Prix Utopiales Winners 2014

Published November 10, 2014 | By urgaz

Winners of the Prix Utopiales were announced October 31, 2014 at the Nantes Utopiales Festival International de Science-Fiction in Nantes, France. The awards honor works produced by Europeans and published in French, and include a €3,000 prize.

Prix Julia Verlanger (Best SF/F Novel)

L’esprit du Melkine, Olivier Paquet (Editions L’Atalante)

Prix Extraordinaire

Chris Foss

European Youth Prize (Best YA Novel)

Pixel Noir, Jeanne-A Debats (Éditions Syros Jeunesse, 2014)
Honorable mention: Automne, Jan Henrik Nielsen, translated by Aude Pasquier (Éditions Albin Michel, 2014)

Best SF Comic

Punk Rock Jesus, Sean Murphy (Éditions Urban Comics)
Honorable mention: Kanopé, Louise Joor (Éditions Delcourt)

Best Screenplay/RPG

Les Brumes de Saint-Malo (for the game Les Larmes du Cardinal), Pierre Éric Mouton

Best Video Game Made During the Game Jam

Neuromance, Bastien Kerspern (GD), Charles Perinet (GD), Rémi Gourrierec (Graph), Alain Puget (Graph et Dev), Pierre Chabiland (Dev), Louis Godart (SD)

Jury Award – International Short Film Competition

Reset, Marcus Kryler & Fredrik Åkerström (Sweden, 2012)
Honorable mention: Triad, Bradley Oliver-White (Great Britain, 2013)

Audience Award – International Short Film Competition

The Nostalgist, Giacomo Cimini (Great Britain, 2014)

Grand Jury Award – International Short Film Competition

The Midnight After, Fruit Chan (China/Hong Kong, 2014)

Special Jury Mention for Translation

Morse, the creator and investigator of the Sûreté du Québec version of Tusk by Kevin Smith (United States, 2014)

International Competition of Feature Films

Predestination, Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig (Australia, 2014)

The Utopiales European Prize was awarded to Sumerki by Dmitry Glukhovsky, translated by Denis E. Savine (Éditions L’Atalante, 2014). This juried award is given to a novel or collection published in French whose author is a citizen of a country belonging to the European Community, and includes a €2000 prize.