Jean-Claude Dunyach


Jean-Claude Dunyach is a French science fiction writer.
WWW dunyach.fr

Overview

Dunyach has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and supercomputing from Paul Sabatier University. He works for Airbus in Toulouse in southwestern France.
Dunyach has been writing science fiction since the beginning of the 1980s and has already published nine novels and ten collections of short stories, garnering the French Science-Fiction award in 1983 and the Prix Rosny-Aîné Awards in 1992, as well as the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Prix Ozone in 1997.
His short story Déchiffrer la Trame won both the Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Rosny Award in 1998, and was voted Best Story of the Year by the readers of the magazine Interzone.
His novel, Etoiles Mourantes, written in collaboration with the French author Ayerdhal, won the prestigious Eiffel Tower Award in 1999 as well as the Prix Ozone.
Dunyach's works have been translated into English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Hungarian, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Dunyach also writes lyrics for several French singers, which served as an inspiration for one of his novels about a rock and roll singer touring in Antarctica with a zombie philharmonic orchestra...

In English

In Medicis Gardens, in Full Spectrum 4, Bantam Spectra, New York, 1993The Dead Eye of the Camera, in Full Spectrum 5, Bantam Spectra, New York, 1995Unravelling the Thread, in Interzone 133, Brighton, UK, July 1998; reprinted in Year's Best SF 4, HarperPrism, New York, 1999Come Into My Parlor, in Altair 1, Blackwood, SA, Australia, 1998Footprints in the Snow, in Interzone 150, Brighton, UK, December 1999Station of the Lamb, in Altair 6, Blackwood, SA, Australia, 2000All the Roads to Heaven, in Interzone 156, Brighton, UK, June 2000Orchids in the Night, in Interzone 160, Brighton, UK, October 2000Watch Me When I Sleep, appeared in Interzone 168, Brighton, UK, June 2001; reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Tor Books, New York, 2002Enter the Worms, in On Spec, Volume 14, Number 2, Edmonton, Canada, Summer 2002What the Dead Know, in On Spec, Volume 16, Number 1, Edmonton, Canada, Spring 2004The Night Orchid: Conan Doyle in Toulouse, Black Coat Press, 2004 Separations, in The SFWA European Hall of Fame, Edited by James and Kathryn Morrow, Tor 2007The Thieves of Silence Black Coat Press, 2009 God, Seen From the Inside, in Galaxy's edge issue 06, USA, January 2014Love your ennemy, in Galaxy's edge issue 20, USA, May 2016Paranamanco, in The Big Book of Science Fiction, USA, July 2016Landscape with intruders, in Blind Spot issue 01, USA, August 2016With a wink of the heron's eye, in Galaxy's Edge issue 29, USA, November 2017Paranamanco Black Coat Press, 2023

Literary prizes

  • 1984 : Grand Prix de la science-fiction française, category short stories, for Les Nageurs de sable ;
  • 1992 : Prix Rosny aîné, category novels, for Étoiles mortes ;
  • 1992 : Prix Rosny aîné, category short stories, for De l'autre côté de l'eau ;
  • 1997 : Prix Ozone, category horror short stories, for Ce que savent les morts ;
  • 1998 : Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, category short stories in French, for Déchiffrer la trame ;
  • 1998 : Prix Rosny aîné, category short stories, or Déchiffrer la trame ;
  • 1999 : Prix Tour Eiffel de science-fiction, category novels, for Étoiles mourantes, written in collaboration with Ayerdhal ;
  • 2000 : Prix Ozone, category novels in French for Étoiles mourantes, written in collaboration with Ayerdhal ;
  • 2008 : Prix Rosny aîné, category short stories, for Repli sur soie ;
  • 2017 : Prix Imaginales, category short stories, for Le clin d'oeil du héron ;