2020 and 2021 Prix Utopiales Winners

Winners of the 2020 and 2021 Prix Utopiales Awards, (for best French SF), Prix Utopiales Jeunesse Awards (for best French SF for young adults), and Prix Utopiales Bande Dessinée (for best French comic book) were announced at the Nantes International Science Fiction Festival, held October 29 – November 1, 2021 at the Nantes Convention Center in Nantes, France.

Prix Utopiales 2021

  • After®, Auriane Velten (Mnémos)

Prix Utopiales 2020

  • Rosewater, Tade Thompson (J’ai lu)

Prix Utopiales Jeunesse 2021

  • Félicratie, H. Lenoir (Sarbacane)

Prix Utopiales Jeunesse 2020

  • Et le désert disparaîtra, Marie Pavlenko (Flammarion Jeunesse)

Prix Utopiales BD 2021

  • Carbone & Silicium, Mathieu Bablet (Ankama)

Prix Utopiales BD 2020

  • Mécanique Céleste, Merwan (Dargaud)

Winners in each Utopiales category receive €2,000.

Prix Julia Verlanger 2021

  • Against the Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Denoël)

The Julia Verlanger Award was created by Jean-Pierre Verlanger in memory of his wife, who wrote under the pseudonym Gilles Thomas.

Joëlle Wintrebert received the Prix Extraordinaire 2021. Prizes were also given in gaming and film categories.


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