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Hugo Awards 2017: NK Jemisin Wins Best Novel for 2nd Year in a Row

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Hugo Awards 2017: NK Jemisin Wins Best Novel for 2nd Year in a Row

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A year after NK Jemisin became the first black person to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the African American author has landed the prestigious science fiction prize for the second year running.

Jemisin was announced as the winner of the best novel Hugo at Worldcon in Helsinki, Finland on Friday. She took the prize, which is voted for by fans, for The Obelisk Gate, the follow-up to her Hugo award-winning novel The Fifth Season. The series is set in a world that is constantly threatened by seismic activity, and where the mutants who can control the environment are oppressed by humans.

The New York Times called Jemisin’s writing in the series “intricate and extraordinary”. Hugos administrator Nicholas Whyte said that 3,319…

Please read original article Hugo Awards 2017: NK Jemisin Wins Best Novel for 2nd Year in a Row posted on Healthy Black Girls on 16 August 2017 | 12:33 am —

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