News From Finland
Jeff VanderMeer • July 5th, 2007 @ 3:39 pm • Uncategorized
Tähtifantasia-award
Helsinki SF Society has been giving The Tähtivaeltaja-award for the best Science Fiction book published in Finland for over 20 years. Now HSFS has started a new award called Tähtifantasia (Star Fantasy) that will be given yearly to the best translated Fantasy book published in Finland during the previous year.
The winner will be chosen by a jury of experts. The five nominees for the best translated Fantasy book published in Finland in 2006 are:
- Jonathan Carroll: Valkoiset omenat (White Apples)
- Jukka Halme (ed.): Uuskummaa? Modernin fantasian antologia (New Weird? An Anthology of Modern Fantasy – Includes short stories from Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Jeffrey Ford, Margo Lanagan etc)
- George R. R. Martin: Miekkamyrsky, part 2 (A Storm of Swords – The second half)
- Patricia A. McKillip: Unohdettu Ombria (Ombria in Shadow)
- Jeff VanderMeer: Pyhimysten ja mielipuolten kaupunki (The City of Saints and Madmen – Selection of stories)
The winner will be announced in August.
July 6, 2007 at 1:32 am
Well, since you are in two of the books, your chances are high. It seems like you are very much loved by the fins :)
Congrats!
July 6, 2007 at 3:32 am
The only thing that was a very little dissapointment in City of Saints and Madmen was that the story Dradin in Love not was in the book. But I can live with that.
Anyway. Congratulations.
July 6, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Blame the publisher, not me. LOL!
Jeff
July 10, 2007 at 7:36 am
Wow- Dradin in Love was my favorite story from that collection. Which, BTW, I am kicking myself over, because I had one of the original Dradin in Love paperbacks that was released through Buzzcity press, with Jeff’s signature- and I lent it to a friend and it is now gone. Gone. To california.
Oh, I’m off track. Again.
Congrats! Here’s fingers crossing and all that good stuff.