Science Fiction Awards Watch

Geffen Award Winners

October 19th, 2008 by

News just in from Israel. The Geffen Award winners for 2008 are as follows:

  • Best Translated SF Book: I Am Legend, Richard Matheson (Translator: Yael Inbar; Publisher: Yanshuf Publishing)
  • Best Translated Fantasy Book: The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett (Translator: Jonathan Bar; Publisher: East of Eden)
  • Best Translated SF or Fantasy YA Book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling (Translator: Gili Bar-Hillel Semo; Publisher: Yediot Acharonoth Books)
  • Best Original SF or Fantasy Story: “Bamakom Bo Meabdim Sfarim” (“Where Books are Lost”), Lili Daie (Bli Panika web magazine)
  • Best Original SF or Fantasy Book: Hagar Yanai (The Water Between the Worlds) (Publisher: Keter Books)
  • Best Translation: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling (Translator: Gili Bar-Hillel Semo; Publisher: Yediot Acharonoth Books)

Our thanks to Ehud Maimon for the information.

Update: Corrections made as per Gili’s and Lili’s comments below, and in private email.

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2 Responses to “Geffen Award Winners”

  1. on 19 Oct 2008 at 9:03 am1 Gili

    Thanks for noting this, if you could please correct the spelling of my last name: Semo, not Samo. Also, just The Wee Free Men, not The Illustrated.

  2. on 20 Oct 2008 at 8:38 am2 Lili

    Oh! This is so very, very cool!
    If I can be awful about the details just for a sec, though, it’s “Where Books are Lost”, and my last name is “Daie”. There, now I’m back to being ecstatic about how amazingly cool this is. :)