PEN America announced the winners of its Literary Awards including the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, which went to Ursula K. Le Guin for No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and was accepted on her behalf by her son Theo Downes-Le Guin. The award includes a $10,000 prize.

Winners were honored at the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on February 20, 2018 at the NYU Skirball Center in New York City. PEN America “stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide.” The awards “confer nearly $315,000 to writers and translators whose exceptional literary works were published in 2017.”

http://locusmag.com/2018/

В США 22 января 2018 на 89-м году жизни скончалась знаменитая писательница Урсула Крёбер Ле Гуин.

Автор романов в жанрах фэнтези и научной фантастики умерла в понедельник в своем доме в Портланде, штат Орегон, после продолжительной болезни, сообщил ее сын. Continue reading →

Winners of the 2017 Goodreads Choice awards for the “best books of 2017” as chosen by users of the site, were announced December 5, 2017. There are several winners of genre interest:

Continue reading →

Science Fiction World magazine and Storycom held the 28th 银河奖 Yinhe (Galaxy) Awards November 11, 2017 in Chengdu, China. This year’s winners include:

Best Novel

The Heart of Galaxy III: Chasing Shadow and Light, Jiang Bo

Best Novella

Shining, Chen Zijun

Electricity Soul, Quanru Xiaojie

Best Short Story

“Life”, He Xi

“Iron Moon”, Xia Jia

“Möbius Continuum”, Gu Shi

Continue reading →

Африканские писатели-фантасты объединились для развития и продвижения африканской фантастики. Они создали ASFS (African Speculative Fiction Society)

И в этом году уже объявлены лауреаты премии NOMMO :

Continue reading →