Hayakawa Award

The Hayakawa Award is an award chosen annually by its readers ("Hayakawa SF Magazine") for the best Japanese short story, illustrator, and foreign short story. The honor has been awarded since 1989. Most likely this is due to the decline of science-fiction known as the Wintery Age (冬の時代 "Fuyu no Jidai") that began in the late 80's.

Award Winners

Foreign Short Story

* Thomas M. Disch, "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" ("Translator: Hisashi Asakura") (1989)
* Mike Resnick, "For I Have Touched the Sky" ("Translator: Masayuki Uchida") (1990)
* John Varley, "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo" ("Translator: Hisashi Asakura") (1991)
* John Morressy, "Timekeeper" ("Translator: Youko Miki") (1992)
* James Tiptree, Jr "With Delicate Mad Hands" ("Translator: Norio Itou") (1993)
* Ted Chiang, "Understand" ("Translator: Shigeyuki Kude") (1994)
* Greg Egan, "Learning to Be Me" ("Translator: Makoto Yamagashi") (1995)
* Greg Bear, "Heads" ("Translator: Kazuko Onoda") (1996)
* James Tiptree, Jr "Come Live With Me" ("Translator: Norio Itou") (1997)
* Greg Egan, "Wang's Carpet" ("Translator: Makoto Yamagishi") (1998)
* Bruce Sterling, "Taklamakan" ("Translator: Takashi Ogawa") (1999)
* Greg Egan, "Oceanic" ("Translator: Makoto Yamagishi") (2000)
* Ted Chiang, "Story of Your Life" ("Translator: Shigeyuki Kude") (2001)
* Ted Chiang, "Seventy-Two Letters" ("Translator: Youichi Shimada") (2002)
* Greg Egan, "Mister Volition" ("Translator: Makoto Yamagishi") (2003)
* Connie Willis, "The Last of the Winnebagos" ("Translator: Ohmori Nozomi"(2004)
* Jeffrey Ford, "The Empire of Ice Cream" ("Translator: Tomo Inoue")
* Bradley Denton, "Sergeant Chip" ("Translator: Naoya Nakahara") (2006)
* Ian McDonald, "The Djinn's Wife" ("Translator: Masaya Shimogusu") (2007)

Japanese Short Story

* Mariko Ōhara, "Aqua Planet" (1989)
* Shinji Kajio, "Jinii Ni Kansuru Oboegaki" (1990)
* Mariko Ōhara, "Ephemera" (1991)
* Goro Masaki, "Venus City"¹ (1992)
* Hiroyuki Morioka, "Spice" (1993)
* Osamu Makino, "Mouse Trap" (1994)
* Masaki Yamada, "Dead Soldier's Live" ¹ (1995)
* Jin Kusagami, "Tokyo Kaika Ereki no Karakuri" ¹ (1996)
* Koushu Tani, "Eriko" ¹ (1997)
* Yasumi Kobayashi, "Umi wo Miru Hito" (1998)
* Housuke Nojiri, "Taiyō no Sandatsusha" (1999)
* Masaya Fujita, "Kiseki no Ishi" (2000)
* Chōhei Kanbayashi, "Hadae no Shita" ¹ (2001)
* Mizuhito Akiyama, "Ore ha Missile" (2002)
* Issui Ogawa, "Rou Voles no Wakusei" (2003)
* Hiroshi Sakurazaka, "Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo" (2004)
* Hiroshi Yamamoto, "Medousa no Jumon" (2005)
* Masaya Fujita, "Daafu no Shima" (2006)
* Keikaku Itoh, "The Indifference Engine" (2007)

Illustrator

* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1989)
* Mafuyu Hiroki (1990)
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto, Hitoshi Yoneda (tie) (1991)
* Mafuyu Hiroki (1992)
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1993)
* Keinojou Mizutama (1994)
* Jun Kosaka (1995)
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1996)
* Hikaru Tanaka (1997)
* Hikaru Tanaka (1998)
* Youkou Fujiwara (1999)
* Kenji Tsuruta (2000)
* Hikaru Tanaka (2001)
* Mikio Masuda (2002)
* Youkou Fujiwara (2003)
* Aya Takano (2004)
* Aya Takano (2005)
* Katsukame Hashi (2006)
* Kashima (2007)

Notes

¹ Was most likely serialized in "Hayakawa SF Magazine".

References

* [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hayakawa.html The Locus Index to SF Awards]
* [http://www.fan.gr.jp/~hosoi/japanesesf/sfmreaders.html List of Hayakawa SF Magazine's Reader Awards]