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Jean-Claude Dunyach (born 1957) is a French science fiction writer.
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- Comment devient on un heros jean claude dunyach tedxtoulouse
- Jean claude dunyach l instinct du troll
- Overview
- Literary prizes
- References
Jean claude dunyach l instinct du troll
Overview
Dunyach has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and supercomputing from Paul Sabatier University. He works for Airbus in Toulouse in southwestern France.
Dunyach has been writing science fiction since the beginning of the 1980s and has already published seven novels and eight collections of short stories, garnering the French Science-Fiction award in 1983 and the Prix Rosny-Aîné Awards in 1992, as well as the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Prix Ozone in 1997.
His short story Déchiffrer la Trame (Unravelling the Thread) won both the Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Rosny Award in 1998, and was voted Best Story of the Year by the readers of the magazine Interzone.
His latest novel, Etoiles Mourantes (Dying Stars), written in collaboration with the French author Ayerdhal, won the prestigious Eiffel Tower Award in 1999 as well as the Prix Ozone.
Dunyach’s works have been translated into English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Hungarian, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Dunyach also writes lyrics for several French singers, which served as an inspiration for one of his novels about a rock and roll singer touring in Antarctica with a zombie philharmonic orchestra....