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Rhetorics of Fantasy, by Farah Mendlesohn, won the 2009 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award in the category of Nonfiction, and is a finalist for both the 2009 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in the category of Myth and Fantasy Studies and the 2009 Hugo Award in the category of Best Related Book.

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the 2009 Northern California Independent Booksellers Award in the poetry category.

The 2008 Award for Best Research (History) in Folk, Ethnic, or World Music, given by the Association of Recorded Sound Collections, was awarded to Wesleyan University Press for the publication of Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae by Michael Veal.

The Modern Language Association of America today announced that it will award its eighth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work to Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush for their translation of Victor Segalen's Steles. The selection committee's citation reads: Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush's translation of Steles (together with Volume 2, available online) is a major accomplishment in both its translation and its scholarship. The translation is a superb rendering of the mood and intention of the original French: precise, lyrical, and contemplative. It successfully preserves the subtlety of the French and its complexly suggestive relation to Chinese sources. Equally impressive are the translators' erudite documentation of the sources that went into this fascinating case of East-West hybridity and the theoretical sophistication of the introduction. The combination of scholarship and literary sensitivity is a marvelous achievement.

Tomie Hahn's book Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance was the 2008 recipient of the Society of Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam Prize, which recognizes the most distinguished, published English-language monograph in the field of ethnomusicology.

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