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!
2 comments:
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.)
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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