Jonathan Cape author Bryan Talbot’s latest graphic novel Grandville Mon Amour has been nominated in the Best Graphic Story category of the prestigious Hugo Awards.

The Hugo Awards, established in 1953, are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society to the best writing in science and speculative fiction.

Talbot says, ‘I'm absolutely delighted and honoured that Grandville Mon Amour is nominated for a Hugo Award. As a long time science fiction reader, writer and illustrator and occasional guest and attendee at SF cons, it is a genuine pleasure simply to be nominated for this prestigious and legendary prize. The recent introduction of the "Best Graphic Story" category to the Awards is, in itself, a cause for celebration and long overdue considering the coming of age of the graphic novel form over the last two decades and it's wonderful that the awards are introducing science fiction prose readers to this powerful medium.’

The full shortlist is Fables: Witches, written by Bill Willingham; illustrated by Mark Buckingham; Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, written by Phil and Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio; colors by Cheyenne Wright; Grandville Mon Amour, by Bryan Talbot; Schlock Mercenary: Massively Parallel, written and illustrated by Howard Tayler; colors by Howard Tayler and Travis Walton; The Unwritten, Volume 2: Inside Man, written by Mike Carey; illustrated by Peter Gross.

The winners will be announced Saturday, August 20th, 2011 at Worldcon in Nevada, USA.