Author: Mihaela Marija Perkovic

Mihaela Marija Perkovic was GUFF laureate 2013 and European GUFF Adminstrator 2013-2018. She is an author, and many more things, most of which you can find in the header of this blog. She runs a boutique business focused on writing in Croatia and SF cons and writing workshops all over the world.

New Zealand

You say New Zealand, most people think The Lord of the Rings. I think a special shade of green, horizontal rain, icy wind, breathtaking views, very scary weta, bilingual sings, kids in short sleeves and short pants when I – who am always so hot and under-dressed at home doctors have been sending me to […]

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Bosnian Genre Author Adnadin Jašarevic Wins Little Prince Regional Award

Every writer in the former Yugoslavia used to be eligible for the SFERA Award. So there are, among the early winners, some Slovenian and Serbian genre writers. Today, SFERA is a national award (and no longer the only one!). I think almost all the other literary awards in ex-Yu have been either ceased or transmuted […]

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Women in Fandom 0.1

Every time some new (or old) misogyny-related scandal shakes up the anglophone science fiction community, I stand on the sidelines, quietly watching the internets explode and wonder how this can be. Thing is, I probably live, day in, day out, in a far more misogynistic society than members of anglophone SF fandom do. And yet, […]

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LIburnicon GUFF aukcija

Zanima vas kako pišu australski pisci? Kako izgleda bilten Worlcona? Kakvog je okusa australska cokolada? Kako do dobre knjige za par kuna? Pripremite sitan novac i do?ite u subotu, 30. kolovoza, u 22:30 na GUFF aukciju na Liburniconu (Lavanda 3).

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Croatia wins two ESFS Awards

Last Sunday at the 36th Eurocon, Shamrokon, in Dublin, the European Science Fiction Society announced the recipients of the 2014 ESFS Awards. It has taken me a while to blog about it – doing two cons in a week and a half with a husband and a four-year-old in tow and working half-time does not […]

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