Joël Champetier
Encyclopedia
Joël Champetier is a French-Canadian science fiction
and fantasy
author
.
in 1981. After publishing many stories in various magazines and collections, some of which would be translated to English, he published his first youth novel, La mer au fond du monde, in 1990.
La taupe et le dragon, his first adult science-fiction novel, was published in 1991. This would be translated into English and published in the United States
in 1999 by Tor Books
. He has also been published in France
, such as a collection of stories through Orion, and his fantasy novel Les sources de la magie was published by Bragelonne in 2005.
Joël Champetier also grew in status among the community of Quebec science-fiction and fantasy writers. In 1983, he helped organise the Boréal Congress, an annual Quebec science-fiction conference. He would serve on the conference's board of directors in 1984, and again from 1989 to 1999, becoming Vice-President from 1994 to 1999.
In 1987, he became a literary critic in the publication L'année de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois (Quebec Science Fiction and Fantasy Annual).
At Solaris magazine, he became a member of the editorial committee, becoming literary director from 1990 to 1994, co-ordinator from 1992 to 1996 during which the magazine won three Aurora Award
s. In 1995, he worked with Yves Meynard
on the anthology Escales sur Solaris for the magazine's anniversary.
In 1996, he was honoured at the Salon du livre de l'Abitibi-Témiscaminque, for which he had been previously in charge of programming in 1991.
His works, primarily represented by the novels La mémoire du lac, La peau blanche and L'aile du papillon, were often compared to the style of Stephen King
by various editors.
His 1997 novel La peau blanche was adapted into a 2004 film by Daniel Roby
which was released in English as White Skin
.
He is presently based in Saint-Séverin de Proulxville, Quebec and is the current managing editor of Solaris.
1987: Retour sur Colonie (Solaris 75, written with Élisabeth Vonarburg
)
1987: Les vents du temps (Samizdat 8)
1988: Survie sur Mars in L'Année de la science-fiction et du fantastique Québécois 1987 (Le Passeur)
1988: Salut Gilles! (Solaris 79)
1989: En petites coupures (Færie 5)
1989: Le jour-de-trop (Solaris 87)
1989: Karyotype 47, XX, +21 in Sous des soleils étrangers (Les Publications Ianus)
1990: Ce que Hercule est allé faire chez Augias, et pourquoi il n'y est pas resté in L'Année de la science-fiction et du fantastique Québécois 1989 (Le Passeur)
1990: Cœur de fer (Solaris 93)
1997: reprinted in Cœur de fer (Orion)
1996: English version in Tesseract Q (Tesseracts Books)
1990: À fleur de peau (Fusion/Nouvelle Génération 6)
1992: Anciennes cicatrices (imagine... 59)
1992: Luckenbach, les mathématiques, et autres dangers de Montréal (Solaris 100)
1992: Petite peste in Par chemins inventés (Québec/Amérique, Clip 10)
1993: Dieu, 1, 0 in L'Année de la science-fiction et du fantastique Québécois 1990 (Le Passeur)
1994: Esclaves du sable (in Décollages, imagine...)
1994: Visite au comptoir dénébolien in Sourires (L'A Venir)
1996: Icabod Icabod Crane in La Maison douleur (Vents d'Ouest, Ado 2)
1997: Badelaire l'assassin in Concerto pour six voix (Médiaspaul, Jeunesse-pop 121)
1998: À la main (Solaris 125)
1998: Les Amis de la Forêt» (extrait), in Roberval fantastique (Ashem fictions)
1998: Créatures de poussière (Horrifique 25)
2001: Huit Harmoniques de Lumière (Solaris 136)
He was also a finalist in 1984 and 1985 in a screenplay contest by Radio-Québec
(today known as Télé-Québec
), at Prix Québec/Wallonie-Bruxelles in 1992, and also at Prix Brive/Montréal in 1993 (for Le jour-de-trop).
Science fiction
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and fantasy
Fantasy
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author
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.
Biography
Joël Champetier became a full-time writer after working in electrochemistry. His first published work, Le chemin des fleurs, appeared in Quebec science-fiction and fantasy magazine SolarisSolaris (magazine)
Solaris is a Canadian francophone science-fiction and fantasy magazine.Founded in 1974 in Longueuil by Norbert Spehner, Solaris is the oldest French language science-fiction and fantasy magazine in the world.- Description of the content :...
in 1981. After publishing many stories in various magazines and collections, some of which would be translated to English, he published his first youth novel, La mer au fond du monde, in 1990.
La taupe et le dragon, his first adult science-fiction novel, was published in 1991. This would be translated into English and published in the United States
United States
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in 1999 by Tor Books
Tor Books
Tor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. The company was founded...
. He has also been published in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, such as a collection of stories through Orion, and his fantasy novel Les sources de la magie was published by Bragelonne in 2005.
Joël Champetier also grew in status among the community of Quebec science-fiction and fantasy writers. In 1983, he helped organise the Boréal Congress, an annual Quebec science-fiction conference. He would serve on the conference's board of directors in 1984, and again from 1989 to 1999, becoming Vice-President from 1994 to 1999.
In 1987, he became a literary critic in the publication L'année de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois (Quebec Science Fiction and Fantasy Annual).
At Solaris magazine, he became a member of the editorial committee, becoming literary director from 1990 to 1994, co-ordinator from 1992 to 1996 during which the magazine won three Aurora Award
Aurora Award
The Prix Aurora Awards are given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artworks, fan activities from that year, and are awarded in both English and French...
s. In 1995, he worked with Yves Meynard
Yves Meynard
Yves Meynard is a science fiction and fantasy author. He began writing fiction in 1986. He has won the Aurora Award for best book in French once and for best short story in French five times. He has also written in English.-External links:*...
on the anthology Escales sur Solaris for the magazine's anniversary.
In 1996, he was honoured at the Salon du livre de l'Abitibi-Témiscaminque, for which he had been previously in charge of programming in 1991.
His works, primarily represented by the novels La mémoire du lac, La peau blanche and L'aile du papillon, were often compared to the style of Stephen King
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
by various editors.
His 1997 novel La peau blanche was adapted into a 2004 film by Daniel Roby
Daniel Roby
Daniel Roby is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. An alumnus of the film programs at Concordia University and the University of Southern California, he worked as a camera operator and cinematographer on numerous film and television projects before releasing his own directorial debut, La...
which was released in English as White Skin
White Skin
White Skin is a 2004 Canadian horror film directed by Daniel Roby. It was released on video in the United States under the title Cannibal. This film won the CityTV award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. In this movie, two men discover that...
.
He is presently based in Saint-Séverin de Proulxville, Quebec and is the current managing editor of Solaris.
Youth novels
- 1990: La Mer au fond du monde (Paulines, Jeunesse-pop 71) ISBN 2890394816
- 1991: La Requête de Barrad (Paulines, Jeunesse-pop 73) ISBN 2890395014
- 1991: La Prisonnière de Barrad (Paulines, Jeunesse-pop 76) ISBN 2890395170
- 1993: Le Jour-de-trop (Paulines, Jeunesse-pop 85) ISBN 2890395863
- 1993: Le Voyage de la sylvanelle (Paulines, Jeunesse-pop 88) ISBN 2894202024
- 1994: Le Secret des sylvaneaux (Paulines, Jeunesse-pop 93) ISBN 2894202237
- 1995: Le Prince Japier (Paulines, Jeunesse-pop 98) ISBN 2894202830
Adult novels
- 1991: La Taupe et le Dragon (Québec/Amérique, Littérature d'Amérique) ISBN 289037548X
- 1999: reissue (Alire, Romans 025) ISBN 2922145263
- 1999: English version: The Dragon's Eye (Tor) ISBN 0312868820
- 1994: La Mémoire du lac (Québec/Amérique, Sextant 3)
- 2001: reissue (Alire, Romans 043) ISBN 2922145492
- 1995: Escales sur Solaris (anthology, with Yves Meynard, Vents d'Ouest)
- 1997: La Peau blanche (Alire, Romans 006) ISBN 2922145050
- 2002: reissued in large size (Alire, GF 2)
- 1999: L'Aile du papillon (Alire, Romans 028) ISBN 2922145247
- 2002: Les Sources de la magie (Alire, Romans 054)
- 2005: reissue (Bragelonne) (FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
)
- 2005: reissue (Bragelonne) (France
- 2006 (scheduled): Le Voleur des steppes (Alire)
- 2006? (scheduled): L'Éblouissement (Alire)
Articles
- 1981: Le chemin des fleurs (Solaris 41)
- 1983: Reparution dans Aurores Boréales 1 (Le Préambule)
- 1982: Le nettoyage de la Compté (Pour ta belle gueule d'ahuri 5)
- 1988: Reparution dans Épitaphe 4
- 1983: Bébé, Stan' et moi (Solaris 50)
- 1984: Elle a soif (imagine... 21)
- 1985: Poisson-soluble (Solaris 59)
- 1985: Reparution dans
- 1987: Version anglaise : in Tesseracts 2 (Press Porcépic)
- 1994: Reparution dans Northern Stars (Tor)
Élisabeth Vonarburg
Élisabeth Vonarburg is a science fiction writer. She was born in Paris and has lived in Chicoutimi , Quebec, Canada since 1973....
)
- 1990: Version anglaise : in
- 1993: reprinted in Yellow Submarine 104
- 1997: reprinted in
- 1997: Reparution dans
- 1993: reprinted in Yellow Submarine 102
- 1997: reprinted in
- 1995: reprinted in
- 1998: reprinted in
- 1997: reprinted in
- 1997: reprinted in
Awards and recognition
- 1982: Prix Boréal, Le chemin des fleurs
- 1989: Prix Casper, Survie sur Mars
- 1989: Prix Casper, Survie sur Mars
- 1991: Prix Boréal, novel, La Mer au fond du monde
- 1991: Prix Boréal, story, Cœur de fer
- 1992: Prix Boréal La Taupe et le Dragon
- 1995: Aurora AwardAurora AwardThe Prix Aurora Awards are given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artworks, fan activities from that year, and are awarded in both English and French...
, La Mémoire du Lac - 1995: Grand Prix de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois (Grand Prize for Quebec Science Fiction and Fantasy), for La mémoire du lac, Le secret des sylvaneaux, Visite au comptoir dénébolien and Esclave du sable
He was also a finalist in 1984 and 1985 in a screenplay contest by Radio-Québec
(today known as Télé-Québec
Télé-Québec
Télé-Québec is a French language public educational television network in the Canadian province of Quebec. Known legally as Société de télédiffusion du Québec , it is a provincial crown corporation owned by the Government of Quebec...
), at Prix Québec/Wallonie-Bruxelles in 1992, and also at Prix Brive/Montréal in 1993 (for Le jour-de-trop).
See also
- SolarisSolaris (magazine)Solaris is a Canadian francophone science-fiction and fantasy magazine.Founded in 1974 in Longueuil by Norbert Spehner, Solaris is the oldest French language science-fiction and fantasy magazine in the world.- Description of the content :...
- Aurora AwardAurora AwardThe Prix Aurora Awards are given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artworks, fan activities from that year, and are awarded in both English and French...
Prix Boréal Prix Casper
External links
alire.com: Joël Champetier profile- SciFi.com: The Dragon's Eye (review of English version of La Taupe et le Dragon)