Science Fiction Awards Watch

Any information regarding the process and background for this award is appreciated.  The following was provided by the WorldSF Blog.  The website for the award (in Romanian) can be found here.  (Thanks to Concatenation for the heads-up.) The Best Volume: “The Seasons” (Anotimpurile) by Bogdan-Tudor Bucheru (Millennium Books) “Ink and Blood” (Cerneal? ?i singe) by ?tefana [...]

Liviu Radu wins Galileo Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award! The winners of the Romanian Galileo Awards 2012 (Premiile Galileo), voted by the subscribers of Galileo Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, were announced on Sunday. Here’s the list of the winners: Best F&SF Book Award (novel or short fiction collection published by a Romanian author in 2011): [...]

We’ve received the following words regarding the Romanian Galileo Awards from Horia Nicola Ursu: The subscribers of Romania’s only  printed F&SF magazine, Galileo Science Fiction & Fantasy, have started voting for their favourites in the competition for the 2012 Galileo Awards (established last year). The nominees are: Best F&SF Book (Novel or Story Collection): Bogdan-Tudor [...]

The winners of the 2011 Galileo Awards were announced at the Romanian National Book Fair at the weekend. They are as follows: Book: …si la sfîrsit a mai ramas cosmarul (…and at the end remained the nightmare), Oliviu Crâznic (Vremea) Short Fiction: “Îngeri si molii” (“Angels and Moths”), Costi Gurgu (Galileo 2) Lifetime Achievement: George [...]

The finalists for this year’s Galileo Awards have been announced. The full lists are available (in Romanian) here. English translations of the titles are available in a comment on our long list post (thanks Bear!). Our apologies for the inability of this blog to handle all of the accented characters. The winners will be announced [...]

Here’s a new set of national awards for you. Galileo Magazine is a new (2010) publication featuring science fiction and fantasy written in Romanian. Now they have awards, and the long list for their first year have been published in an English language blog run by Mihai (Dark Wolf). You can see the full list [...]