The winners of the 2015 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire were announced at Maison de l’Imaginaire du festival Étonnants Voyageurs in Saint-Malo, France on May 24.
Roman francophone / Novel in French
- Aucun homme n’est une île de Christophe Lambert (J’ai lu, Nouveaux millénaires)
Roman étranger / Foreign Novel
- La Grande Route du Nord (2 tomes) de Peter F. Hamilton (Bragelonne)
Nouvelle francophone / Short Fiction in French
- L’Opéra de Shaya (recueil) de Sylvie Lainé (ActuSF)
Nouvelle étrangère /Foreign Short Fiction
- La Fille-flûte et autres fragments de futurs brisés (recueil) de Paolo Bacigalupi (Au diable vauvert)
Roman jeunesse francophone / Novels for youth in French
- La Seconde vie de d’Artagnan de Jean-Luc Marcastel (Matagot)
Roman jeunesse étranger / Foreign novels for youth
Prix Jacques Chambon de la traduction / Jacques Chambon Translation Prize
- Marie Surgers pour Intrabasses de Jeff Noon (La Volte)
Prix Wojtek Siudmak du graphisme / Wojtek Siudmak Graphic Design prize
- Aurélien Police pour l’ensemble de ses couvertures en 2014, en particulier pour L’Éducation de Stony Mayhall de Daryl Gregory (Bélial’) et Notre île sombre de Christopher Priest (Denoël)
Essai / Essay
- Super-héros, une histoire française de Xavier Fournier (Huginn & Muninn)
Prix spécial
- Richard Comballot pour son travail de mémoire de l’Imaginaire, dont son recueil d’entretiens Clameurs (La Volte)
[Via Europa SF.]
The Great North Road was a fun book. The first Miss Peregrine book was interesting from how it was written around these strange old pictures but I didn’t care much for the second one, what worked as an interesting gimmick once didn’t have enough there for two books (in my opinion).
They seem to have not one but two YA (or “youth”) categories, for French and for foreign novels. Just saying, as including such a category in the Hugos has been debated for a long time.
I love that cover for the French edition of Raising Stony Mayhall, which itself was good fun to read. It’s the kind of plot that, if you try to describe it, sounds like an utter trainwreck, but somehow, Daryl Gregory pulls it together.