2024 Prix Imaginales Winners

Winners have been announced for the 2024 Prix Imaginales, honoring the best works of fantasy published in France.

French Novel

  • WINNER: Du thé pour les fantômes, Chris Vuklisevik (Denoël)
  • Avant la forêt, Julia Colin, (Aux forges de Vulcain)
  • Méduse, Martine Desjardins (L’Atalante)
  • L’Armée fantoche Capitale du Nord, tome 3, Claire Duvivier (Aux forges de Vulcain)
  • Le Palais au-delà de la mer, Xénia Vetsera (Du Chat Noir)

Foreign Novel Translated

  • WINNER: Sauvage [Sauvage], Joan Mickelson, translated by Joan Mickelson (Hachette Heroes)
  • L’Ombre des Dieux [A Time of Dread], John Gwynne, translated by Thomas Bauduret (Leha)
  • Le Pays sans lune [The Spear Cuts Through Water], Simon JIMENEZ, translated by Patrick Dechense (Nouveaux Millénaires)
  • Babel, Rebecca F. Kuang, translated by Michel Pagel (De Saxus)
  • La Sirène de Black Conch [The Mermaid of Black Conch], Monique Roffey, translated by Gerty Dambury (Mémoire d’Encrier)

Young Adult

  • WINNER: Mille Pertuis: La Sorcière sans nombril, de Julia Thévenot (Gallimard jeunesse)
  • Les Magni-Freaks, Gaspard Flamant (Sarbacane)
  • Supernova: L’Académie des Constellationnistes, Axelle Ménéglier (Robert Laffont)
  • Les Jumeaux Crochemort: La Malédiction, Cassandra O’Donnell (Flamarion jeunesse)
  • Les Maudits de Faerywood, Amandine Peter (Explora)

Illustration

  • WINNER: François Schuiten for Les Cités obscures, le retour du Capitaine Nemo, François Schuiten & Benoît Peeters (Casterman)
  • Rébecca Dautremer for Une chose formidable, Rébecca Dautremer (Sarbacane)
  • Nicolas Zouliamis for Monstres, Stéphane Servant (Thierry Magnier)

Comic Book

  • WINNER: Les Murailles invisibles, tome 1, Alex Chauvel, illustrated by Ludovic Rio (Dargaud)
  • Latah, Thomas Legrain (Le Lombard)
  • Frontier, Guillaume Singlelin (Rue de Sèvres)

Picture Book

  • WINNER: Fjord, Willy Wanggen, (Hong Fei)
  • Les Trois comuples bourrus [The Three Billy Goats Gruff], Mac Barnett, translated by Alain Gnaedig, illustrated by Jon Klassen, (L’École des loisirs)
  • La Vie à la montagne, César Canet (Sarbacane)
  • Les Formidable Journées de Piloursine, Emmanuelle Houdart (Thierry Magnier)
  • L’Aventurier, Kiko (L’Élan vert)

For more information, visit the Prix Imaginales website.


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