Mélanie Fazi (born 29 November 1976) is a French novelist and translator specialising in fantasy fiction.[1] As well as writing award-winning fiction of her own she has translated works by Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Moon, Poppy Z. Brite and Graham Joyce into French for Éditions Bragelonne, a French publisher. In 2020, Fazi announced on her blog that she had been diagnosed with autism.[2]

Mélanie Fazi
Mélanie Fazi at the Salon du livre de Paris in March 2008
Mélanie Fazi at the Salon du livre de Paris in March 2008
BornMélanie Fazi
(1976-11-29) 29 November 1976 (age 47)
Dunkirk, France
OccupationNovelist and translator
NationalityFrench
GenreFiction
SubjectFantasy
Notable works
  • Trois pépins du fruit des morts
  • Serpentine
  • Notre-Dame aux Écailles
  • Arlis des Forains
Notable awardsPrix Merlin in 2002 and 2004
Prix Masterton in 2005 and 2009
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 2005 and 2007
Website
www.melaniefazi.net

Notable awards edit

  • 2002: Prix Merlin ((in French) "Merlin Prize") for Matilda (original novel)
  • 2004: Prix Merlin for Trois Pépins du fruit des morts ((in French) "Three Seeds of the Fruit of the Dead") (original novel)
  • 2005: Prix Masterton ((in French) "Masterton Prize") for Arlis des forains ((in French) "Arlis fairground") (original novel)[3]
  • 2005: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire ((in French) "Grand Prize of the Imagination") for Serpentine (original novel)[4]
  • 2007: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Lignes de vie ((in French) "Lifelines") (translation)[5]
  • 2009: Prix Masterton for Notre-Dame-aux-Ecailles ((in French) "Our Lady of Scales") (original novel)[6]
  • 2010: Prix Masterton for Miroir de porcelaine ((in French) "Porcelain Mirror") (original novel)[7]

References edit

  1. ^ Sfsignal.com Archived 2009-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, interview with Mélanie Fazi, 5 November 2009, retrieved 28 October 2010
  2. ^ Fazi, Mélanie (3 February 2020). "Sur le spectre". Mélanie Fazi (in French). Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Site officiel du prix Masterton". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  4. ^ "GPI - Palmarès 2005". Archived from the original on 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  5. ^ "GPI - Palmarès 2007". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  6. ^ "Site officiel du prix Masterton". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  7. ^ "Site officiel du prix Masterton". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-01-16.

This material was abridged and translated from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia on 28 October 2010.