International

The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC) has announced its 2025 Book Award Winners, including Haruki Murakami as Cultural Personality of the Year for the 19th Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA). The award recognizes “a prominent Arab or international figure (or organization) who has contributed to the advancement of the Arabic culture, embodies through his/her work tolerance and promotes peaceful coexistence.”

In particular, the announcement credits Murakami’s “creative career and ...Read More

The shortlist for the 2025 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The six-title list includes Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt (Jonathan Cape) and Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon (Fig Tree).

The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its inaugural shortlist. Founded by Rose Goddard, Imran Khan, and Leo Barasi and supported by Climate Spring, the prize seeks to “celebrate the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.”

Shortlisted titles and authors of genre interest include The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Sceptre), Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen (Bloomsbury Circus), Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape), and The Morningside by ...Read More

The 12-title longlists for the Jhalak Prose Prize, Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize, and the new Jhalak Poetry Prize have been announced.

The awards “seek to celebrate books by writers of colour in the UK and Ireland.” The prize awards £1000 to each winner, along with “a unique work of art created by artists chosen for the annual Jhalak Art Residency.”

The longlist features several titles and authors of ...Read More

The shortlist has been announced for the 2025 Kurd Laßwitz Preis. The prize is awarded to German-language SF works published in the previous year.

The 16-title longlist has been announced for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Nominees of genre interest include:

The Scottish Book Trust has announced the 2025 winners of the New Writers Awards. The awardees included several writers of genre interest, such as:

• Z. K. Abraham received the Callan Gordon Award for short fiction. This award runs every two years, and is open to writers ages 18-35.
• Jade Mitchell was awarded for Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction.
• SE Holland, writing in Children and Young Adult category, received the Next Chapter

The 13-title longlist for the 2025 International Booker Prize has been announced, with works and writers of genre interest including:

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan (SFWJ) announced the results of the 45th Japan SF Grand Prize:

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.

The 20-title longlist ...Read More

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.

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