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The inaugural David Gemmell Legend Award 2008/2009
The inaugural David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy will be awarded to the best fantasy novel of the year (2008). The award has the official support of Stella Gemmell and has been instigated by friends and professional colleagues to celebrate David’s life and literary legacy.
Nominations are currently being sought from editors of every major genre fantasy list for full-length novels, in the English language, first published in 2008. The nominated novels must be deemed fantasy in the spirit of David Gemmell’s own work. All nominated work will be added to a long-list, which will then be voted upon by the reading public on the award website.
Voting will not close until March 2009, to give readers a chance to read, and vote upon, all the nominees. The top five novels will go forward to the Shortlist phase, with the winner decided by a panel of fantasy experts (to be announced on the British Fantasy News website). The award trophy – a replica of Druss the Legend’s famous battle-axe, Snaga – will be presented in June 2009, at a ceremony in London. The organisers hope that the DGLA will soon become the most prestigious award for authors working within the genre fantasy field.
Visit the David Gemmell Legend Award website for further information.
David Gemmell Legend Award website
Email: Admin@GemmellAward.com
Source: British Fantasy Society News
Posted: September 27th, 2008
Author: Lee
Categories: David Gemmell
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