The 52nd Angoulême International Comics Festival announced its winners on February 2, and Shintaro Kago’s Dementia 21 volume 2 won the Le Fauve de la Série (Series Prize) award.
This year’s Le Prix Konishi (Konishi Award) for translation of a Japanese manga into French went to Kan Takahama’s Ōgishima Saijiki, translated by Yohan Leclerc.
Huber publishes Dementia 21 in French, and Baptiste Neveux is the translator into French.
Last year, Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama’s Four Japanese in San Francisco 1904-1924 (The Four Immigrants Manga) won the Heritage Selection category.