Jo Walton’s Among Others wins German science-fiction award

Jo Walton’s Among Others has won the 2014 Kurd Lasswitz Award (in German, the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis) in the category of best foreign novel translated into German. Named for Kurd Lasswitz (1848-1910), widely considered the father of German science fiction, the Kurd Lasswitz Award is the best-known science fiction award in Germany. Locus has a complete list of all this year’s Lasswitz winners.

Among Others was published in German in 2013 by Golkonda, under the title In einer anderen Welt (literally, “In a Different World”).

Congratulations to Jo and to her German publisher!