Monday, December 16, 2013

2013 RomCon Awards & 2013 Ignotus Awards

Last week-end, at Iași, a new edition of the RomCon, the Romanian National Fantasy & Science Fiction Literature and Arts Convention, took place. On this occasion, a jury formed by Mircea Opriţă (president), Cătălin Badea-Gheracostea, George Ceaușu, Mircea Liviu Goga and Lucian Vasile Szabo awarded the 2013 RomCon Awards:

NOVEL: “Citadela de fier” (The Iron Citadel) by Adrian Buzdugan (Tracus Arte)

COLLECTION: “A doua venire” (The Second Coming) by Marian Truţă (Nemira)

DEBUT: “Taxidermie” (Taxidermy) by Narcisa Stoica (Millennium Books) – reviewed here

VISUAL ART: Adrian Chifu

PUBLICATION: Helion

PUBLISHER: Millennium Books

SPECIAL AWARDS: Orizont (Horizon) magazine & Ştefan Ghidoveanu for his blog, SF Crone

Congratulations to all the winners!

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On 14th and 15th of December in Quart de Poblet (Valencia) in a ceremony held at the 31st edition of HispaCon, the National Fantasy and Science Fiction Convention organized by AEFCFT (The Spanish Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Association), the winners of 2013 Ignotus Awards have been announced:

NOVEL: “El mapa del cielo” (The Map of the Sky) by Felix J. Palma (Plaza & Janés)

NOVELLA: “Ostfront” (Ostfront) by Eduardo Vaquerizo, José Ramón Vázquez y Santiago Eximeno (Ediciones del cruciforme)

SHORT STORY: “Neo Tokio Blues” (Neo Tokyo Blues) by José Ramón Vázquez (Prospectivas. Antología del cuento de ciencia ficción española actual)

ANTHOLOGY: “Terra Nova. Antología de ciencia ficción contemporánea” (Terra Nova. Anthology of Modern Science Fiction) edited by Mariano Villarreal and Luis Pestarini (Sportula)

NON-FICTION: “La ciencia ficción de Isaac Asimov” (The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov) by Rodolfo Martínez (Sportula)

ARTICLE: “Ciencia-Ficción en español” (Science Fiction in Spanish) by Fernando Angel Moreno (Prospectivas)

ILLUSTRATION: The cover of “Terra Nova” made by Ángel Benito Gastañaga (Sportula)

AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL: “Los Verdhugos” (The Verdhugos) by Miquel Codony, Elías Combarro, Josep María Oriol y Pedro Román (Podcast)

COMIC BOOKS: “Espinas” (Thorns) by Santiago Eximeno y Angel Manuel Sánchez Crespo (The End 2012)

POETRY: “Quiero comerme tu máscara de gas” (I want to eat your gas mask) by Santiago Eximeno (Groenlandia 14)

MAGAZINE: “Delirio” (Biblioteca del Laberinto)

TRANSLATED NOVEL: “La ciudad y la ciudad” (The City & The City) by China Miéville (La Factoría de Ideas)

TRANSLATED SHORT STORY: “El zoo de papel” (The Paper Menagerie) by Ken Liu (Terra Nova)

WEB: “La Tercera Fundación” (Asociación “Los Conseguidores”) (tercerafundacion.net)

Congratulations to all the winners!

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting this info! Are any of the Romanian titles available in English? I'd be interested in checking them out.
    (Sorry if this is clear in your post and I somehow missed it.)

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  2. None on this list are available in English yet. But there are a few others:
    Marian Coman's "Fingers and other fantastic stories" (http://www.amazon.com/Fingers-other-fantastic-stories-Marian-ebook/dp/B005GQW132/ref=la_B005HU80G4_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387451114&sr=1-2

    Dan Dobos's "The Abbey" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Abbey-Dan-Dobos/dp/0982432984/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1387450802&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=dan+dobos)

    Leon Wahl's "The Male Papers" (http://www.amazon.com/Male-Papers-Leon-Wahl-ebook/dp/B009DS2TB8/ref=la_B009HL2EZM_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387451182&sr=1-1)

    George Lazar's "The Guardian Angel" (http://www.amazon.com/Guardian-Angel-George-Lazar/dp/6068315207/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387451223&sr=1-12)

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