Awards and Nominations
Finalist - Premio Salerno Libro d'Europa 2016 Award
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Salerno Readers' Circle,
Readers' Choice Award - The HelMet literary award
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The voters described the book as a “surprising, touching, compelling, and as a book that offers a strong reading experience.”
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries,
Nomination - Buxtehude Bull Award
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The city of Buxtehude,
Nomination - The Compton Crook Award
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Baltimore Science Fiction Society,
Nomination - Arthur C. Clarke Award
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The judges praised the “Beautiful writing” and “The strength of the relationship” at the heart of the novel. It is “intensely focused, narrow-ranging, almost flawless on its own terms.”
Arthur C. Clarke Award Panel and Serendip,
Honor List - The James Tiptree Jr. Award
Memory of Water
Praise from the jury: “This beautifully crafted novel, written simultaneously in English and Finnish, uses a delicately-told coming-of-age tale to examine a future replete with water crises, a totalitarian police state, and suffocating gender roles.”
James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council,
Nomination - Philip K. Dick Award
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Philadelphia Science Fiction Society,
Nomination - Golden Tentacle Award
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The Kitschies,
Young Aleksis Kivi Prize
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Praise from the jury: “With its beauty and lyricism, Memory of Water brings the reader a vision of a future society that is a result of the indifference of our current society. The beautifully told tale subtly directs the readers to think about their own behaviour.”
The Federation of Finnish Mother Tongue Teachers in Finland,
Nomination - Tähtivaeltaja Award
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Helsinki Science Fiction Society,
Kalevi Jäntti Prize for young authors
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Praise from the jury: “The novel grows into a mysterious allegory about the dilemmas of truth, freedom and loyalty. Emmi Itäranta has combined science fiction and age-old utopian tradition to write a skilful dystopia which reflects the great social and environmental challenges of our time.”
Kalevi Jäntti Foundation,
Winner - Teos Sci-fi and Fantasy Literary Contest
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Praise from the jury: “The winning manuscript is solid and impressive, both in terms of language and building a future vision. Like all good science fiction, this work is in dialogue with our current reality: it makes visible a world towards which we may already be headed against our will.”