Best Translated Novel

• WINNER: Eversion, Alastair Reynolds, tr. Naoya Nakahara (Tokyo Sogensha)
• WINNER: Babel, R.F. Kuang, tr. Yoshimichi Furusawa (Tokyo Sogensha)

• The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks, tr. Yasuko Kawano (Hayakawa Bunko SF)
• The Book of Elsewhere, China Miéville & Keanu Reeves, tr. Masayuki Uchida & Rei Yasuno (Kawade Shobo Shinsha)
• The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler, tr. Hiroshi Kaneko (Tokyo Sogensha)
• Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh, tr. Hiroshi Kaneko (Hayakawa)
• The Paradox Hotel, Rob Hart, tr. Ken Mogi (Tokyo Sogensha)
• Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow, tr. Masayuki Uchida (Takeshobo)

Best Translated Short Story

• WINNER: “After Zero”, Greg Egan, tr. Makoto Yamagishi (Hayakawa SF 2/25)

• “Hémisphères”, Tristan Garcia, tr. Kei Takahashi (7)
• “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus”, Rachel K. Jones, tr. Chiori Sada (The Silverfish Notebook 8/25)
• “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker, tr. Izumi Ichida (A Place That Once Existed Somewhere)
• “Security Check”, Han Song, tr. Tachihara Touya (Hayakawa SF 10/25)
• “Blowout”, Wole Talabi, tr. Masato Naruniwa (Hayakawa SF 12/25)

There are also winners in the Japanese Novel, Japanese Short Story, Media, Comic, Artist, Non-Fiction, and “Free” (other) categories. The awards will be presented at the 64th Japan SF Convention in Oita, Japan, to be held July 11-12, 2026.

For more information, including a complete list of winners and other nominees, see the SFFAN’s website.

French Novel

• WINNER: Festin de larmes, Morgane Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)

• La Nuit ravagée, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (Gallimard)
• Aatea, Anouck Faure (Argyll)
• Le Solstice des ombres, Sœurs de haine, tome 1, Benjamin Lupu (Mnémos)
• La Fille du feu, Aurélie Wellenstein (Outre Fleuve)

Foreign Novel Translated

• WINNER: La Sorcière à la jambe d’os [Mladenka kostonoga], Želimir Periš, tr. Chloé Billon (Du Sonneur)

• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar, tr. Patrick Marcel (Nouveaux Millénaires)
• Sur toutes les vagues de la mer [All the Seas of the World], Guy Gavriel Kay, tr. Mikael Cabon (Atalante)
• L’Oiseau qui boit des larmes [The Bird That Drinks Tears], Young-Do Lee (Le Rayon Imaginaire)
• Le Livre des passages [The Book of Passages], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas, (Le Cherche-midi)

Young Adult

• WINNER: Le Cercle de ronces, Camille Anssel (Gallimard jeunesse)

• L’Alchimie des fantômes, Estelle Castadere (Rageot)
• Artemisia Shepard, Descendante de la Pythie, Christelle Da Cruz (Scrineo)
• La Cité d’Archeflèche [Arkspire], Jamie Littler, tr. Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon (Nathan)
• Diamant et émeraude and Jais et grenat, Stéphanie Benson & Nelly Labere (Syros)

Illustration

• WINNER: Dominik Mayer for Incendium (Caurette)

• Clara Debray for L’Ourse qui danse (Les Étages)
• Beatriz Martin-Vidat for Petit Chaperon (Grasset)

Comic Book

• WINNER: Helen de Wyndhorn, Tom King, illustrated by Evely Bilquis (Glénat)

• Le Château des animaux, Xavier Dorison, illustrated by Félix Delep (Casterman)
• Islander, Caryl Férey, illustrated by Corentin Rouge (Glénat)
• Downlands, Norm Konyu (Glénat)
• Drome, Jesse Lonergan (404)

Picture Book

• WINNER: Dodorama, Marion Arbona (Sarbacane)

• Le Bus jaune, Loren Long, tr. Chun-Liang Yeh (HongFei)
• Le Dictionnaire à l’envers [The Dictionary Story], Sam Winston, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, tr. Claire Billaud (Kaléidoscope)
• J’ai un ami, Manon Fargetton, illustrated by Lili Wood (Milan)
• Tom poulpe, Gaëtan Dorémus (La Partie)

Additional awards were given, such as the Prix des collégiens, the Prix des écoliers, and others. For more information, visit the Prix Imaginales website.