Sense of Gender Awards
September 2nd, 2007 by Kevin
[Retyped from the Nippon 2007 newsletter.]
The Sense of Gender Award, a sister award to the Tiptree, was founded in 2001 by the Japanese Association for Gender Fantasy and Science in order to celebrate works that invite us to reconsider gender in various fields, including literature, movies, and manga.
The award has two divisions: the domestic division is for works by Japanese artists, while the international division is for works translated into Japanese.
- Grand Prize: Ragged Girl (The Angel of the Closed Garden) Part 2 by Hirotaka Tobi
- Special Award: NIHON CHINBOTU (Japan Sinks) directed by Shinji Higuchi
- Translated work: Stable Strategies and Others by Eileen Gunn
[...] we were in Japan, Eileen’s book won the Sense of Gender Award, in the category of works in translation. It’s an award to “celebrate works that invite us to [...]