Prix Tour Eiffel
The Prix Tour Eiffel was a French literary prize awarded by the Société nouvelle d'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel - the operating company of the Eiffel Tower at the time - from 1997 to 2002 for works from the field of science fiction .
The prize was endowed with 100,000 francs and was awarded alternately to a French-speaking and a non-French-speaking author. The winning novels must have appeared in French for the first time in the two previous years. The prize was awarded by a jury made up of representatives from publishers, libraries and readers. In 1998, a 50,000 franc prize was awarded for a short story. The award was initiated by Jacqueline Nebout, then chairwoman of the Société nouvelle d'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel . The price was discontinued after Nebout left the operating company in 2002.
Prize winners were:
- 1997 Pierre Bordage for the two novels of the Wang cycle ( Les Portes d'occident and Les Aigles d'orient )
- 1998 Valerio Evangelisti (Italy) for Nicolas Eymerich, inquisiteur ( Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore , 1994) and Les Chaînes d'Eymerich ( Le catene di Eymerich , 1995); Roland C. Wagner for the story Fragment du livre de la mer
- 1999 Jean-Claude Dunyach and Ayerdhal for Étoiles mourantes
- 2000 Mike Resnick (USA) for La Belle ténébreuse ( The Dark Lady: A Romance of the Far Future , 1987)
- 2001 Jean-Marc Ligny and the painter Mandy for Les Oiseaux de lumière
- 2002 David Gemmell (Great Britain) for Légende ( Legend , 1984)
Web links
- Prix Tour Eiffel on nooSFere (French)
- Prix Tour Eiffel de Science-Fiction (French)