The Bob Morane Award is a french literary prize created in 1999 by Marc Bailly. It is awarded by a jury of French fiction professionals (writers, journalists, critics, collection managers).
It takes its name from the fictional adventurer Bob Morane (Bob Morane is the hero of a series of novels and comics, created in December 1953 by the Belgian writer Henri Vernes, for the paperback series “Marabout Junior” published by the editor André Gérard).
The first selection of Bob Morane Award (1st half of 2015) :
Francophone novels
Jean-Claude Dunyach - “L’instinct du troll” (The Instinct of the Troll), L’Atalante
Yves and Ada Remy - “Le mont 84” (Mount 84), Dystopia Workshop
Laurent Whale - “Le manuscrit Robinson” (The Robinson Manuscript), Critic
Laurent Genefort - “Lum’en”, Le Bélial
Paul Beorn - “Le septième guerrier mage” (The Seventh Magus Warrior), Bragelonne
Jean-Laurent Del Socorro - “Royaume de vent et de colères” (Kingdom of Wind and Anger), Actusf Editions
Manon Fargetton - “L’héritage des rois passeurs” (The Legacy of the Crossing Kings), Bragelonne
Stéphane Przybylski - “Le château des millions d’années” (The Millions Years Castle), Le Bélial
Translated novels
Christopher Priest (UK)- “L’adjacent” (The Adjacent), Denoël (traduit par Jacques Collin)
Alastair Reynolds (UK) - “La terre bleue de nos souvenirs” (Blue Remembered Earth), Bragelonne (translated by Laurent Queyssi)
Chris Beckett (UK) - “Dark Eden“, Presses de la Cité (translated by Laurent-Philibert Caillat)
Marcel Theroux (UK)- “Corps variables” (Strange Bodies), Plon (translated by Stéphane Roques)
Jo Walton (UK-Canada) - “Le cercle de Farthing” (Farthing), Denoël (translated by Luc Carissimo)
Short stories
Phil Becker - “Fleurs de lune” (Moon Flowers), in Fiction Magazine n°20
Sébastien Juillard - “Il faudrait pour grandir oublier la frontière” (To Grow We Should Forget the Border), Scylla
Li Cam - “Asulon”, Griffe D’Encre
Ken Liu (US)- “La ménagerie de papier” (The Paper Menagerie), Le Bélial
Essays
Patrice Louinet - “Le guide Howard” (The Robert E.Howard Guide), Actusf
Richard Comballot - “Philip K. Dick, simulacres et illusions” (Philip K.Dick, Simulacra and Illusions), Actusf