2020 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners
The winners for the 2020 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2019, have been announced:
French Novel
- WINNER: Les Furtifs, Alain Damasio (La Volte)
- Vie™, Jean Baret (Le Bélial’)
- Le Chant mortel du soleil, Franck Ferric (Albin Michel)
- Les Machines fantômes, Olivier Paquet (L’Atalante)
Foreign Novel
- WINNER: Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (L’Atalante)
- Trop semblable à l’éclair [Too Like the Lightning], Ada Palmer (Le Bélial’)
- L’Effondrement de l’empire [The Collapsing Empire], John Scalzi (L’Atalante)
- Chasseurs & Collectionneurs [Hunters & Collectors], M. Suddain (Au diable vauvert)
French Short Fiction
- WINNER: Helstrid, Christian Léourier (Le Bélial’)
- “La Longue patience de la forêt”, Christian Léourier (Bifrost 1/19)
- Faites comme si vous étiez morts, Sammy Sapin (L’Arbre vengeur)
Foreign Short Fiction
- WINNER: Les Meurtres de Molly Southbourne [The Murders of Molly Southbourne], Tade Thompson (Le Bélial’)
- Son corps et autres célébrations [Her Body and Other Parties], Carmen Maria Machado (L’Olivier)
- “La Fille qui saigne” [The Daughter that Bleeds], Shweta Taneja (Galaxies 3/19)
- “ZeroS”, Peter Watts (Bifrost 1/19)
French YA Novel
- WINNER: L’Arrache-mots, Judith Bouilloc (Hachette jeunesse)
- Cogito, Victor Dixen (Robert Laffont)
- Le Démêleur de rêves, Carina Rozenfeld (Scrineo)
- Félines, Stéphane Servant (Rouergue)
- L’Estrange Malaventure de Mirella, Flore Vesco (L’École des loisirs)
Foreign YA Novel
- WINNER: La Faucheuse, tomes 1 à 3 [Scythe, Thunderhead, and The Toll], Neal Shusterman (Robert Laffont)
- L’Anti-magicien, tomes 1 à 4 [Spellslinger, Shadowblack, Charmcaster, and Soulbinder], Sebastien De Castell (Gallimard jeunesse)
- La Voix des ombres [A Skinful of Shadows], Frances Hardinge (Gallimard jeunesse)
- Nevermoor, tomes 1 & 2 [Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow and Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow], Jessica Townsend (Pocket jeunesse)
Jacques Chambon Translation Prize
- WINNER: Michelle Charrier for Trop semblable à l’éclair [Too Like the Lightning], Ada Palmer (Le Bélial’)
- Florence Dolisi for Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bragelonne)
- Laure Hinckel for Solénoïde [Solenoid], Mircea Cărtărescu (Noir sur Blanc)
- Hélène Papot for Son corps et autres célébrations [Her Body and Other Parties], Carmen Maria Machado (L’Olivier)
- Denis E. Savine for Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (L’Atalante)
Wojtek Siudmak Award for Art
- WINNER: Philippe Aureille for Les Îles noires, Sylvie Lainé (Organic)
- Benjamin Carré for L’Alchimie de la pierre, Ekaterina Sedia (Pocket)
- Didier Graffet for Effluvium, Didier Graffet & Xavier Mauméjean (Bragelonne)
- Aurélien Police for Les Machines fantômes, Olivier Paquet (L’Atalante)
- Guillaume Sorel for Nouvelles, tomes 1 & 2, Jack Vance (Le Bélial’)
Non-Fiction
- WINNER: Lovecraft: Je suis Providence, S.T. Joshi (ActuSF)
- La revue Anticipation n°2: L’Odyssée spatiale, Marcus Dupont-Besnard & Jeanne L’Hévéder, eds. (Books on Demand)
- Station Metropolis direction Coruscant, Alain Musset (Le Bélial’)
Prix Spécial
- WINNER: La BnF for the “Tolkien, Voyage en Terre du Milieu” exhibition
- L’Arbre vengeur for their heritage work
- Le Bélial’ for Nouvelles, Jack Vance
- Jean-Pierre Dionnet for his work in the service of pop culture, described in Mes moires, un pont sur les étoiles (Hors Collection)
- Fleur Hopkins for the exhibition “Le Merveilleux scientifique” at the BnF
Winners were announced May 29, 2020. For more information, including the complete winners lists, see the official website.
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