Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — The accolades keep coming for Samoan author Lani Wendt Young whose book 'Fire's Caress' has won the 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel.
Announced at a ceremony in Wellington, NZ on Saturday night, the SJV awards are administered by the Science Fiction and...

![Lani Wendt Young called winning the Vogel award "a lovely surprise" and the cause of much "shouting and choo-hoo's here at our place at Lotopa." She thanked SFFANZ for the honor, and her publisher who nominated 'Fire's Caress' for the award. [courtesy photo] Lani Wendt Young](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/lani.jpg?itok=s98e2Fp8)