When I heard that the 2017 World Fantasy Award winners had been announced, I excitedly glanced through the list, only to be disappointed when I found absolutely no authors who write in a language other than English. Then I became curious and combed through the past World Fantasy Awards, and found that, throughout its history, non-Anglophone authors are only honored a handful of times. Makes me wonder why it’s called the World Fantasy Award. Anyway, I picked out all of the authors of SF in translation and made a list so you don’t have to go combing through the award lists yourself. Enjoy!

 

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2016

Lifetime Achievement- Winner- Andrzej Sapkowski [Polish]

Collection- Finalist- Leena Krohn: The Collected Fiction by Leena Krohn, multiple translators (Cheeky Frawg) [Finnish]

 

2015

Novella- Finalist- “Where the Trains Turn” by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, translated by  Liisa Rantalaiho (Tor.com, Nov 19, 2014) [Finnish]

 

2013

Collection- Finalist- Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck, translated by the author (Cheeky Frawg) [Swedish]

 

2011

Lifetime Achievement- Winner- Angélica Gorodischer [Spanish- Argentina]

Special Award, Professional- Finalist- Stéphane Marsan & Alain Névant, for Bragelonne [French]

 

2010

Collection- Winner- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tale by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, translated by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers (Penguin) [Russian]

 

2006

Novel- Winner- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel (Harvill; Knopf) [Japanese]

Special Award- Professional- Finalist- S. T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemianowicz, eds., for Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia

 

2005

Novella- Finalist- Tainaron: Mail from Another City by Leena Krohn, translated by Hildi Hawkins (Prime Books) [Finnish]

 

2003

Novella- Winner- “The Library” by Zoran Zivkovic, translated by Alice Copple-Tošić (Leviathan, Volume Three) [Serbian]

 

1987

Novel- Winner: Perfume by Patrick Süskind, translated by John E. Woods (Knopf) [German]

 

1984

Novel- Finalist– The Wandering Unicorn (1965) by Manuel Mujica Láinez, translated by Mary Fitton (Taplinger) [Spanish- Argentina]

 

1982

Lifetime Achievement- Winner: Italo Calvino [Italy]

 

1979

Life Achievement- Winner: Jorge Luis Borges [Spanish- Argentina]