# Award-winning South African author Imraan Coovadia’s short story, Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic, has been shortlisted for the International Science Fiction Literary Awards. It has been shortlisted in the Foreign Language category. The story is inspired by psychological consequences suffered by people in Nairobi, Kenya, and Johannesburg, who had been hired to screen and classify disturbing content on Facebook. Coovadia is among 27 authors who have been shortlisted from more than two-thousand-400 submissions received globally. The award ceremony will be held in Russia on November 6th.
SA author shortlisted for the International Science Fiction Literary awards