The Hugo Award for Best Novel 2017 was given to Nora K. Jemisin, an American speculative fiction writer for her work The Obelisk Gate. The award was presented at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention on Friday in Helsinki.
美国科幻小说家杰米辛因其作品《方尖碑之门（The Obelisk Gate）》荣获2017年雨果最佳小说奖。该奖项于周五在赫尔辛基举行的第75届世界科幻小说大会上颁发。
The awarded book was the second in the trilogy that started with The Fifth Season, which was New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and won Jemisin the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016.
《方尖碑之门》是杰米辛“破碎之地”系列的第二部小说，该系列第一部小说《第五季（The Fifth Season）》2015年获得了《纽约时报》“最佳小说奖”、2016年获得了雨果奖。
The fantasy novel tells a story about the life on a planet where the inhabitants would undergo a "Fifth Season" of catastrophic climate change every a few centuries. The third book of the trilogy is due to be published later this month.
这部小时讲述了一个奇幻世界中的故事，这个世界的居民每几个世纪就会遭遇灾难性的气候变化“第五季”。该系列第三部小说预计将于本月下旬出版。
Jemisin was among a dozen winners of other categories of Hugo Awards on Friday. Ada Palmer was awarded the Best New Writer, Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway was the Best Novella, The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon was the Best Novelette, and Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar the Best Short Story.
和杰米辛一起，周五还有多位作家也获得了雨果奖。艾达.帕梅尔获得了最佳新人作家奖、肖恩.麦奎尔凭借《每扇心门》获得了最佳中篇小说奖、厄休拉.弗农凭借《西红柿盗贼》获得了最佳中短篇小说奖，阿玛尔.艾尔摩塔创作的《岁月静如玻璃，年华砥砺于铁》获得了最佳短篇小说奖。
The Expanse: "Leviathan Wakes", written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, was awarded the Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form. It won over the best seller Game of Thrones, a series that had two books in the six-finalist shortlist.
马克.费格思和霍克.奥斯特比创作的《浩瀚苍穹》：利维坦觉醒获得了最佳影视短片奖。这部作品胜过了《权利的游戏》，而后者在评选最后一轮有2本小说入围。
A total of 3,319 voters made their selection from the final ballot, the third-highest number in the history of the award.
在最后一次投票中，共有3319人做出了选择，是该奖项历史上人数第三多的一次。
First presented in 1953, the Hugo Award is considered the highest honor for sci-fi works along with the Nebula Awards. It has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records to be the oldest sci-fi award in the world.
雨果奖第一次颁发是在1953年，连同星云奖被认为是科幻界最高奖项。吉尼斯世界纪录还认定雨果奖是全世界历史最久的科幻小说奖。
Chinese writer Liu Cixin, who was the first Asian writer to win the award, is nominated again this year for Death’s End, a third novel in his trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past.
中国作家刘慈欣是第一个获得雨果奖的亚洲作家，今年他凭借自己的“三体”系列第三部小说《死神永生》也获得了提名。
Liu previously won the Best Novel award in 2015 for the first book in trilogy, The Three-Body Problem, while Hao Jingfang, another Chinese writer, won the Best Novelette award last year for her book Folding Beijing.
2015年，刘慈欣曾凭借该系列第一部小说《三体问题》获得了当年的雨果奖，而去年另一位中国作家郝景芳凭借作品《北京折叠》获得了2016年最佳中短篇小说奖。
来源:中新网
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