, Livia Llewellyn, Yûsuke Miyauchi, Anjali Sachdeva, Lucius Shepard , Hirotaka Tobi, and William T. Vollmann.

Je suis honorée de faire partie de la première sélection du Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire dans la catégorie « Nouvelle étrangère », avec Ormeshadow. C’est déjà formidable d’être arrivée aussi loin, aux côtés d’auteurs incroyables — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, P. Djèlí Clark, Karen Joy Fowler, Greg Egan, Livia Llewellyn, Yûsuke Miyauchi, Anjali Sachdeva, Lucius Shepard, Hirotaka Tobi et William T. Vollmann.

The awards will be presented during the Étonnants Voyageurs festival in Saint-Malo, France to be held June 4-6.

Les prix seront décernés lors du festival Étonnants Voyageurs qui se tiendra à Saint-Malo, en France, du 4 au 6 juin

My thanks to the jurors: Joëlle Wintrebert (president), Jean-Luc Rivera (vice-president), Nicolas Winter (deputy), Jean-Claude Dunyach (treasurer), Sylvie Allouche, François Angelier, Audrey Burki, Olivier Legendre, and Sylvie Le Jemtel. I’m delighted to make it this far.

Je remercie les jurés : Joëlle Wintrebert (présidente), Jean-Luc Rivera (vice-président), Nicolas Winter (adjoint), Jean-Claude Dunyach (trésorier), Sylvie Allouche, François Angelier, Audrey Burki, Olivier Legendre, et Sylvie Le Jemtel. Je suis ravie d’être arrivée jusqu’ici.

My thanks to my agent Alexander Cochran for the introduction to Erwann Perchoc of Le Bélial’ Éditions. Also to Anne-Sylvie Hamassel for her translation and Aurélien Police for his beautiful cover art.

Je remercie également mon agent Alexander Cochran pour la mise en contact avec Erwann Perchoc des éditions du Bélial’. Un grand merci aussi à Anne-Sylvie Homassel pour sa traduction et à Aurélien Police pour sa magnifique illustration de couverture.

Ormeshadow was originally published by Tor in 2019. My eternal thanks to everyone there and to Ellen Datlow.

Ormeshadow est paru originellement chez Tor en 2019. Ma reconnaissance éternelle à toute l’équipe et à Ellen Datlow.

https://www.belial.fr/priya-sharma/ormeshadow

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Ormeshadow arrives in France

Je suis ravie que Ormeshadow soit maintenant disponible en français, aux éditions du Bélial’. Un immense merci aux éditeurs Olivier Girard et Erwann Perchoc, à la traductrice Anne-Sylvie Homassel et à l’illustrateur Aurélien Police, qui, par leur travail, ont permis à ce livre d’exister en France.

I’m delighted that the Ormeshadow is now available in French from Éditions du Bélial‘ . My huge thanks to editors Olivier Girard and Erwann Perchoc, translator Ann-Sylie Homassel, and cover artist Aurélien Police for all their hard work in bringing this book to life in France.

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Interview about Ormeshadow

Thanks to Mark West for an interviewing me about Ormeshadow over on his website. You can read the whole thing here.

Mark West lives in Northamptonshire with his wife Alison and their son Matthew. Since discovering the small press in 1998 he has published over eighty short stories, two novels, a novelette, a chapbook, two collections and six novellas (one of which, Drive, was nominated for a British Fantasy Award). He has more short stories forthcoming and is currently working on a crime/thriller novel. Away from writing, he enjoys reading, walking, watching films and playing Dudeball with his son. He can be contacted through his website at www.markwest.org.uk and is also on Twitter as @MarkEWest

When Sam Murphy’s seven-year-old daughter Janey starts to suffer night terrors, he does his best to assure her that Mr Stix – a voice from the shadows who says “mean things” to her – can’t hurt her.

Sam later finds the grotesque Mr Stix in the family bathroom and then his terrified wife tells him the story of her own childhood night-time fears.

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British Fantasy Awards 2020 announced

The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2020 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

Best Novella

  • WINNER: Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Story

Best Collection

Best Anthology

Best Independent Press

  • WINNER: Rebellion
  • Aqueduct
  • Black Shuck
  • Luna
  • NewCon
  • Undertow

Best Non-Fiction

Best Magazine / Periodical

  • WINNER: Fiyah
  • Black Static
  • The Dark
  • Gingernuts of Horror
  • Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • Shoreline of Infinity

Best Artist

  • WINNER: Ben Baldwin
  • Vince Haig
  • Jackie Morris
  • David Rix

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

  • WINNER: DIE, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)

Best Audio

  • WINNER: PodCastle
  • Breaking the Glass Slipper
  • PseudoPod
  • Speculative Spaces

Best Film / Television Production

  • WINNER: Us
  • Game of Thrones: “The Long Night”
  • Watchmen: “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
  • The Witcher: “Rare Species”

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

Karl Edward Wagner Award

  • Craig Lockley
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Ormeshadow and Le Bélial’

I am very proud that “Ormeshadow” is to be released in April 2021 in France by Le Bélial’. It’s been translated by Anne-Sylvie Homassel and the cover art is by Aurelian Police.

Erwann Perchoc, editor of Le Bélial’, discussed this year’s publishing schedule here, which includes work by Nancy Kress, Poul Anderson, and Ken Lui.

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British Fantasy Awards 2020 Shortlist

The BFA 2020 shortlist has now been announced and I am delighted to be on there with “Ormeshadow”. One of the joys of attending Cons and getting to know the writing community online is that I am as delighted to see friends and people I know on the list. Congratulations to everyone.

Whatever the outcome I am always grateful to Ellen Datlow and the good people at Tor.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • The Bone Ships – RJ Barker (Orbit)
  • The Migration – Helen Marshall (Titan)
  • The Poison Song – Jen Williams (Headline)
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January – Alix E Harrow (Orbit)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

  • The Institute – Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
  • The Migration – Helen Marshall (Titan)
  • Mistletoe – Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
  • The Plague Stones – James Brogden (Titan)
  • The Reddening – Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)
  • The Twisted Ones – T. Kingfisher (Titan)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates, for The Water Dancer (Penguin)
  • Alix E Harrow, for The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Orbit)
  • Penny Jones, for Suffer Little Children (Black Shuck Books)
  • Tamsyn Muir, for Gideon the Ninth (Tordotcom)
  • Nina Oram, for The Joining (Luna Press)

Best Novella

  • The Ascent to Godhood – Neon Yang (Tordotcom)
  • Butcher’s Table – Nathan Ballingrud (Gallery / Saga Press)
  • The Deep – Rivers Solomon (Gallery / Saga Press)
  • Ormeshadow – Priya Sharma (Tordotcom)
  • Ragged Alice – Gareth L Powell (Tordotcom)
  • The Survival of Molly Southbourne – Tade Thompson (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

  • Dendrochronology – Penny Jones (Hersham Horror)
  • I Say, I Say, I Say – Robert Shearman (The Shadow Booth)
  • The Pain-Eater’s Daughter – Laura Mauro (Undertow)
  • Tomorrow, When I Was Young – Julie Travis (Eibonvale Press)

Best Anthology

  • A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, ed. Jennifer Brozek (Pulse Publishing)
  • The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage)
  • New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction for People of Color, ed. Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
  • Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales, ed. David Gullen (NewCon)
  • Wonderland, ed. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (Titan)
  • The Woods, ed. Phil Sloman (Hersham Horror)

Best Collection

  • The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams – Maura McHugh (NewCon)
  • Growing Things – Paul Tremblay (Titan)
  • This House of Wounds – Georgina Bruce (Undertow)
  • Of Wars, And Memories, And Starlight – Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)
  • Sing Your Sadness Deep – Laura Mauro (Undertow)

Best Non-Fiction

  • Coffinmaker’s Blues: Collected Writings on Terror – Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
  • The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games – Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)
  • The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart
  • Joanna Russ (Modern Masters of SF) – Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
  • Notes from the Borderland – Lynda E Rucker, for Black Static (TTA Press)
  • The Pleasant Profession of Robert E Heinlein – Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)

Best Independent Press

  • Aqueduct Press
  • Black Shuck Books
  • Luna Press 
  • NewCon Press
  • Rebellion Publishing
  • Undertow Publications

Best Magazine / Periodical

  • Black Static
  • The Dark
  • F&SF
  • Fiyah
  • Gingernuts of Horror
  • Shoreline of Infinity

Best Audio

  • Breaking the Glass Slipper
  • PodCastle
  • PseudoPod
  • Speculative Spaces

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

  • 2000AD, ed. Matt Smith (Rebellion)
  • Basketful of Heads #1 – Joe Hill (DC)
  • B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know, Vol. 3: Ragna Rok – Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Laurence Campbell et al. (Dark Horse)
  • DCeased #1-6 – Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, Stefano Gaudiano et al. (DC)
  • DIE – Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
  • The Ozone Diary – Pentti Otsamo & Tero Mielonen (Luna Press)

Best Artist

  • Ben Baldwin
  • Vince Haig
  • Jackie Morris
  • David Rix

Best Film / Television Production

  • Game of Thrones: The Long Night – David Benioff & DB Weiss (HBO / Sky Atlantic)
  • Us – Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions et al.)
  • Watchmen: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice – Damon Lindelof (HBO / Sky Atlantic)
  • The Witcher: Rare Species – Haily Hall (Netflix)
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