Front row from left: Robert J. Sawyer for Derek Newman-Stille, Hayden Trenholm, Randy McCharles, Clifford Samuels for Naru Dames Sundar
Back row from left: Paul Carreau for Derek Newman-Stille, Samantha Beiko for Erik Mohr, Sandra Kasturi for Vincent Marcone, Eve Silver for John Fawcett and Graeme Manson, Amber van Dyk for Leah Bobet, Bill Robson for Kelly Robson and A.M. Dellamonica
Photo taken by: Michaela Ritchie
The winners of this year’s Aurora Awards were announced at When Words Collide in Calgary, Alberta. There were over 200 people at the ceremony held on Saturday, August 13.
The Aurora Awards are given to Canadian literary and fan works that members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) feel are exceptional.
Best English Novel
A Daughter of No Nation by A.M. Dellamonica, Tor Books
Best English YA Novel
An Inheritance of Ashes by Leah Bobet, Scholastic Canada/Clarion Books
Best English Short Fiction
“Waters of Versailles” by Kelly Robson, Tor.com
Best English Poem/Song
“Origami Crane / Light Defying Spaceship” by Naru Dames Sundar, Liminality, Issue 5 Autumn
Best English Graphic Novel
The Lady ParaNorma by Vincent Marcone, ChiZine Publications
Best English Related Work
Second Contacts edited by Michael Rimar & Hayden Trenholm, Bundoran Press
Best Visual Presentation
Orphan Black, Season 3, John Fawcett and Graeme Manson, Temple Street Productions
Best Artist
Erik Mohr, covers for ChiZine Publications
Best Fan Publication
Speculating Canada edited by Derek Newman-Stille
Best Fan Organizational
Randy McCharles, Chair, When Words Collide, Calgary
Best Fan Related Work
Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating, Canada on Trent Radio 92.7 FM
This year the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) inaugurated a new category: Best Visual Presentation. It is for Television, Film and Stage by Canadians.
And, after 25 years, CSFFA has adopted a new Aurora trophy design. The etched art was created by Bernard Reischl and Clifford Samuels. The trophy has a stone base with a curved jade green glass upper.
Clifford Samuels, Aurora Awards administrator holding trophy at this year’s Nominee Pin ceremony. Photo taken by Michaela Ritchie
Congrats to the winners!
Congrats! “Waters of Versailles” was one of my Hugo nominations, so am esp. happy to see it win.
Congrats to the winners. I, too, nominated Water of Versailles for the Hugo. (I’m curious; why is there no French-language fiction? I though Canada was officially bilingual…)
Cassy B.
There’s another award for French language fiction. Search File 770 for Boreal, I think that will turn it up.
Congrats to all, but I’m especially delighted about An Inheritance of Ashes, for the same reasons lurkertype and Cassy B. felt for Waters of Versailles (which I really must read).
Mike, ah; thank you. That makes perfect sense.
I also am pleased to see Waters of Versailles getting some recognition.
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Robert Sawyer is in the photo and listed under the photo but not in the list of awards. Was he a presenter?
rahilliard: Robert Sawyer is in the photo and listed under the photo but not in the list of awards. Was he a presenter?
I imagine that he was someone who was going to be present, and so was designated recipient for one or more nominees who could not be there.