The winners of the 15th annual Xingyun Awards for Chinese science fiction were announced by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association at a ceremony in Chengdu on May 18.
Ironically, the award for Best Translated Work was presented to R.F. Kuang’s Babel in the same hall that hosted last year’s Hugo Awards for which the novel was unjustifiably ruled ineligible by the committee.
BEST NOVEL 2023
- The City in the Well, by Liu Yang (People’s Literature Publishing House)
BEST NOVELLA 2023
- “The Fleeting Gravity of Words”, by Zhou Wen (Visiting the Stars: Chinese Stories of Flying to the Outer Space)
BEST SHORT STORY 2023
- “Let the White Deer Roam”, by Cheng Jingbo (Science Fiction World, November 2023)
BEST TRANSLATED WORK 2023
- Babel, by R.F. Kuang, translated by Chen Yang (CITIC Press)
BEST NON-FICTION 2023
- Gazing at the Stars: My Personal Encounter with Chinese Science Fiction, by Yang Xiao (Sichuan People’s Publishing House; Science Fiction World)
BEST NEW WRITER 2021-2023
- Lu Hang
BEST REVIEW 2023
- No Award
[Thanks to Feng Zhang and the World Chinese Science Fiction Association for the title translations.]
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I feel like I should make a comment but I don’t know what to say.
If words fail you, maybe you need to create a picture! (Hint, hint…)
It looks like they did not have a winner in the Best Review category, but did give the Silver Award to a piece about Ursula Le Guin. (A bit mean of a juried prize to go for No Award!)
The jury has some special promotion goal for that category, as has explained in the ceremony slides:
The subjects of this year’s shortlisted reviews are quite varied, including post-reading essays, book reviews, movie reviews, and analysis and discussion of Western classics. However, the jury believes that the shortlisted reviews did not pay enough attention to contemporary Chinese science fiction literature and Chinese science fiction film and television. We look forward to seeing excellent reviews in the future that have independent thoughts and unique insights and can provide innovative thinking for science fiction research. Therefore, it is a pity that the Gold Award for Commentary this year is vacant.
That is one gorgeous award.