Yves Meynard

Yves Meynard was born in 1964 in Québec City but has lived most of his life in Longueuil. He has been active in Québec SF circles since 1986. He served as literary editor for the magazine Solaris from 1994 to 2001. Since 1986, he has published over forty short stories in French and
English, winning many awards for his short fiction, including several Boréal and Aurora awards, along with the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois, Québec's highest award in the field, in 1994. His work has appeared in, among others, Solaris, imagine..., Yellow Submarine, tomorrow, Edge Detector, Prairie Fire and various anthologies, such as Northern Stars, Island Dreams and several
Tesseracts. His story “Tobacco Words'’ (tomorrow 19) was reprinted in Year's Best SF 2.

He started publishing books in 1995, and has fourteen under his belt to date: La Rose du désert, a short-story collection (winner of the 1995 Boréal Award for best book); Chanson pour une sirène, a novella in collaboration with Élisabeth Vonarburg; Le Mage des fourmis, a YA fantasy novel; a YA fantasy diptych, Le vaisseau des tempêtes and Le Prince des Glaces; the first three volumes of a YA fantasy series: Le fils du Margrave, L'Héritier de Lorann, and L'enfant de la Terre; the beginning of another YA fantasy series, Le messager des orages, Sur le chemin des tornades and Le Maître des bourrasques, written in collaboration with Jean-Louis Trudel; and the novella Un Oeuf d'acier. Early in 1998 Tor Books published his first novel in English, a fantasy titled The Book of Knights. It came out in Fall 1999 in French, under the title Le Livre des chevaliers. The Book of Knights was a finalist for the 2000 Mythopoeic Award for best novel.