Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud has faithfully pursued, over the last thirty years, his muse of the fantastic outside the fashions of contemporary French fiction. His novel La Faculté des songes (Grasset, 1982), the third of seven, won in 1982 the prestigious Prix Renaudot, while his ninth and most recent collection of stories, Singe savant tabassé par deux clowns (Grasset, 2005), was awarded the Bourse Goncourt for achievement in the form. (updated 2006)