Hugo Award for Best Novelette
| Hugo Award for Best Novelette | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | The best science fiction or fantasy story of between 7,500 and 17,500 words published in the prior calendar year |
| Presented by | World Science Fiction Society |
| First award | 1955 |
| Most recent winner | Naomi Kritzer ("The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea") |
| Website | thehugoawards.org |
The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novelette award is available for works of fiction of between 7,500 and 17,500 words; awards are also given out in the short story, novella and novel categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".[1][2]
The Hugo Award for Best Novelette was first awarded in 1955, and was subsequently awarded in 1956 and 1959, lapsing in 1960.[Note 1] The category was reinstated for 1967 through 1969, before lapsing again in 1970; after returning in 1973, it has remained to date. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, between 1996 and 2025 Retrospective Hugo Awards or "Retro-Hugos" were available for works published 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos could only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given.[3] Retro-Hugos were given for novelettes for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.[4]
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the award presentation constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six finalists, except in the case of a tie. The novelettes on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of stories that can be nominated.[3] Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six finalists is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.[5] Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations.[6] Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year.[7][8]
During the 68 nomination years, 219 authors have had works as finalists; 52 of these have won, including coauthors and Retro Hugos. Three translators have been noted along with the author of a novelette written in a language other than English: Lia Belt for a translation from Dutch in 2015, Ken Liu for a translation from Chinese in 2016, and Emily Jen for a translation from Chinese in 2024. Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, and Harlan Ellison each have received the most Hugos for Best Novelette at three, with Ellison having been a finalist a total of six times, while seven other authors have won twice. Mike Resnick has had the most final ballot nominations at eight, and Ursula K. Le Guin and Greg Egan have been nominated seven times each. Sixteen other authors have been nominated at least four times, while Egan has the most nominations without winning.
Winners and finalists
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novelette was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a grey background are the finalists on the short-list. If the novelette was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the publisher's name is included after the book title.
* Winners and joint winners
Retro Hugos
Between the 1996 Worldcon and 2025 Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Society had the concept of "Retro-Hugos", in which the Hugo award could be retroactively awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior.[3][69] Retro-Hugos could only be awarded for years after 1939 (the year of the first Worldcon) in which no Hugos were originally awarded.[3] Retro-Hugos were awarded eight times, for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954.[4]
See also
- Nebula Award for Best Novelette
- List of joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards
Notes
- ^ In the 1958 awards, a category was called "Best Novel or Novelette", with the winner as the novel The Big Time. No novella category was presented that year.
- ^ a b c d Thomas Olde Heuvelt's 2015 winner "The Day the World Turned Upside Down" and Hao Jingfang's 2016 winner "Folding Beijing" are the only translated works to win the "Best Novelette" Hugo. Hugos were awarded to both the author and the translator.
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External links
- Hugo Award official site Archived 2021-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
- List of Hugo Award nominees in Locus magazine

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