Author NK Jemisin has scooped her third Hugo award for best science-fiction novel
Taking the stage to accept her third win in three years for her novel The Stone Sky, Jemisin told the audience at the 76th World Science FictionConvention in San Jose, California, on Sunday that “this has been a hard year … a hard few years, a hard century,” adding: “For some of us, things have always been hard, and I wrote the Broken Earth trilogy to speak to that struggle, and what it takes to live, let alone thrive, in a world that seems determined to break you.”
In 2016, Jemisin became the first African American to win the best novel category for The Fifth Season, repeating the achievement again in 2017 for its sequel, The Obelisk Gate.
On making it a hat-trick with The Stone Sky, the third book in her Broken Earth series, Jemisin said: “As this genre finally, however grudgingly, acknowledges that the dreams of the marginalised matter, and that all of us have a future, so will the world.”
Jemisin’s success has heralded an increasing shift away from science fiction and fantasy being dominated by white male authors. Other winners at this year’s Hugo awards include Rebecca Roanhorse, who won best short story for her Native American tale Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience; Suzanne Palmer’s The Secret Life of Bots, which scooped best novelette; and Martha Wells’s All Systems Red, which won best novella.
Veteran writer Lois McMaster Bujold, herself a four-time best novel winner, won the best series award for her World of the Five Gods sequence. The comic series Monstress, written by Marjorie M Liu and illustrated by Sana Takeda, was named best graphic story, with the latter also scooping best professional artist.
A giant of science fiction and fantasy, Ursula K Le Guin, who died in Januaryaged 88, won best related work for her book of essays, No Time to Spare.
No comments:
Post a Comment