Sylvain Neuvel

Sylvain Neuvel is a Canadian science fiction writer, whose debut novel Sleeping Giants was published in 2016. The novel, which was a longlisted contender for the 2017 edition of Canada Reads, has been optioned by Sony Pictures for development into a film and was sold for translation into twenty languages.

Born in Quebec City and raised in the suburb of L'Ancienne-Lorette, Neuvel was educated at the Université de Montréal and the University of Chicago, and runs his own professional translation agency. The idea for Sleeping Giants first came to him when his son asked him to build a toy robot, for which he wanted an extended back story about where the robot came from and what it did. He first submitted the novel to literary agents in 2014 and received 50 rejections, but the novel began accumulating favourable buzz after Kirkus Reviews published a rave review of the galley copy it had received.

The novel was published by Del Rey Books in 2016. It was a finalist for the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction, the 2017 Compton Crook Award and for the Concordia University First Book Prize at the 2016 Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.