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Posted 2011-06-25 7:51 PM (#2473)
Subject: Seiun Award



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"The Seiun Award (星雲賞, Seiunshō?) is a Japanese science fiction award for the best science fiction published in Japan during the preceding year, as voted by attendees of the Japan Science Fiction Convention"

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Posted 2011-06-26 11:10 PM (#2476 - in reply to #2473)
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htaccess - 2011-06-25 7:51 PM"The Seiun Award (星雲賞, Seiunshō?) is a Japanese science fiction award for the best science fiction published in Japan during the preceding year, as voted by attendees of the Japan Science Fiction Convention"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiun_Award#Best_Foreign_Language_Novel_of_the_Year

That's an interesting award.  So those books, originally in English, get translated into Japanese and then get nominated for Best Foreign Language Novel of the Year?  Pretty cool.  Most of those books are many years older than their original publication dates.  Surprising how long it takes to get a book translated.  I suppose it's the same over here for books traveling the other way.

What I'd like is to get my hands on some of the Japanese winners in translation - but not 10 years after the award.  I've always wondered what they're reading over there right now and how it compares to the stuff that's getting all the attention over here.

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