Posté : sam. 19 avr. 2003 12:36
Jacques Chambon est décédé le 16 Avril 2003 à l'âge de 60 ans :(Ce nom ne vous dit peut-être rien, mais c'est un grand nom de l'édition française SF (chez Denoël, particulièrement) qui nous quitte.Agrégé de lettres classiques, il a été critique, traducteur, anthologiste et directeur de collection. Il a également écrit quelques nouvelles sous le pseudonyme de George Kilian.
French editor Jacques Chambon, 60, died April 16, 2003 in Marcillac-la-Croisille, France, following a heart attack. An active critic in the late '60s and '70s, he collaborated on Fiction, the French edition of F&SF, and later translated books by Christopher Priest and Robert Silverberg among others. Since the late '80s he served as editor of the "Presence du Futur" and other lines for Editions Denoel, and the "Imagine" line at Editions Flammarion, keeping favorite writers in print (Bradbury, Priest, Silverberg, Shepard) and introducing many new writers to French readers, including Dan Simmons, Lisa Tuttle, and Mike Resnick. A longer obituary will appear in the May issue of Locus, while appreciations by Robert Silverberg, Mike Resnick, Gerard Klein, and others will appear in the June issue.