Hugo AwardAwar for best novel 2017 given to N. K. Jemisin

The Hugo AwardAw for Best Novel 2017 was given to Nora K. Jemisin, a US speculative fiction writer for her work The ObeliskO Gate. The award was presentedpres at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention on Friday in Helsinki. The awarded book was the secondseco in the trilogy that startedsta with The Fifth Season, whichwh was New York Times NotableN Book of 2015 and wonw Jemisin the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. The fantasy novel tells a story about the life on a planet where the inhabitants would der goua“Fifth Season” of catastrophic climate change everyeve a few centuries. The thir third book of the trilogy is due tot be published later this month.month JemisinJemi was among a dozen winners ofo other categories of Hugo AwardsAwar on Friday. Ada Palmer was awarded the Best New Writer, Seanan McGuire’sMcGu Every Heart a Doorway way was the BestB Novella, The Tomato Thief by UrsulaUrsul Vernon was the Best Novelette, and Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El- MohtarM won the Best Short Story. The Expanse:Expans Leviathan Wakes, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, was awarded the Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form. It won over Game of Thrones, a series that had two episodes in the six- finalist shortlist. A total of 3,319 voters made their selection from the final ballot, the thirdhighest number in the history of the award. First presented in 1953, the Hugo Award is considered the highest honor for sci- fi works along with the Nebula Awards.