Le Cycle des contrées explained

Le Cycle des contrées
Author:	Jacques Abeille
Cover Artist:	François Schuiten (Le Tripode)
Country:	France
Language:	French
Genre:	novel
Publisher:	Flammarion Ginkgo éditeur Deleatur Le Tripode
Pub Date:	1982–2020
Number Of Books:	10 novels, short stories^[1]

(The Cycle of Countries) is a novel series by Jacques Abeille, published between the early 1980s and 2020. Apart from novels, it also includes a number of short stories.^[2] The series is set in imaginary countries. At the center of these imaginary territories, the Empire of Terrèbre and its eponymous capital are the setting for the second and, in part, the third novel on the series. In 2020, the series was republished in five volumes by Le Tripode.

Novels

• Les Jardins statuaires (Flammarion, 1982; reissued by Joëlle Losfeld, 2004; reissued by Attila, 2010; reissued by Le Tripode, 2016)
• Le Veilleur du jour (Flammarion, 1986; reissued by Ginkgo éditeur/Deleatur, 2007; reissued by Le Tripode, 2015)
• La Clef des ombres (Zulma, 1991; reissued by Le Tripode, 2020)
• Les Voyages du fils (Ginkgo éditeur/Deleatur, 2008; reissued by Le Tripode, 2016).
• Les Chroniques scandaleuses de Terrèbre (under the pseudonym Léo Barthe, Ginkgo éditeur/Deleatur, 2008)
• Les Mers perdues (in collaboration with François Schuiten, Attila, 2010), illustrated
• Les Barbares (Attila, 2011)
• La Barbarie (Attila, 2011)
• La Vie de l'explorateur perdu (2020)

Short stories

• Les Carnets de l'explorateur perdu (Ombres, 1993)
• Louvanne (Deleatur, 1999)
• L'Écriture du désert (Deleatur, 2003)
• La grande danse de la réconciliation (drawings by Gérard Puel, Le Tripode, 2016), short story, illustrated

Awards

Le Cycle des contrées won a special mention in the 2010 Wepler Prize.^[3] In 2021, it won the Grand prix de l'Imaginaire (Special Prize).^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Philippe-Jean Catinchi. La mort de Jacques Abeille, poète et romancier. 4 February 2022. Le Monde.
2. Web site: Sébastien Omont. Un cycle romanesque majeur. 28 November 2020. En attendant Nadeau.
3. Web site: Le prix Wepler 2010 a été attribué à Linda Lê. 22 November 2010. livreshebdo.fr. https://web.archive.org/web/20101126163530/http://www.livreshebdo.fr/prix/actualites/le-prix-wepler-2010-a-ete-attribue-a-linda-le/5564.aspx. 26 November 2010. dead.
4. Web site: Les lauréats du Grand prix de l'imaginaire 2021. 8 May 2021. livreshebdo.fr.