Yves Meynard (born 13 June 1964) is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer. He writes in both English and French.
Biography
Meynard made his debut as an author in 1986 at the Boréal congress in
Longueuil
Longueuil () is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie, Montérégie administrative region and the central city of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil. It sits on the South Shore (Montreal), south shore o ...
. Along with Philippe Gauthier and
Claude J. Pelletier, he launched the fanzine Samizdat.
Meynard became literary director for the magazine
Solaris
Solaris is the Latin word for sun.
It may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Literature, television and film
* ''Solaris'' (novel), a 1961 science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem
** ''Solaris'' (1968 film), directed by Boris Nirenburg
** ''Sol ...
from 1994-2002. He has received a number of literary awards, including four
Aurora Awards
The Aurora Awards () are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year."Literary glow of Auroras lures galaxy of sci/fi stars". ...
, three
Boréal Prizes, and the Quebec Grand Prize for Science Fiction and Fantasy in 1994 (now the Jacques-Brossard Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy).
In 1998, Meynard published ''The Book of Knights'' in English with
Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles.
History
Tor was founded by Tom Doherty, ...
, released in French as ''Le Livre des chevaliers'' under the imprint in 1999. He also writes works for young adults, and published ''Le Mage des fourmis'' (''The Ant Mage'') with Mediaspaul in 1995. He received the Aurora Award for best novel (''La Rose du désert'') in 1997.
He has collaborated with the Quebec author
Élisabeth Vonarburg
Élisabeth Vonarburg (born 5 August 1947) is a science fiction writer. She was born in Paris (France) and has lived in Chicoutimi (now Saguenay), Quebec, Canada since 1973.
From 1979 to 1990 she was the literary director of the French-Canadian ...
, and regularly collaborates with
Jean-Louis Trudel under the
collective name Laurent McAllister.
Works published in English
Novels
*''The Book of Knights'' (1998)
*''Chrysanthe'' (2012)
Collection
*''Angels & Exiles'' (2015)
Anthology
*''Tesseracts 5'' with Robert Runté (1996)
References
External links
Yves Meynard home page*
1964 births
Canadian science fiction writers
Canadian writers in French
Living people
Writers from Quebec City
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