After four editions, the convocation of the V Edition of the FNAC-Sins Entido de Novela Gráfica Awards, which last year had as a winner The wild girl, Mireia Perez. Below I reproduce the Press release:
After the success achieved in the four previous calls, Fnac and Ediciones Sins Entido announce the fifth edition of the International Prize for Graphic Novels, continuing their commitment to promoting literary production in the field of comics.
In its first edition (2007), the award went to the author Jorge González, for 'Fueye', published at the end of 2008. In the second edition (2008), the winners were Guillaume Trouillard and Samuel Stento, for 'La Estación de the arrows'. Esteban Hernández was the winner of the third edition for '¡Pintor!' and Mireia Pérez was the winner for 'The Wild Girl' in the last edition, whose work will be published at the end of 2011.
The deadline for submission of works for this fifth edition is now open and will end on November 30, 2011. The rules that will govern the award are as follows:
Bases
All authors who wish to do so, of any nationality or origin, over 18 years of age, will be able to opt for the Prize, provided that the works they present conform to the commonly accepted concept of graphic novel and meet the following requirements:
· Are written exclusively in Spanish.
· Are original and rigorously unpublished (not published in book format, electronic book, Internet, or serialized in magazines).
· They do not correspond to authors who died prior to the announcement of this call.
· They have not been previously awarded in any other contest, or are pending a decision in any other contest on the date the submission period ends.Works submitted that do not meet the above requirements will not be admitted to the competition.
Work.
The modality to present to the contest is the comic, in its graphic novel format. Each author must send a book proposal with a minimum of sixteen (16) pages finished on one side only; whose final extension, for the winner, will be a minimum of ninety-six (96) pages. It may be presented in black and white or color, attaching a dossier containing the sixteen (16) finished pages, with their corresponding title, in printed copies in DIN-A4 format, plus a detailed synopsis (two (2) pages to one single side at least) with the content of the full story.
Said copies (original work will not be accepted), will be accompanied by the data of the author or authors: name, surname, address, telephone, email and photocopy of ID, passport or any other legally accepted identification document.
Shipping.
The works will be sent or delivered, indicating in the envelope "V International Prize for Graphic Novel Fnac-Sins Entido", at the following postal address: Ediciones Sins Entido / Paseo de la Castellana 8, 1 right, 28046 Madrid / info @ sinsentido. it is
Projects sent by email or on media other than printed paper will not be accepted (therefore, shipments on CD, DVD, pen drives, or similar are excluded).
Deadlines
The deadline for the admission of proposals will be closed on November 30, 2011.
The jury will meet at the end of 2011 and the decision will be announced in January 2012. The winning author will commit to deliver the finished project in the last week of June 2012. The winning work will be published at the end of 2012.
Non-awarded works will not be returned. As they are not original, they will be destroyed once the process is finished.
5. Composition of the Jury
The jury will be made up of cultural professionals and will be appointed for this purpose by the promoting entities, which reserve the possibility for a reading committee to select from the originals presented as many finalists as it deems appropriate.
6. Prize and decision of the Jury
A single and indivisible prize of 10.000 euros will be awarded (to be paid in two payments: 50% of the amount after communication of the ruling; and the remaining 50% at the time of publication). The winning work will be published by Ediciones Sins Entido, which will be responsible for the production and edition, and the winner will sign a contract with this publisher for a period of 10 years, renewable and with a royalty percentage of 8%. The awarding of the award implies that Ediciones Sins entido will exclusively manage all the exploitation rights of the work, in all countries and for all languages, as well as all publishing rights in all media.
At the same time, Fnac reserves the right to organize with the originals of the winning work an exhibition that could be exhibited in its galleries, both in Spain and in other countries.The amount of the award will be subject to the legislation on withholding tax regulations.
The jury's decision will be unappealable, the award may not be declared void or distributed between two or more works and will be awarded to that work among those presented that unanimously or failing that, by majority vote of the jury, is considered worthy of be awarded.
Distribution and public presentation
The winning work will be distributed by Sins Entido, and Fnac will guarantee its special implementation and communication in all its commercial spaces.
The public presentation of the award will take place in one of the Fnac Forum, the one that the Organization deems most appropriate.
The fact of taking part in the contest implies the full acceptance of these bases.
About Fnac
Fnac is the leading distributor in Europe of technical and cultural products, and constitutes a unique example of an alliance between commerce and culture. Created in 1954 in France, it is currently part of the PPR Group and has 145 stores spread over seven countries (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Brazil).
Its implementation in Spain began in December 1993, in Madrid's Calle Preciados and it is already an unavoidable benchmark for both programming and cultural consumption in Spain. Fnac has 21 physical stores plus the virtual one, www.fnac.es. In addition to Madrid, it is also present in Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Zaragoza, Asturias, San Sebastián, Murcia, Bilbao, Marbella, Malaga, Seville and A Coruña.Contact:
Cynthia Castineira Souto
Press Department Fnac Spain
Tlf: 917689173 // Email: prensa@fnac.es