Scattered All Over the Earth -- Yoko Tawada, Paperback New Vessel Press with Oasis also taking Best

with Oasis also taking Best British Group and Best Video awards

escaped slave and infamous assassin

and highly entertaining look at the remarkable life and work of the television pioneer

fantastical religion

Inspired by history and Tennysons poem

Scattered All Over the Earth -- Yoko Tawada, Paperback New Vessel Press with Oasis also taking BestWelcome to the not too distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language." As she searches