City of Saints Wins Tähtifantasia Award!
(detail from the cover of the Finnish edition)
I’m incredibly honored that City of Saints & Madmen from Loki Books (run by Niko Aula) has won the first annual Tähtifantasia Award for the best fantasy translation published in Finnish.
Congratulations also to my wonderful translator Johanna Vainikainen-Uusitalo. The Helsinki SF Society decides the award, and it’s the counterpart to an award given out for SF, won by Stepan Chapman’s The Troika mostly recently.
The full announcement can be found on the highly recommended Partial Recall blog.
Jeff
August 21, 2007 at 7:13 am
Excellent news. Glasses of tar liquor all round, I think.
August 21, 2007 at 7:15 am
Congrats to you and Johanna!
August 21, 2007 at 7:46 am
Brilliant, Jeff. And congrats to Stepan for The Troika too.
btw – continuing the saga, did you get any of my emails towards the end of last week?
Neil
August 21, 2007 at 7:49 am
nope, i don’t think so. mebbee use the hotmail account?
August 21, 2007 at 7:50 am
I also think I’m not getting emails from Joe Gordon.
jv
August 21, 2007 at 8:03 am
So, you’re saying you don’t get emails from Scotland? That’s what you’re saying? Blimey!
August 21, 2007 at 8:17 am
Hm, maybe you didn’t get an email from me either. Anything about web sites?
(I’m in England, Neil, so Jeff’s email is probably equally prejudiced against all Brits.)
August 21, 2007 at 8:21 am
Nope–got that, Cheryl. Responding soon.
Thanks for the congrats!
Jeff
August 21, 2007 at 8:47 am
Congrats Jeff (and Johanna)! That’s squidtastic.
August 21, 2007 at 10:27 am
Great news Jeff!
August 21, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Many congrats Jeff and Johanna!
August 21, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Yay, congrats to the pair of you!
August 21, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Hey, thanks!
JV
August 22, 2007 at 7:36 am
Congrats Jeff and Johanna. And what an excellent looking cover.
August 22, 2007 at 8:17 am
Wow, thanks everybody! It has been a pleasure to translate Jeff’s work. Not easy, but I’ve loved the challenges and had great fun! Now we should have better chances to get Shriek published here…
August 23, 2007 at 11:48 am
It’s a excellent translation even If I have to go on ccomplaning about leaving out Dradin in Love frome the finnish edition. *still upset* but anyvay. Congrats to all. And now I start to look forward to the Shriek and Venice Underground.