The Science Fiction and Fantasy Rosetta Awards for works translated into English were unveiled today. The award will spotlight “the great but underrated efforts of translators and those who endeavor to make the translation works come true.” The juried award will have three categories: Long-form. 40K English words or above.Short-form. Under 40K words.A Special Service Award will be awarded to the author, editor, translator, activist or publisher who makes great contribution to promotion of non-English SFF internationally. Cheryl Morgan, first chair of the awards jury, says SFFRA came about this way: Earlier this year I was approached by the lovely people at the Future Affairs Administration in China. They were interested in starting up a new set of SF&F translation awards and they wanted me to be part of the jury. Gary Wolfe was also involved, and I still very much believe in having such awards, so I said yes. Morgan and Wolfe previously worked on the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards last given in 2013. Some of the key eligibility requirements for the new SFFRA award are: Must be a translation from Non-English to English, and published either in print or electronically through publisher/magazine. The eligibility is based on...
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