Vina Jie-Min Prasad (维娜·杰敏·普拉萨德) is a
Singaporean writer of
science fiction and
fantasy.
She is a three-time finalist for both the
Nebula Award
The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of profe ...
and the
Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier a ...
, and has also been a finalist for other speculative fiction awards. She is currently based in Oxford.
[Prasad, Vina Jie-Min.]
Vina Jie-Min Prasad: About
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Writing career
Prasad has been active in speculative fiction since 2016.
[Prasad, Vina Jie-Min.]
Vina Jie-Min Prasad: Writing
" She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
Recognition
Prasad's short stories "
Fandom for Robots" and "
A Series of Steaks", both published in 2017, were nominated for the
Nebula Award
The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of profe ...
, the
Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier a ...
and the
Theodore Sturgeon Award. Her short story "
A Guide for Working Breeds" was a finalist for the
Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 2020,
[SFWA Announces the 56th Annual Nebula Award Finalists]
. SFWA. Retrieved 2021-03-19. and for the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
She was a finalist for the 2018
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and came second.
Hugo Awards 2018: Detailed Results
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Bibliography
Short fiction
*"Different Ways to Burn" (''HEAT: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology'', Apr. 2016)
Interviews
*"Interview: Vina Jie-Min Prasad" (''Uncanny Magazine'' 21, Mar./Apr. 2018) (Caroline M. Yoachim
Caroline Mariko Yoachim is an author of speculative fiction who writes as Caroline M. Yoachim and Caroline Yoachim.Yoachim, Caroline M.Penguins, Robins, and Science Fiction. Essay in ''Lightspeed: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special ...
)
References
External links
Author website
Includes story links.
A Series of Steaks online textFandom for Robots online textVina Jie-Min Prasad Nebula nominations
at SFWA. Includes author photo.
Living people
21st-century Singaporean women writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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