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Laurent Wins 2024 Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles

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Author Magali Laurent has won the Prix Jeunesse Des Univers Parallèles 2024 (Youth Prize for Parallel Universes) for her novel Fièvre bleue.

The announcement took place April 10 at the International Book Fair in Québec after a meeting between the three finalist authors and high school students who have read the nominated works during the past academic year.

The other finalists were Le monde paranormal d’Odile by Ariane Charlan, and Équinoxe d’automne (La sorcière d’hiver, #1) by Gabrielle Dubé

A $2,000 scholarship is awarded to the winner – this is the second time Laurent has won.

The prize was created to raise a taste for reading among lower secondary school students and to introduce them, through a school activity, to the literature of science fiction and fantasy.

[Based on a press release.]

Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles 2023 Winner

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Author Karine Lambert won the Prix Jeunesse Des Univers Parallèles 2023 (Youth Prize for Parallel Universes) for her novel Le Bal des monstres (Éditions Héritage). The award is given to the best children’s sff novel by vote of high school students in Quebec.

The announcement was made at the Salon international du livre de Québec, a gathering of the authors of the finalists and students who have read the nominated works this school year. A $2,000 prize was presented to the Lambert.

The two other finalists were Chroniques post-apocalyptiques d’une jeune entêtée by Annie Bacon (Bayard Canada) and Le Calcinateur entre en scène (La Légende marvinienne #1) by Bryan Perro (Éditions Scarab). 

The three finalists were chosen from among the 18 titles in the running by a panel composed of Nancy Gamache, teacher at École L’Odyssée, in Quebec City, Hélène Boudreault, youth author, and Jean-Philippe Marcoux-Fortier, librarian in the library network of the City of Quebec.

Over 200 students voted on the winning novel. They came from thirteen secondary schools, both public and private, in eight regions administrative authorities of Quebec.

Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles 2022 Winner

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Author Magali Laurent has won the Prix Jeunesse Des Univers Parallèles 2021 (Youth Prize for Parallel Universes) for her novel Demi-vie, Vol. 1 of Rupture (Éditions de Mortagne).

The award is given to the best children’s sff novel by vote of high school students in Quebec. Lower secondary students wishing to help choose the winner read the three finalists during the 2021-2022 school year as part of the French course or as members of their library’s book club.

The winner receives a $2,000 scholarship funded in large part by the two main sponsors of the prize, the Jacques Brossard Trust and Marquis imprimeur.

The award was announced at the end of a meeting at the Salon international du livre de Québec which brought together the three shortlisted authors and Quebec City area high school students who had read their novels.

Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles 2021 Winner

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Author Véronique Drouin  has won the Prix Jeunesse Des Univers Parallèles 2021 (Youth Prize for Parallel Universes) for her science fiction novel Thérapie de choc [Shock Therapy] (Les Malins), first novel in the C.R.A.A.V. series.

The novel by Véronique Drouin multiplies the shocking scenes in the tradition of horror cinema while presenting a young girl who will gain confidence and determination over the trials which manifest themselves at the Rehabilitation Center for Anxious and Vulnerable Adolescents (CRAAV). In contact with young people marked like her by trauma and through group therapy, Marion slowly manages to overcome her anxiety and her fears.

The award is given to the best children’s sff novel by vote of high school students in Quebec. Lower secondary students wishing to participate in the choice of winner read these novels during the 2020-2021 school year as part of the French course or as members of their library’s book club.

The school year having been greatly disrupted by the pandemic, the number of students who were able to read the three finalist novels was far below the average recorded since the creation of the prize in 2006. Only five schools were able to register the choice of their participating students for a total of 95 votes.

Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles 2022 Finalists

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The selection committee for Quebec’s Prix jeunesse des univers parallèles 2022 (the Parallel Universe Youth Award) has chosen three novels as finalists. They are:

  • Lucy Wolvérène, Vol. 1 of Les Cristaux d’Orléans, by Sandra Dussault (Éditions Québec Amérique),
  • Demi-vie, Vol. 1 of Rupture, by Magali Laurent (Éditions de Mortagne)
  • Nouvel-Éden, Vol. 1 of L’Arc-en-ciel noir by Maude Royer (Éditions Scarab).

The award is given to the best children’s sff novel by vote of high school students in Quebec. Lower secondary students wishing to participate in the choice of winner will read these novels during the 2021-2022 school year as part of the French course or as members of their library’s book club.

The selection committee was made up of Annie Bacon, writer for young people, Claudine Grenier, French teacher at the Collège Jésus-Marie in Quebec City, and Hélène Moisan, librarian and coordinator for the Quebec City library network. Of the eighteen novels submitted to the selection committee, fifteen were by women.

The book voted the winner of the Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles for 2021 will be announced in mid-June.

Dussault Wins Prix Jeunesse Des Univers Parallèles 2020

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Author Sandra Dussault has won the Prix Jeunesse Des Univers Parallèles 2020 (Youth Prize for Parallel Universes) for her science fiction novel Le Programme (Éditions Québec Amérique).

Gradually lifting the veil on the challenges of the Special Program for Mineurs Meurtriers (PSMM), the novel exposes the extent of the moral drift of a dehumanized society.Subjects such as ethics and the application of justice constitute the backdrop on which unfolds a moving story of survival, resilience and friendship.

The award is given to the best children’s sff novel by vote of high school students in Quebec. Two hundred twenty-seven lower secondary students who wished to participate in choosing the winner read these novels during the 2019-2020 school year as part of the French course or as members of their library’s book club.

The other finalists were Nozophobia by Mathieu Fortin (Bayard Canada) and Anna Caritas tome 1: Le Sacrilège by Patrick Isabelle (Les Malins). 

Dussault’s novel previously won the 2019 City of Quebec Literary Prize / Quebec International Book Fair.

Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles 2021 Finalists

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The selection committee for Quebec’s Prix jeunesse des univers parallèles 2021 (the Parallel Universe Youth Award) has chosen three novels as finalists from among 18 works in the running. These are

  • Lac Adélard by François Blais (La courte échelle)
  • C.R.A.A.V. 1. Thérapie de choc by Véronique Drouin (Les Malins)
  • À une minute près by André Marois (Leméac)

The award is given to the best children’s sff novel by vote of high school students in Quebec. Lower secondary students wishing to participate in the choice of winner will read these novels during the 2020-2021 school year as part of the French course or as members of their library’s book club.

The committee was made up of Sonia Sarfati, cultural journalist and author, Julie Morin, librarian at the Kamouraska – Rivière-du-Loup school board, and Marie-Luce Higgins, teacher at La Camaradière school in Quebec.

The book voted the winner of the Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles for 2020 will be announced in mid-June.

Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles 2019

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Quebec author Véronique Drouin is the winner of the Prix jeunesse des univers parallèles 2019 (the Parallel Universe Youth Award) for her fantastic novel Cassandra Mittens and the Divine Touch (Éditions Québec Amérique).

Cassandra Mittens heroine of a story set in the late 19th century, must discern the false friends from the real ones surrounding her so that her divine touch (her ability to read in the minds of people at the mere touch of the skin) serves the good and fair.

The other two award finalists were:

  • Jocelyn Boisvert: Les Moustiques (Soulières Editor)
  • Gilles Côtes: 2099, the robotic brother (Éditions du Phoenix)

The winner was determined by the vote of 252 high school students from 12 schools in different regions of Quebec.

Véronique Drouin was also a finalist in 2006 during the first year of the award.

Véronique Drouin