2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners
The winners of the 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2021, have been announced.
French Novel
- WINNER: Vivonne, Jérôme Leroy (La Table ronde)
- Citadins de demain, Claire Duvivier (Aux forges de Vulcain)
- Nous sommes les chasseurs, Jérémy Fel (Rivages)
- La Nuit du faune, Romain Lucazeau (Albin Michel)
- Feminicid, Christophe Siébert (Au diable vauvert)
Foreign Novel
- WINNER: Notre part de nuit, Mariana Enriquez (Le Sous-sol)
- Les Maîtres enlumineurs tomes 1 & 2 [Foundryside and Shorefall], Robert Jackson Bennett (Albin Michel)
- Andrea Cort tomes 1 & 2 [Emissaries from the Dead and The Third Claw of God], Adam-Troy Castro (Albin Michel)
- La Monture [The Mount], Carol Emshwiller (Argyll)
- Lazare attend [Lazarus Is Waiting], James Morrow (Au diable vauvert)
- L’Interdépendance tomes 1 à 3 [The Collapsing Empire, The Consuming Fire, The Last Emperox], John Scalzi (L’Atalante)
French Short Fiction
- WINNER: Plasmas (recueil), Céline Minard (Rivages)
- “Collisions par temps calme”, Stéphane Beauverger (La Volte)
- “Meurtre dans la douceur”, Jérôme Leroy (Renaissances)
- “Le Récit recyclé”, Flore Vesco (Elle est le vent furieux)
Foreign Short Fiction
- WINNER: Tous les noms qu’ ils donnaient à Dieu [All the Names They Used for God], Anjali Sachdeva (Albin Michel)
- Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
- Fournaise [Furnace], Livia Llewellyn (Dystopia)
- Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Le Bélial’)
- Le Livre écorné de ma vie [Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life], Lucius Shepard (Le Bélial’)
French YA Novel
- WINNER: Prospérine Virgule-Point et la Phrase sans fin, Laure Dargelos (Rivka)
- La Honte de la Galaxie, Alexis Brocas (Sarbacane)
- La Sourcière, Élise Fontenaille (Rouergue)
- D’Or et d’Oreillers, Flore Vesco (L’École des loisirs)
Foreign YA Novel
- WINNER: Les Guerriers orphelins [Tales of the Otori], Lian Hearn (Gallimard jeunesse)
- Daevabad tomes 1 & 2 [The City of Brass and The Kingdom of Copper], S.A. Chakraborty (De Saxus)
Jacques Chambon Translation Prize
- WINNER: Mathilde Montier for Les Tambours du Dieu noir et Ring Shout [The Black God’s Drums and Ring Shout], P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
- Patrick Couton for Le Livre de Koli [The Book of Koli], M.R. Carey (L’Atalante)
- Benoît Domis for Andrea Cort tomes 1 & 2 [Emissaries from the Dead and The Third Claw of God], Adam-Troy Castro (Albin Michel)
- Gilles Goullet for Un Souvenir nommé empire [A Memory Called Empire], Arkady Martine (Nouveaux Millénaires)
- Anne Plantagenet for Notre part de nuit [Nuestra parte de noche], Mariana Enriquez (Le Sous-sol)
Wojtek Siudmak Award for Art
- WINNER: Elena Vieillard for Citadins de demain, Claire Duvivier and Le Sang de la Cité, Guillaume Chamanadjian (Aux forges de Vulcain)
- Zdzislaw Beksinski for L’Intégrale, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Mnémos)
- Benjamin Carré for Les Tambours du Dieu noir [The Black God’s Drums], P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
- Dorian Danielsen & Véronique Meignaud for Le Livre de Koli [The Book of Koli], M.R. Carey (L’Atalante)
- Stephan Martinière for Le Mystère du tramway hanté [The Haunting of Tram Car 015], P. Djèlí Clark (L’Atalante)
- Aurélien Police for Les Ancêtres [The Erstwhile], Brian Catling (Fleuve)
Non-Fiction
- WINNER: “La Pulpe et la Moëlle” (préface), Serge Lehman (Maîtres du vertige)
- La revue Anticipation n° 3 – Les mondes post-apocalyptiques (Books on Demand)
- Apparitions. Les archives de la France hantée, Philippe Baudouin (Hoebeke)
- Les Pouvoirs de l’enchantement, Anne Besson (Vendémiaire)
- Apocalypse Show, quand l’Amérique s’effondre, Anne-Lise Melquiond (Playlist Society)
- James Graham Ballard et le cauchemar consumériste, Thierry Paquot (Le Passager clandestin)
Prix Spécial
- WINNER: Alain Sprauel for his meticulous and tireless work as a bibliographer of l’Imaginaire, and in particular Stephen King’s 2021 bibliography
- The anthology of the first Hypermondes festival, dedicated to robots (Electric sheep)
- Atelier Akatombo for their view of Japanese SF, through the anthology La Machine à indifférence
- Gérard Klein for his writings devoted to the analysis of science fiction, collected in Le Livre des préfaces (Livre de poche & Quarante-Deux)
Winners will be honored during the Étonnants Voyageurs festival in Saint-Malo, France to be held June 4-6 2022. For more information, see the official website.
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