Mejor Novela Original (Best Original Novel)

• WINNER: Animales difíciles, Rosa Montero (Seix Barral)

• Impía, J.V. Gachs (Dolmen)
• U.N.I., Antonio Garber (Menoscuarto)
• Salitre y cenizas, Carlos Di Urarte (El transbordador)

Mejor Novela Traducida (Best Translated Novel)

• WINNER: El vado de los zorros [Fox Fords], Anna Starobinets, tr. Viktoria Leftérova & Enrique Maldonado (Impedimenta)

• Los diablos [The Devils], Joe Abercrombie, tr. Manu Viciano (Runas)
• El reformatorio [The Reformatory], Tananarive Due, tr. María Pérez de San Román (La biblioteca de Carfax)
• El diablo te lleva a casa [The Devil Takes You Home], Gabino Iglesias, tr. Miguel Sanz Jiménez (La biblioteca de Carfax)

Mejor Novela Juvenil Original (Best Original YA Novel)

Mejor Novela Juvenil Traducida (Best Translated YA Novel)

The winner of Mejor Portada Edición Española (Best Spanish Edition Cover) was Borja González for Ogros [Ogres] by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Dolmen).

Winners will be honored during the Celsius 232 festival, to be held July 14-18, 2026 in Avilés, Spain. For more information, see the Kelvin 505 website.

• WINNER: “A Blade Drawn from Envy”, Ty Ogunade
• RUNNER-UP: “There Will Come Soft Rains”, Jessica Tsang

• “A Song of Shir’ja”, Harps Aujla
• “Zonbi”, Zarah Elouis-Ro
• “Crooked Straits”, Olivia Ho
• “One Thousand and One Wishes”, Rakan Khashman
• “The Sun Wells”, Aiden Ng
• “A Corruption of Death”, Hadiyah Sama

The judges of the Prize included Carolynne Bain, Ese Erheriene, Eric Huang, Nahrein Kemp, and Chris Pak. The winner receives £4,500, the runner-up £2,500, and the remaining six each receive £850. All eight will receive mentoring from the prize’s publishing partners. The award is funded by author Ben Aaronovitch and actor Adjoa Andoh.

For more information, see the prize’s website.