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)
Congratulations to all the winners!
Thanks for posting this info! Are any of the Romanian titles available in English? I'd be interested in checking them out.
ReplyDelete(Sorry if this is clear in your post and I somehow missed it.)
None on this list are available in English yet. But there are a few others:
ReplyDeleteMarian 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)