International

Spread the Word, a literary development agency in London, has announced the 2025 winners of their London Writers Awards for emerging writers. The Awards are split into three categories, Literary, Commercial, and YA/Children’s; of the 24 awardees, there are several with work of speculative and genre interest, including:

The finalists for the 2025 Zsoldos Péter Award have been announced, honoring Hungarian works of speculative fiction. Note: Hungarian names are written in traditional order, with surname first.

• Ház a kráter szélén, Nemere István & Képes Gábor (olvasoterem.hu)
• Branstetter, Patonai Anikó Ágnes (magánkiadás)
• Kárhozott testvériség, Ian Pole (Stílus És Technika)
• Százezer mérföld, Michael Walden (Metropolis Media)

Short Stories

• “Az egyetlen”, Bartos Anita (A Legjobb

The longlist for the 2025 Branford Boase Award for children’s books has been announced.

In a press release, contest organizers remarked on the prevalence of genre fiction in children’s literature during 2024. Fantasy was a large part of current trends in children’s fiction, and this year’s longlist press release was titled “Apocalypse Now” in response to “a preponderance of post, pre and even mid-apocalyptic adventures” for children.

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Finalists have been announced for the 2025 Prix Bob Morane, recognizing French-language works in the science fiction, fantasy, espionage, and thriller genres.

The British organization Society of Authors has announced the winners and runners-up for its 2024 Translation Prizes. The Prizes, “celebrating translation around the globe,” honor works translated into English across several categories.

A total of eight winning works and several runners-up were recognized, with titles and authors of genre interest including:

The 2024 Albertine Translation Prize, which honors American publishers of French works translated into English, has been announced by Villa Albertine. The fiction prize was awarded to translator Eve Hill-Agnus for her translation of Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro (Deep Vellum), a seafaring novel with speculative elements.

Villa Albertine is the cultural and educational division of the French Embassy in the U.S. The Prize winners are selected by a committee of ...Read More

The 19 winning titles for the January 2025 PEN Translates awards have been announced. The awards are given to works translated from other languages into English, “on the basis of outstanding literary quality, the strength of the publishing project, and their contribution to UK bibliodiversity.” Many of the works are forthcoming for 2025 and 2026.

Winning titles and authors of genre interest include:

The five-title shortlist for the annual Tähtivaeltaja Award has been announced, honoring the best science fiction published in Finland. The award is sponsored by Helsingin Science Fiction Seura (Helsinki Science Fiction Society). The nominees are:

The longlist for the 2025 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced and includes several works of genre interest amongst the twelve selected.

The 71-title longlist for the Dublin Literary Award has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest follow.

Four category winners have been announced for the Nero Book Awards for 2024 titles. Of genre interest are Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Lesie (Dead Ink) and The Twelve by Liz Hyder, illustrated by Tom De Freston (Pushkin).

The Awards are run by Caffè Nero, and have four categories: Children’s Fiction, Debut Fiction, Fiction and Non-Fiction. The winners receive £5,000.

From these four winners, one book will be ...Read More

Lee Murray is among those appointed by King Charles III as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in recognition of her “services to literature, particularly speculative literature.” ONZM officers will be presented with ONZM insignia at an investiture to be held at New Zealand’s Government House later in the year. The complete ONZM list celebrates 30 people for their contributions to New Zealand across various cultural, ...Read More

The winners of the second Fishing Fortress Science Fiction Awards, honoring the best in Chinese SF writing, were announced on November 9, 2024.

Sci-Fi Master Achievement

Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape; Grove Atlantic US) is the winner of the 2024 Man Booker Prize. It depicts the lives of astronauts, and is “the first Booker Prize-winning book set in space.”

This year’s shortlist also included James by Percival Everett (Mantle;Doubleday US).

ActuSF has announced the winners for the 2024 Prix de l’Uchronie. The prize is awarded to works of alternate history, written or translated into French and published between September 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.

Prix Littéraire

Winners for the 2024 Premio Italia Awards have been announced, honoring accomplishments in the field of Italian fantasy and science fiction.

The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the winners for the 2024 Ignotus Awards, honoring speculative fiction from Spain and beyond.

The winners of the 2024 Prix Utopiales and the 2024 Prix Utopiales Jeunesse have been announced. The prizes recognize work in the fantastic genres published or translated into French.

Prix Utopiales (Adult Literature)

• WINNER: Code Ardant, Marge Nantel (Les éditions Mnémos)
• Aux ordres, Louise Carey (L’Atalante)
• Sweet Harmony, Claire North (Le Bélial)
• L’Ost céleste, Olivier Paquet (L’Atalante)
• La Maison des Soleils, Alastair Reynolds (Le Bélial)

Finalists for the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing, including several works of genre interest, have been announced, including “Breastmilk” by ‘Pemi Aguda (One Story 5/27/21).

The winner will be selected by a panel of judges and announced at an awards dinner to be held September 17, 2024. The winner will receive a £10,000 prize.

For more information, see the Caine Prize website.

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Kertomukset, Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anu Partanen (Teos) is the winner of the 2024 Tähtifantasia Award, presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best Finnish fantasy book published in the previous year. Other nominees were

The five-title shortlist for the Tähtivaeltaja Award has been announced, honoring the best science fiction published in Finland. The award is sponsored by Helsingin Science Fiction seura (Helsinki Science Fiction Society). The nominees are: