Seiun winners announced
July 7th, 2012 by Petrea Mitchell
The Seiun Award winners have been announced at Varicon 2012, with official translations of (nearly all) Japanese titles for once:
- Best Japanese Novel: Tengoku and Zigoku, Yasumi Kobayashi
- Best Japanese Short Story: “The Singing Submarine and Peer-Peer Douga”, Hosuke Nojiri
- Best Foreign Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi, translated by Kazue Tanaka and Hiroshi Kaneko
- Best Foreign Short Story: “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, Ted Chiang, translated by Nozomi Ohmori
- Best Media: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Best Comic: Gundam: The Origin
- Best Artist: Naohiro Washio
- Best Nonfiction: Hideo Azuma Soutokushu (The Hideo Azuma Omnibus)
- Best Event: No award (no nominations)
