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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