CITY OF SAINTS: COSMIC BUG WINNER
The influential French website Le Cafard cosmique, which translates as the Cosmic Bug, has awarded its latest Cosmic Bug Award to City of Saints & Madmen. Prior winners include Gene Wolfe and M. John Harrison, so I am well and truly chuffed.
As you can see above, not only did the jury get to talk about books at a cafe, they got to do so in FRANCE, those bastards. Trust me, it wouldn't have been the same if they were conferring in Tallahassee.
The google-translated page about the award is here. According to google's strangled French, it's the Cockroach Award, btw.
I believe translator Gilles Goullet deserves most of the credit, and yet another free beer. I'm beginning to wonder if going to France in October is actually a good idea, given the amount of beer I will be paying for...
Now I just hope there's a bug statue involved...
Jeff
posted by JeffV @ 10:07 AM
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10 Comments:
Vive le VanderMeer! Congratulations to ze most extraordinaire auteur de current phantastique literature!
Mon ami, you now have official permission to walk around annoying everyone for a week with a bad Clouseau accent.
Personally I'd like to see the Tallahassee version - I can imagine the literary discussion over a bout of 'gator wrestling.
Love the translator:
it reads "Price of the Cosmic Cockroach"
How much do those bugs cost anyway?
--Eric S
Trust me Jeff, the price of the cafard cosmique is one of the best in france. It's not the Hugo, but you can be proud. :-)
They're truly the finest amateur of the Sci-fi Novels IMO. the proof ? I'll get your book tomorrow :-)
You'll be more than welcome in france then...
Congratulations,
Seb
Thanks, all. Thanks Seb. Is this Sebastien my beloved editor?
Well, even if not--I should thank Sebastien Guillot, my editor in France who braved stunning heat to show us Versailles last year.
Jeff
Dare NOT to come to France, and ye shall be forever damned! I have cancelled my Eurocon trip to Copenhagen so that I will be able to go to Nantes in November, so you'd better be there!
PS: Congrats on the Cockroach award (it's cockroach, not just any bug, by the way)!
Gosh, i'm on the picture. See you in Nantes on november Jeff, we will drink a beer with the other members of the Cafardcosmique's team.
k2r2--sounds good to me!
Horia--if you're not there, I will track you down and let loose a Predator on you. I'm serious. If you're not there...
JeffV
Hé Hé, I suspect that Seb is in fact one of the guy present on the photograph.
Don't thank me, it's just a denouncement. Sorry Seb, the truth was to be revealed.
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