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Shaams Wins 2026 A.C. Bose Grant

21 May 2026 at 21:12

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Shahriar Shaams is the recipient of the 2026 A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature, presented by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) and DesiLit.

The $1,000 grant is given annually to “a South Asian / South Asian diaspora writer developing speculative fiction.” Shaams’s winning work is A Night With the Spy.

For more information, see the SLF website.

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2026 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners

21 May 2026 at 21:09

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire logoThe winners of the 2026 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2025, were announced on May 18, 2026.

French Novel

  • WINNER: Aatea, Anouck Faure (Argyll)
  • Festin de larmes, Morgane Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)
  • Tovaangar, Céline Minard (Rivages)
  • Sintonia, Audrey Pleynet (Le Bélial’)
  • Une vie de saint, Christophie Siébert (Au Diable Vauvert)

Foreign Novel

  • WINNER: Le Livre des passages [Crossings], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas (Le Cherche-Midi)
  • Le Chant des noms [The Naming Song], Jedediah Berry, tr. Jonathan Baillehache (Hachette Heroes)
  • Sur toutes les vagues de la mer [All the Seas of the World], Guy Gavriel Kay, tr. Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante)
  • Les Sœurs de la Muée [The Tiger Flu], Larissa Lai, tr. Sylvie Bérard & Suzanne Grenier (Le Quartanier)
  • Le Cœur des Nagas [The Heart of the Nhaga], Young-Do Lee, tr. Marion Gilbert (Hachette Heroes)
  • La Reine sirène [Siren Queen], Nghi Vo, tr. Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante)

French Short Fiction

  • WINNER: “L’Âge des tempêtes”, Thomas Day (Bifrost 117)
  • “Fiancées du silence”, Sabrina Calvo (Soleil·s: 12 fictions héliotopiques)
  • “Les Noueurs”, Chloé Chevalier (Utopiales 2025)
  • Épicènes, Thierry Crouzet (À la flamme)
  • “La Femme inachevée”, Claude Ecken (Bifrost 120)

Foreign Short Fiction

  • WINNER: La Migration annuelle des nuages [The Annual Migration of Clouds] et Ce qui se dit par la montagne [We Speak Through the Mountain], Premee Mohamed, tr. Marie Surgers (L’Atalante)
  • Un lieu ensoleillé pour personnes sombres [A Sunny Place for Shady People], Mariana Enriquez, tr. Anne Plantagenet (Le Sous-Sol)
  • La Vie secrète des robots [The Secret Life of Bots], Suzanne Palmer, tr. Pierre-Paul Durastanti (Le Bélial’)
  • Hard Mary, Sofia Samatar, tr. Patrick Dechesne (Argyll)

French YA Novel

  • WINNER: Station Symbiose, Noëmie Lemos (Critic)
  • Les Âmes de l’ouest, Elie S. Green (Gulf Stream)
  • L’énigme de Camford, Ariel Holzl (Slalom)
  • L’Institut du nouveau lendemain, Chloé Vollmer-Lo (Nathan)

Foreign YA Novel

  • WINNER: Le Voleur [The Thief] et La reine d’Attolie [The Queen of Attolia], Megan Whalen Turner, tr. Yoko Lacour (Monsieur Toussaint Louverture)
  • Le Miroir sombre [The Dark Mirror], Samantha Shannon, tr. Benjamin Kuntzer (De Saxus)

Jacques Chambon Translation Prize

  • WINNER: Les Sœurs de la Muée [The Tiger Flu], Larissa Lai, tr. Sylvie Bérard & Suzanne Grenier (Le Quartanier)
  • Petit, Grand ou Le parlement des fées [Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament], John Crowley, tr. Patrick Couton (L’Atalante)
  • Le Livre des passages [Passages], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas (Le Cherche-Midi)
  • House of windows [House of Windows], John Langan, tr. Thibaud Eliroff (J’ai Lu)

Wojtek Siudmak Award for Art

  • WINNER: Yvan Belikov for the art of the five-book The Bone Season series, Samantha Shannon (De Saxus)
  • Nicolas Caminade for the cover art of the French editions of several books by J.R.R. Tolkien (Pocket)
  • Morgane Caussarieu for the cover and interior art of Festin de larmes, Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)
  • Thibault Daumain for the cover and interior art of Petit, Grand ou Le parlement des fées [Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament], John Crowley, tr. Patrick Couton (L’Atalante)
  • Anouck Faure for the cover art of Hard Mary, Sofia Samatar, tr. Patrick Dechesne (Argyll)

Non-Fiction

  • WINNER: Petites histoires de la science-fiction française, Alain Grousset (ActuSF)
  • L’Encyclopédie H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi & David E. Schultz (Bragelonne)

Prix Spécial

  • WINNER: Demain commence hier, George W. Barlow (Flatland)
  • Derrière le grillage 1, Guillaume Chamanadjian, Sébastien Juillard & luvan (Scylla)

Winners will be awarded at a ceremony in Montpellier, to be held May 23. For more information, see the official webpage.

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New Books Video: Releases of the Week! May 19, 2026

21 May 2026 at 21:00

Locus returns with an exciting roundup of the newest Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult books arriving the week of May 19th, 2026! This week’s selection is packed with standout releases ready to claim a spot on your ever growing reading list, and we’ve gathered some of the most anticipated titles to make choosing your next read a little easier. We post brand-new videos every week, so don’t forget to subscribe and keep up with the latest in speculative fiction—your support truly means a lot. Dive into this week’s featured books, and we’ll see you soon with another batch of unforgettable new releases!

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