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For her two novels and three story collections, Mélanie Fazi (b. 1976) has won the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, the Prix Masterton, and the Prix Merlin each several times. Active in the contemporary French speculative-fiction community, she lives in Paris and is a member of the Deep Ones, a collective of musicians and writers who give live readings with musical accompaniment.