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Smoky the Cowhorse
Aladdin

Smoky the Cowhorse

Will James

Smoky knows only one way of life: freedom. Living on the open range, he is free to go where he wants and to do what he wants. And he knows what he has to do to survive. He can beat any enemy, whether it be a rattlesnake or a hungry wolf. He is as much a part of the Wild West as it is of him, and Smoky can't imagine anything else. But then he comes across a new enemy, one that walks on two legs and makes funny sounds. Smoky can't beat this enemy the way he has all the others. But does he really want to? Or could giving up some of his freedom mean getting something in return that's even more valuable?

Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)
Shaanxi Opera
The Writers Publishing House

Shaanxi Opera

Jia Pingwa

Set in Qingfeng Street, the novel portrays a changing village and the people who live there. Its dense, place-rooted prose reflects the shifts and strains of rural society.

Mao Dun Literature Prize
ヴァ-ノン・ゴッド・リトル: 死をめぐる21世紀の喜劇
ヴィレッジブックス

ヴァ-ノン・ゴッド・リトル: 死をめぐる21世紀の喜劇

DBCピエール, 都甲 幸治

A satirical novel in which Vernon, a boy insisting on his innocence after a school shooting, is cornered by the media and the justice system. Using black humor, it sharply examines a society that consumes violence, distorted reporting, and the isolation of the young.

Booker Prize
自由の国で (V.S.ナイポール・コレクション 3)
草思社

自由の国で (V.S.ナイポール・コレクション 3)

V・S・ナイポール, 安引 宏

Through five linked tales, V. S. Naipaul traces alienation, disruption, and racial tension in an unstable postcolonial world. The central African journey turns freedom and movement into something closer to displacement, making the book feel both sharply observed and deeply unsettled.

Booker Prize
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Tor Books

Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Ellen Datlow

As stated in her introduction to Inferno , Ellen Datlow asked her favorite authors for stories that would “provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels compelled to turn on the bright lights and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear.” Mission accomplished. Datlow has produced a collection filled with some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories’ characters toil within their own hell. An aptly titled anthology, Inferno will scare the pants off readers and further secure Ellen Datlow’s standing as a preeminent editor of modern horror.

Shirley Jackson Awards
Baisers de cinema

Baisers de cinema

Eric Fottorino

A novel that turns to cinema to trace memory, love, and loss, using filmic images and overlapping time to bring past and present into a single frame.

Prix Femina
神なるオオカミ・上
講談社

神なるオオカミ・上

姜 戎, 唐 亜明, 関野 喜久子

Set on the Inner Mongolian grasslands during the Cultural Revolution, the novel follows a Beijing intellectual drawn into nomadic life and the world of wolves, where ecological balance collides with human development. It combines the energy of an adventure story with a warning about the damage brought by modernization.

Man Asian Literary Prize
The Arrival
Hodder Children's Books

The Arrival

Shaun Tan

A wordless graphic narrative that uses detailed illustrations alone to tell an immigrant’s story of loneliness, adaptation, and hard-won connection.

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Nova Swing (S.F. Masterworks)
Gollancz

Nova Swing (S.F. Masterworks)

M. John Harrison

Set in a near-future city, the novel follows people whose lives intersect around a zone where uncanny events keep breaking through. Through loss, desire, and blurred borders between reality and the strange, it turns the city itself into part of the mystery.

Arthur C. Clarke Award