2014 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners

The Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire is a French literary prize dedicated to speculative fiction, created in 1974 by writer and critic Jean-Pierre Fontana at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival of Science Fiction. It’s the oldest active French SF/F award.

The winners of the 2014 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire are:

Francophone Novel
“Anamnèse de Lady Star” (Lady Star’s Anamnesis) by L.L. Kloetzer (Denoël, Lunes d’Encre)

Foreign Novel
“The Man Who Spoke Snakish”(L’Homme qui savait la langue des serpents)  by Andrus Kivirähk (Estonia); Le Tripode Publishing House

Francophone Short Story
“7 secondes pour devenir un aigle” (7 Seconds to Become An Eagle) (collection) by Thomas Day ( Belial’)

Foreign Short Story
“Complications”/”Silver Wind” (collection ) by Nina Allan (UK) ; Tristram Publishing House

Young Adult Francophone Novel
“Animale. La Malédiction de Boucle d’or” (Animal. The Goldilocks’ Curse) by Victor Dixen (Gallimard Jeunesse)

Foreign Young Adult Novel
“Maggot Moon” (Une Planète dans la tête) by Sally Gardner (UK);  Gallimard Jeunesse Publishing House

Jacques Chambon Award for Translation
Bernard Sigaud for “Complications“/Silver Wind (collection) byNina Allan (UK ; Tristram Publishing House )

Wojtek Siudmak Award for Illustration
Didier Graffet for the cover’s illustration of “Steampunk – De vapeur et d’acier” (Steampunk – From Steam and Steel) by Xavier Mauméjean ( Le Pré clerics )

Comics
“Souvenirs de l’empire de l’atome” (Memories from the Atom’s Empire) by Alexandre Clérisse & Thierry Smolderen (Dargaud )

Manga
“The Arms Peddler” (volumes 1-6 ) by Kyoichi Nanatsuki & Night Owl (Ki-oon)

Essay
“Souvenirs du futur. Les Miroirs de la Maison d’Ailleurs” (Memories of the Future. The Mirrors of the House of Elsewhere)  – editors Marc Atallah, Frédéric JaccaudandFrancis Valéry (Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes)

Special Award
The simultaneous edition of the Stefan Wul’s works at Bragelonne Publishing House (L’Intégrale Stefan Wul) and ”The Universe of Stefan Wul” at Ankama Publishing House, the comics adaptations of novels by D. Cassegrain, Mr. Hawthorne , D. Lapiere,  J.-D.Morvan, M. Reynes, O. Vatine, Yann.

The Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire will be presented June 18 at the Maison de l’Imaginaire (The House of the Imaginary), during the  Saint-Malo Étonnants Voyageurs Festival.