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The winners of the 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards were announced on Sunday, July 14th at Readercon 24, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Readercon 24 Guest of Honor Maureen McHugh acted as host. The Shirely Jackson Awards are named in honour of the American author most famous for 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill […]
Read More Winners of 2012 Shirley Jackson AwardsThere is a club in Zagreb, Booksa, founded almost ten years ago, where the chairs are old, the staff are young and the owners amazing. Mika and Vanja, two women who felt, like so many others in Zagreb, that the local literary scene lacked something, a space which would combine bookstore, coffeshop and stage for […]
Read More “Widening Rings” at BooksaThe Association for the Recognition of Excellence in SF & F Translation (ARESFFT), is a California Non-Profit Corporation funded entirely by donations, announced the 2013 finalists for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards (for works published in 2012) at Finncon, held in Helsinki last weekend. I am very proud Croatian fan, writer and translator […]
Read More 2013 SF&F Translation Awards Short Lists Announced at FinnconBefore I had a child I never felt overwhelmed by the number of books on my to read list. These days that list just keep getting longer and longer, while the number of books I read a week has sadly depleted. Yes, the trip to Australia helped. (I positively gorged!) But still. This was all […]
Read More Locus Awards 2013As I’ve mentioned, ever since I got back from my GUFF trip to Australia and New Zealand, a part of my brain has been thinking about all the possible destinations I will be trying to get Australian and NZ GUFF delegates to visit. Predictably, Croatia is first on my list. Not only because I know […]
Read More Fantastic Zagreb 2013