2019 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners

Locus Magazine, Science Fiction FantasyWinners of the 2019 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2018, have been announced:

French Novel

  • WINNER: Le Cycle de Syffe, tomes 1 & 2, Patrick K. Dewdney (Au diable vauvert)
  • BonheurTM, Jean Baret (Le Bélial’)
  • Dernières fleurs avant la fin du monde, Nicolas Cartelet (Mü Éditions)
  • Rouille, Floriane Soulas (Scrineo)
  • Les Pierres et les Roses, tomes 1 à 3, Elisabeth Vonarburg (Alire)

Foreign Novel

  • WINNER: Underground Airlines, Ben H. Winters (ActuSF)
  • Mémoires, par Lady Trent, volumes 1-5 [The Memoirs of Lady Trent: A Natural History of Dragons, The Tropic of Serpents, Voyage of the Basilisk, In the Labyrinth of Drakes, and Within the Sanctuary of Wings], Marie Brennan (L’Atalante)
  • Luna, volumes 1 & 2 [Luna: New Moon and Luna: Wolf Moon], Ian McDonald (Denoël)
  • Anatèm, volumes 1 & 2 [Anathem], Neal Stephenson (Albin Michel)
  • Les Chroniques de St Mary, volumes 1 & 2 [The Chronicles of St Mary’s: Just One Damned Thing After Another and A Symphony of Echoes], Jodi Taylor (Hervé Chopin)
  • Dans la toile du temps [Children of Time], Adrian Tchaikovsky (Denoël)

French Short Fiction

  • WINNER: “La Déferlante des Mères”, Luc Dagenais (Solaris 7/18)
  • “H+”, Pierre Bordage (Dimension Technosciences @ venir 10/18)
  • “Ex silentio”, Olivier Caruso (Bifrost 7/18)
  • “Le Patient aveugle”, Cécile Ladjali (L’Autre siècle)

Foreign Short Fiction

  • WINNER: “Voyage avec l’extraterrestre” [Touring with the Alien], Carolyn Ives Gilman (Bifrost 7/18)
  • “La vérité est une caverne dans les Montagnes noires” [The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains], Neil Gaiman (Signal d’alerte)
  • “OrgHôtes” [HostBods], Tendai Huchu (Galaxies 9/18)
  • “L’Obélisque martien” [The Martian Obelisk], Linda Nagata (Bifrost 1/18)
  • “Retour à la maison” [The Homecoming], Mike Resnick (Galaxies 7/18)

French YA Novel

  • WINNER: Roslend, tomes 1 à 3, Nathalie Somers (Didier Jeunesse)
  • Rhizome, Nadia Coste (Seuil Jeunesse)
  • Les Plieurs de temps, tomes 1 à 4, Manon Fargetton (Rageot)
  • Power Club, tomes 1 à 3, Alain Gagnol (Syros)
  • La Mémoire des couleurs, Stéphane Michaka (Pocket Jeunesse)

Foreign YA Novel

  • WINNER: Diego et les rangers du Vastlantique [Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic], Armand Baltazar (Bayard)
  • L’Anti-magicien, tomes 1 & 2 [Spellslinger and Shadowblack], Sebastien de Castell (Gallimard Jeunesse)
  • L’Ars Arcana [The Last Magician], Lisa Maxwell (Casterman)
  • Shades of Magic, tomes 1 à 3 [A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, and A Conjuring of Light], V.E. Schwab (Lumen)
  • La Faucheuse, tomes 1 et 2 [Scythe and Thunderhead], Neal Shusterman (Robert Laffont)

Jacques Chambon Translation Prize

  • WINNER: Jacques Collin for Anatèm, tomes 1 & 2 [Anathem], Neal Stephenson (Albin Michel)
  • Michelle Charrier for Les Livres de la Terre fracturée, tomes 1 à 3 [The Broken Earth trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky], N.K. Jemisin (Nouveaux Millénaires)
  • Mélanie Fazi for Sixième du crépuscule [Sixth of the Dusk], Brandon Sanderson (Livre de Poche)
  • Francis Guévremont for Invasion, Luke Rhinehart (Aux Forges de Vulcain)
  • luvan for Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (La Volte)

Wojtek Siudmak Award for Art

  • WINNER: Nicolas Fructus for La Quête onirique de Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Le Bélial’)
  • Armand Baltazar for Diego et les rangers du Vastlantique, Armand Baltazar (Bayard)
  • Adrian Borda for Musiques d’Outre-mondes (Arkuiris)
  • Jamie Gregory for Marqués, Alice Broadway (Pocket jeunesse)
  • Jeam Tag for Rétrofictions, Guy Costes & Joseph Altairac (Encrage)

Non-Fiction

  • WINNER: Libère-toi cyborg! le pouvoir transformateur de la science-fiction féministe, ïan Larue (Cambourakis)
  • Dictionnaire de la fantasy, Anne Besson, director (Vendémiaire)
  • Comment parler à un alien? Langage et linguistique en science-fiction, Frédéric Landragin (Le Bélial’)
  • Hors des décombres du monde, Yannick Rumpala (Champ Vallon)

Prix Spécial

  • WINNER: Guy Costes & Joseph Altairac for their career as scholars and collectors for over 40 years, including their monumental work Retrofictions.

Winners were awarded at the Étonnants Voyageurs festival in Saint-Malo France, June 9, 2019. For more information, see the official website.


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