Well, you'd have to ask C.E. -- I invite you to do so -- but I suspect that the argument goes like this:
1. Written fiction Hugo Awards apply to the work, not the person.
2. Therefore, labeling a novel that won a Hugo Award as "Hugo Award Winner" is appropriate, but...
3. The author of that novel didn't win a Hugo Award -- the novel did.
4. Therefore, labeling another work by that same author as "Hugo Award Winner" (meaning "Hugo Award Winning Author") is misleading and inappropriate.
I suppose the even greater crime might be to throw "Hugo Award Winner" on the cover of a work when none of the author's past novels have won Hugos, but the author has won a Hugo in another category. For example, Dave Langford has won in four different categories (fan writer, fanzine, semiprozine, and best short story). He has the largest collection of Hugo Awards on the planet. If he wrote a novel -- he has written several -- and the publisher chose to do so, putting "Hugo Award Winner" on the cover would be descriptive of the author, but not the book itself.
See the distinction? Personally, I think it's hair-splitting. If a publisher claimed a Hugo on a work where neither the work nor the author had won the Award, then the MPC would get active, but otherwise, I don't see it as a problem.
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Date: 2007-10-01 07:07 pm (UTC)1. Written fiction Hugo Awards apply to the work, not the person.
2. Therefore, labeling a novel that won a Hugo Award as "Hugo Award Winner" is appropriate, but...
3. The author of that novel didn't win a Hugo Award -- the novel did.
4. Therefore, labeling another work by that same author as "Hugo Award Winner" (meaning "Hugo Award Winning Author") is misleading and inappropriate.
I suppose the even greater crime might be to throw "Hugo Award Winner" on the cover of a work when none of the author's past novels have won Hugos, but the author has won a Hugo in another category. For example, Dave Langford has won in four different categories (fan writer, fanzine, semiprozine, and best short story). He has the largest collection of Hugo Awards on the planet. If he wrote a novel -- he has written several -- and the publisher chose to do so, putting "Hugo Award Winner" on the cover would be descriptive of the author, but not the book itself.
See the distinction? Personally, I think it's hair-splitting. If a publisher claimed a Hugo on a work where neither the work nor the author had won the Award, then the MPC would get active, but otherwise, I don't see it as a problem.