The 2018 Seiun Award winners were announced July 21 by Duracon, the 57th Japanese national SF convention. The award has nine categories. Below are the categories for translated works, and a few other categories of international interest.

FOREIGN NOVEL

• Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel. Translated by Chiori Sada

FOREIGN SHORT STORY

• “Folding Beijing” by Jingfang Hao. Translated by Mayumi Otani

MEDIA DIVISION

• Kemono Friends

ART CATEGORY

• Noriko Nagano – Personal site

FREE CATEGORY

• “Superhuman rock” birth 50 anniversary tribute project – Young King’s Hours 2 – July issue Anthology “superhuman rock hero” publication,

Editor’s Note: I have followed the translations shown in the Wikipedia article for the first three categories. Note some translator names lack diacritical marks over some letters because WordPress turns them into question marks. The “Free Category” relies on Google Translate (beware!)