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Biography
Jean-Claude Dunyach (born 1957) is a French science fiction writer.
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 seven novels and eight 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 (Unravelling the Thread) 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 latest novel, Etoiles Mourantes (Dying Stars), 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....
Literary prizes
- 1984 : Grand Prix de la science-fiction française, category short stories, for Les Nageurs de sable (Sandswimmers);
- 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 (What the dead know) ;
- 1998 : Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, category short stories in French, for Déchiffrer la trame (Unravelling the thread) ;
- 1998 : Prix Rosny aîné, category short stories, or Déchiffrer la trame (Unravelling the thread) ;
- 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 ;