The 2020 Prix Imaginales finalists were announced on May 2.
The Prix Imaginales recognize the best works of fantasy of the year published in France in six categories, with a prize of 1,000 euros for the first five categories and 500 euros for the last two.
A jury composed of critics, journalists and specialists selected the nominees: Jacques Grasser (Président), Stéphane Wieser (Directeur du Festival), Christophe de Jerphanion, Natacha Vas-Deyres, Lloyd Chéry, and Frédérique Roussel.
The awards would have been given at Imaginales, the Festival of the Imaginary Worlds in Épinal, France, this weekend, however, it is one of the myriad events cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.
[NOTE: The Prix Imaginales is a different award than the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.]
Catégorie roman francophone / French novel
- Jean-Luc A. D’ASCIANO, Souviens-toi des monstres (Aux Forges de Vulcain)
- Jean-Laurent DEL SOCORRO, Je suis fille de rage (ActuSF)
- Catherine DUFOUR, Danse avec les lutins (L’Atalante)
- Franck FERRIC, Le Chant mortel du Soleil (Albin Michel)
- Alex NIKOLAVITCH, Trois coracles cinglaient vers le couchant (Les Moutons électriques)
Catégorie roman étranger traduit / Foreign Novel translated into French
- Katherine ARDEN, L’Ours et le rossignol [The Bear and the Nightengale] (Denoël) Translated into French by Jacques COLLIN
- Brian CATLING, Vorrh [The Vorrh] (Fleuve) Translated into French by Nathalie MEGE
- Marina and Sergueï DIATCHENKO, Vita Nostra – Les Métamorphoses 1 (L’Atalante) Translated into French by Denis SAVINE
- Shaun HAMILL, Une cosmologie de monstres [A Cosmology of Monsters] (Albin Michel) Translated into French by Benoît DOMIS
- Jo WALTON, Pierre-de-vie [Lifelode] (Denoël) Translated into French by Florence DOLISI
Catégorie jeunesse / Youth category
- Isabelle BAUTHIAN, Face au dragon (Projets Sillex)
- Anthelme HAUCHECORNE, Moitiés d’Ame – Chroniques des cinq trônes (Gulf Stream)
- Samantha SHANNON, Le Prieuré de l’oranger (De Saxus) Translated into French by Benjamin KUNTZER et Jean-Baptiste BERNET
- Flore VESCO, L’Estrange malaventure de Mirella (L’École des loisirs)
Catégorie illustration / Illustration
- François BARANGER, Les Montagnes hallucinées 1 (Bragelonne)
- Daniel CACOUAULT, Alice au pays des merveilles (Bragelonne)
- Armel GAULME, Les Carnets Lovecraft (Bragelonne)
- Jesper EJSING, Elsewhere (Caurette)
Catégorie nouvelle / Short Story
- Gardner DOZOIS, Épées et magie (Pygmalion)
- Thomas GEHA, Chuchoteurs du dragon et autres murmures (Elenya)
- Ellen KLAGES, Caligo Lane, Passing Strange (ActuSF)
- Pierre PEVEL, Contes et récits du Paris des merveilles (Bragelonne)
Catégorie prix spécial du Jury / Special Jury Award
- Christelle DABOS, La Passe-miroir (Gallimard)
- S.T. JOSHI, Lovecraft je suis providence tomes 1 et 2 (ActuSF)
- Roland LEHOUCQ, Loïc MANGIN, Jean-Sébastien STEYER, Tolkien et les sciences (Belin)
- Alexandre SARGOS, Tolkien à 20 ans (Au diable Vauvert)
- Jean-Sébastien STEYER, Anatomie comparée des espèces imaginaires de Chewbacca à Totoro (Le Cavalier bleu)
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It’s lovely to see both Katherine Arden and Jo Walton in there. And I’ve never even heard of Walton’s book — will have to look that up!
Lifelode was published by NESFA Press rather than Tor, so it didn’t get the wider distribution of her other books. It recently got an ebook edition, so is a bit more available now.
Getting my copy was one of the nicest surprises of my life. Jo had written the first couple of chapters and I had gotten to read them and really enjoyed the premise, but then she sort of stalled out on it. And from time to time she’d mention it on her LiveJournal and say “but nobody wants it” and I’d comment saying “I want it!” (there were one or two others as well) and as you know, eventually she did in fact take it back up and finish it. So I got my copy and I opened it up, and as is my custom I looked at the front matter, and I got to the dedication…which she had not told me about.