{"id":6917,"date":"2009-11-01T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=6917"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:17:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:17:29","slug":"fabrice-tortey-wins-le-grand-prix-de-limaginaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/fabrice-tortey-wins-le-grand-prix-de-limaginaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrice Tortey wins <em>Le Grand Prix de l\u2019Imaginaire<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6919 alignnone\" title=\"fabrice_award_announcement\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fabrice_award_announcement.jpg\" alt=\"fabrice_award_announcement\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fabrice_award_announcement.jpg 500w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fabrice_award_announcement-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back <a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=5614\">in this post<\/a> I clued you in that a pair of French Howard books, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moutons-electriques.fr\/livre.php?p=intro&amp;n=40\"><em>Les nombreuses vies de Conan<\/em><\/a> (edited by Simon Sanahujas) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/%C3%89chos-Cimm%C3%A9rie-Hommage-Robert-Howard\/dp\/2914405510\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246652235&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>\u00c9chos de Cimm\u00e9rie<\/em><\/a> (edited by longtime <em>Cimmerian<\/em> subscriber Fabrice Tortey) were among the nominees in the &#8220;Essay&#8221; category for Le Grand Prix de l\u2019Imaginaire, a prestigious French award dedicated to Sci-fi, Weird &amp; Fantasy fiction. Well, the results are in, and Fabrice&#8217;s <em>\u00c9chos de Cimm\u00e9rie<\/em> took home the loot.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Fabrice (right) holding up his award certificate with his REH pal, runner-up Simon Sanahujas, playing the good sport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6918 alignnone\" title=\"fabrice_simon_award\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fabrice_simon_award.jpg\" alt=\"fabrice_simon_award\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fabrice_simon_award.jpg 500w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fabrice_simon_award-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those of you who went to Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains last June were able to meet Fabrice &#8212; and if you subscribed to the print <em>Cimmerian<\/em> you&#8217;ve already read a trio of the essays from  <em>\u00c9chos de Cimm\u00e9rie <\/em>in English translation &#8212; so you know how both editor and  book were eminently award-worthy. Congratulations to Fabrice for striking such a solid blow for Howard scholarship in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in this post I clued you in that a pair of French Howard books, Les nombreuses vies de Conan (edited by Simon Sanahujas) and \u00c9chos de Cimm\u00e9rie (edited by longtime Cimmerian subscriber Fabrice Tortey) were among the nominees in the &#8220;Essay&#8221; category for Le Grand Prix de l\u2019Imaginaire, a prestigious French award dedicated to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-reputation","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16694,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions\/16694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}