Grand prix de l'Imaginaire

The grand prix de l'Imaginaire (GPI, "grand prize of the Imaginary"), until 1992 the grand prix de la science-fiction française, is a French literary award for speculative fiction, established in 1972 by the writer Jean-Pierre Fontana as part of the science fiction convention of Clermont-Ferrand.

Grand prix de l'Imaginaire
CountryFrance
First awarded1974
Websitehttps://gpi.noosfere.org Edit this on Wikidata

Initially purely a science fiction award, the award's scope was widened to encompass all fields of speculative fiction in 1992. From 2000 to 2010 it was awarded as part of the Utopiales festival in Nantes. It is now part of the Étonnants Voyageurs festival of Saint-Malo.

Winners

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Apart from the awards listed here, there are also categories for best new novel, foreign youth novel, translations, comic, manga, and others.[1]

French novel

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French short fiction

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Foreign-language novel

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Foreign-language short fiction

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Youth Novel

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French Youth Novel

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Special Prize

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  • 1976 : Urm le fou by Philippe Druillet
  • 1977 : Yves Dermèze for all of his work
  • 1979 : the fantastic hyperrealistic universe of Wojciech Siudmak
  • 1980 : Major fatal by Mœbius
  • 1980 : Civilisations et Divagations by Louis-Vincent Thomas
  • 1981 : Fantascienza (no. 2-3) by Claude Eckerman, Alain Grousset and Dominique Martel
  • 1982 : Essai psychanalytique sur la création littéraire - Processus et fonction de l'écriture chez un auteur de Science-fiction : Philip K. Dick by Marcel Thaon
  • 1983 : Le Bunker de la dernière rafale by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • 1984 : Le Rayon SF by Henri Delmas and Alain Julian
  • 1985 : La Nouvelle Science-fiction américaine by Gérard Cordesse
  • 1987 : Le Détroit de Behring by Emmanuel Carrère
  • 1988 : Le Combat d'Odiri by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
  • 1989 : Les Voyages ordinaires d'un amateur de tableaux by Dominique Douay
  • 1990 : Philippe Curval for his work as an anthologist and talent scout
  • 1991 : Jean-Pierre Nicollet for all of his work
  • 1992 : La Grande Anthologie de la science-fiction française by Ellen Herzfeld, Gérard Klein and Dominique Martel
  • 1993 : L'Atalante publishing house for the quality and originality of their production
  • 1994 : Regards sur Philip K. Dick, le Kaledickoscope by Hélène Collon
  • 1995 : Les Nourritures extraterrestres by Dona Sussan
  • 1996 : CyberDreams magazine
  • 1997 : Mad Movies magazine
  • 1998 : Ozone by Henri Lœvenbruck
  • 1999 : Le Visage vert by Xavier Legrand Ferronnière
  • 2000 : Stéphanie Nicot, Galaxies
  • 2001 : Pierre Pelot, Sous le vent du monde
  • 2002 : Stephen King, Ténèbres magazine, special issue
  • 2003 : Robert Holdstock, La Forêt des mythagos
  • 2004 : Terra Incognita, collection
  • 2005 : the website of the nooSFere association
  • 2006 : Le Troisième Œil. La Photographie et l'Occulte
  • 2007 : the periodical anthology Fiction (Les Moutons électriques)
  • 2008 : the TV film Des Fleurs pour Algernon by David Delrieux
  • 2009 : Le Bélial' editions for the unpublished works by Poul Anderson and Le Grand livre de Mars by Leigh Brackett
  • 2010 : Le Lac aux Vélies by Nosfell and Ludovic Debeurme
  • 2010 : (Étonnants Voyageurs): Jean-Marc Lofficier and Brian Stableford for their work promoting and translating French-speaking SF at Black Coat Press
  • 2011 : Poètes de l'Imaginaire (anthology) by Sylvain Fontaine
  • 2012 : José Corti publishing house, for more than 70 years serving the Imagination
  • 2013 : Ad Astra editions, for the publication of the complete Cycle de Lanmeur (2 volumes) by Christian Léourier and the Délirium label, for the publication of the anthologies Creepy and Eerie
  • 2014 : the synchronous edition of L'Intégrale Stefan Wul by Bragelonne and the Univers of Stefan Wul by Ankama, adaptations of the novels into comics by D. * Cassegrain, M. Hawthorne, D. Lapiere, J.-D. Morvan, M. Reynes, O. Vatine, Yann...
  • 2015 : Richard Comballot for his work on the memory of the imagination, including his collection of interviews Clameurs
  • 2016 : Natacha Vas-Deyres and Richard Comballot for the Chronolytic Notebooks of Michel Jeury
  • 2017 : Hélène Collon and Editions Nouveaux Millénaires for the publication of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
  • 2018 : Ellen Herzfeld and Dominique Martel for their work in the service of science fiction for over thirty years, including the Quarante-Deux website and the collections from the Quarante-Deux collection published by Éditions du Bélial'
  • 2019 : Guy Costes and Joseph Altairac for their journey as scholars and collectors for more than 40 years, materialized by their monumental work Rétrofictions
  • 2020 : the BnF for the Tolkien, Voyage en Terre du Milieu exhibition
  • 2021 : Jacques Abeille, Le Cycle des contrées
  • 2022 : Alain Sprauel for his meticulous and tireless work as bibliographer of the Imagination, and in particular The 2021 bibliography of Stephen King
  • 2023 : Les Galaxiales - L'Intégrale by Michel Demuth, completed by nine authors brought together by Richard Comballot from the initial plan and synopses


References

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  1. ^ "Palmarès par catégories – Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire" (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-09.