Book prize winners

Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign Work winners

17 winners and 72 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

Winners

  1. 2023 The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers First edition not yet identified
  2. 2022 The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: Orbit 2020
  3. 2020 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood First edition not yet identified
  4. 2018 The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor First edition not yet identified
  5. 2017 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin First edition not yet identified
  6. 2016 Seveneves by Neal Stephenson First edition not yet identified
  7. 2014 Among Others by Jo Walton First edition: Tor 2011
  8. 2012 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi First edition: Night Shade Books 2009
  9. 2010 The Android's Dream by John Scalzi First edition: Tor 2006
  10. 2009 Glasshouse by Charles Stross First edition: Orbit 2006
  11. 2007 Spin by Robert Charles Wilson First edition: Tor 2005
  12. 2004 A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge First edition not yet identified
  13. 2002 To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis First edition: Bantam Books 1997
  14. 2000 Distress by Greg Egan First edition: Millennium 1995
  15. 1998 Excession by Iain Banks First edition: Little, Brown 1996
  16. 1994 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis First edition not yet identified
  17. 1993 Use of Weapons by Iain Banks First edition: OrbitBooks 1990

Shortlisted and nominated

  1. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon First edition not yet identified
  2. 2024 Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Harper & Row 1985
  3. 2024 Babel by R.F. Kuang First edition: Harper Voyager 2022
  4. 2024 Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel First edition not yet identified
  5. 2024 Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson First edition: William Morrow 2021
  6. 2023 A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine First edition not yet identified
  7. 2023 The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2018
  8. 2023 The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2020
  9. 2022 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro First edition: Faber & Faber 2021
  10. 2022 Network Effect by Martha Wells First edition: Tor 2020
  11. 2022 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir First edition: Ballantine Books 2021
  12. 2021 Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin First edition not yet identified
  13. 2021 Rosewater by Tade Thompson First edition not yet identified
  14. 2021 Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica First edition not yet identified
  15. 2020 A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine First edition: Tor 2019
  16. 2019 A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers First edition not yet identified
  17. 2019 Autonomous by Annalee Newitz First edition: Tor 2017
  18. 2019 Central Station by Lavie Tidhar First edition: Tachyon 2016
  19. 2019 New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: Orbit 2017
  20. 2018 Borne by Jeff VanderMeer First edition not yet identified
  21. 2017 Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition not yet identified
  22. 2017 Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor First edition: Hodder & Stoughton 2014
  23. 2016 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie First edition not yet identified
  24. 2016 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel First edition not yet identified
  25. 2015 Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer First edition not yet identified
  26. 2014 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: Orbit 2012
  27. 2013 Embassytown by China Miéville First edition: Brand: Macmillan 2011
  28. 2013 Redshirts by John Scalzi First edition not yet identified
  29. 2013 Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson First edition: Tor 2011
  30. 2012 Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear First edition: Orbit 2010
  31. 2012 Surface Detail by Iain Banks First edition: Orbit 2010
  32. 2011 Transition by Iain Banks First edition: Orbit 2009
  33. 2010 Saturn's Children by Charles Stross First edition: Ace Books 2008
  34. 2009 Blindsight by Peter Watts First edition: Tor 2006
  35. 2008 The Road by Cormac McCarthy First edition not yet identified
  36. 2007 Accelerando by Charles Stross First edition: Ace Books 2005
  37. 2007 Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Gollancz 2004
  38. 2006 Kiln People by David Brin First edition: Tor 2002
  39. 2006 Singularity Sky by Charles Stross First edition: Ace Books 2003
  40. 2006 The Plot Against America by Philip Roth First edition not yet identified
  41. 2005 Darwin's Children by Greg Bear First edition not yet identified
  42. 2005 Evolution by Stephen Baxter First edition: Gollancz 2002
  43. 2005 Light by M. John Harrison First edition: Gollancz 2002
  44. 2005 Pattern Recognition by William Gibson First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
  45. 2005 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde First edition: Hodder & Stoughton 2001
  46. 2005 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger First edition: MacAdam/Cage 2003
  47. 2004 King Rat by China Miéville First edition not yet identified
  48. 2004 Look to Windward by Iain Banks First edition: Orbit 2000
  49. 2003 Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson First edition: Tor 1998
  50. 2003 Forever Free by Joe Haldeman First edition not yet identified
  51. 2002 Teranesia by Greg Egan First edition: Gollancz 1999
  52. 2001 Diaspora by Greg Egan First edition: Orion / Millenium 1997
  53. 2001 Feersum Endjinn by Iain Banks First edition: Orbit 1994
  54. 2000 Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition: Baen Books 1996
  55. 2000 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler First edition: Four Walls Eight Windows 1993
  56. 2000 River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams First edition: DAW Books 1998
  57. 2000 The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons First edition not yet identified
  58. 1999 3001 by Arthur C. Clarke First edition: HarperCollins 1997
  59. 1999 Against a Dark Background by Iain Banks First edition: Orbit 1993
  60. 1999 Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card First edition: Tor 1996
  61. 1999 City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams First edition: DAW Books 1996
  62. 1999 Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem First edition: Harcourt, Brace 1994
  63. 1999 Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack First edition: HarperCollins 1993
  64. 1999 Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon First edition: Baen Books 1996
  65. 1999 Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick First edition: Morrow 1991
  66. 1999 The Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven First edition not yet identified
  67. 1998 Idoru by William Gibson First edition not yet identified
  68. 1998 Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold First edition: Baen Books 1994
  69. 1998 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: HarperCollins 1992
  70. 1998 The Prestige by Christopher Priest First edition: Touchstone 1995
  71. 1998 The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer First edition: HarperPrism 1995
  72. 1998 Vurt by Jeff Noon First edition: Crown 1993

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