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Nalo Hopkinson scores a second Sunburst award for best scifi in Canada
19/09/2008 . Source: Jessica Martin 
What's the best works of science fiction in Canada this year? Well, the Sunburst Award winner of their first young-adult award is Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx, while The New Moon's Arms has brought Nalo Hopkinson her second award... she also won the Sunburst Award in 2003. Buy The New Moon's Arms in the USA - or Buy The New Moon's Arms in the UK  This is the first year that a YA award has been presented. The eligibility requirements of the YA award are the same as for the adult award except for the age of the audience (the prize is the same as well). To qualify, Joanne Proulx lives in Ottawa, Nalo Hopkinson lives in Toronto.
Speaking about The New Moon’s Arms, the jurors told SFcrowsnest, "Nalo Hopkinson crafts an engrossing story featuring an unforgettable character. With generous doses of mystery, humour, magical fantasy and insight, The New Moon's Arms is an entrancing read."
Chatting about Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, the Sunburst bods told us, "Proulx doesn't shy away from showing the tumultuous mix of beauty and ugliness at work in the mind of a teen stoner. Her debut novel tackles ESP, drug use, teen sexuality and the mores of small-town conservative Michigan all foregrounded against the soundscape of Luke Hunter's life. There is no doubt teens will recognize many of the characters in this uncomfortable novel. The book, like the protagonist, is not without flaws; Proulx's huge accomplishment here is writing a character whose rage, frustration and love are palpable through the disaffected teen voice."
The jurors for the 2008 awards were Timothy Anderson, Kelley Armstrong, Barbara Haworth-Attard, Dena Taylor and Robert Wiersema. They selected five shortlisted works in each category as representing the finest of Canadian fantastic literature published during the 2007 calendar year.
The other shortlisted works for the 2008 adult award were...
Double-blind - Michelle Butler Hallett.
Darkness of the God - Amber Hayward.
Wonderfull - William Neil Scott.
Axis - Robert Charles Wilson.
The other shortlisted works for the 2008 YA award were...
Choices - Deborah Lynn Jacobs.
Retribution - Carrie Mac.
Darkwing - Kenneth Oppel.
The Night Wanderer - Drew Hayden Taylor.
The 2009 award jurors will be Barbara Berson, John Dupuis, Ed Greenwood, Sandra Kasturi and Simon Rose.
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a prized and juried award presented annually. It is based on excellence of writing and awarded to a Canadian writer who has published a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection any time during the previous calendar year. Named after the novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction, the award consists of a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion which incorporates a Sunburst logo, designed by Marcel Gagné.
More over at www.sunburstaward.org
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