Probably not workable

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Seiun has a Best Foreign Novel category. Two questions:

1: if the Hugo Award had something analogous, what would it be?

2: If it existed, what would you have nominated for it?

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was looking at the WSFS constitution and there seemed to me to be an assumption that nominated works would be published in the USA.

[timill]

There's also an assumption that worthy works will be ignored by idiot monoglot American voters:

3.2.2: A work originally appearing in a language other than English shall also be eligible for the year in which it is first issued in English translation.
3.2.3: The Business Meeting may by a 3/4 vote provide that works originally published outside the United States of America and first published in the United States of America in the current year shall also be eligible for Hugo Awards given in the following year.

[disclaimer: I wrote Section 3.2.3]