The English-language and French-language Prix Aurora Awards have been split this year, “by the agreement between CSFFA and SFSF Boréal.” The French awards were combined with the Prix Boréal to become the Prix Aurora Boréal, which were handed out this weekend at Boreal Conference in Montreal, Quebec.
The English-language Prix Aurora Awards will be announced at SFContario 2, which will also be Canvention 31, 18-20 November in Toronto, Ontario. See this article for the recently released final ballot for this year’s awards.
The Prix Aurora Boréal winners and nominees were:
Best Novel: The Dragon Slayer by Heloise Côté (Alire)
     Other nominees:
Espèces by Ying Chen (Boréal)
Le serrurier by Mathieu Fortin (Coups de tête)
Best Short Fiction: “Pour l’honneur d’un Nohaum” by Philippe-Aubert Côté (Solaris 176)
     Other nominees:
“Sintara et le scarabée de Mechæom” by Dominic Bellavance (Les Six Brumes)
“Entre les bras des amants réunis (révision)” by Claude Bolduc (Entre les bras des amants réunis, Vents d’Ouest)
“Les pantoufles de Louis XVI” by Geneviève Fournier-Goulet (Solaris 175)
“L’Aquilon” by Carl Rocheleau (Les Six Brumes)
Best Related Work: Solaris (edited by Joël Champetier)
     Other nominees:
Entre les bras des amants réunis edited by Claude Bolduc (Vents d’Ouest)
Morphoses edited by Mathieu Fortin (Les Six Brumes)
“Amazing Stories et l’émergence de la science-fiction” by Marc Ross Gaudreault (Solaris 176)
Reviews by Guillaume Voisine (Brins d’éternité 26-27)
Best Audiovisual Art: Sybiline by Chantal Lajoie (covers of Solaris 173, Solaris 175, and Brins d’éternité 26)
     Other nominees:
illustrations in Entités 2: Trahisons by Olivier Carpentier
illustrations in Solaris 176 by Karine Charlebois
covers of Solaris 174, Solaris 176, and La Tueuse de dragons by Grégory Fromenteau
covers of Morphoses and Sintara et le scarabée de Mechæom by Gabrielle Leblanc
covers of Brins d’éternité 27 et Nexuz3 5 by Marc Pageau)
Best Fan Publication: Brins d’éternité (fanzine)
     Other nominees:
Ariane Gélinas (blog)
Asile (fanzine)
Jonathan Reynolds (blog)
Richard Tremblay (blog)