Nobelpristagaren i litteratur Derek Walcott har avlidit 87 år gammal:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/books/derek-walcott-dead-nobel-prize-literature.html
Dennis Etchison and Thomas F. Monteleone will be awarded Lifetime Achievement
Awards by the Horror Writers Association (HWA).
The Lifetime Achievement Award is given annually to “individuals whose work
has substantially influenced the horror and dark fantasy genres.” The awards
will be presented during StokerCon 2017, held aboard the Queen Mary in Long
Beach CA, April 27-30, 2017. For more information, see the HWA website.
Paul Weimer has won the Down Under Fan Fund (DUFF).
The 2017 fund is intended to send fans from North America to attend Continuum
13, the 56th Australian National Science Fiction Convention, to be held at the
Jasper Hotel in Melbourne on June 9-12, 2017.
Anna-Marie McLemore’s novel When the Moon Was Ours (Dunne) won the 2016 James
Tiptree, Jr. Award, given annually to works of science fiction or fantasy that
explore and expand gender roles. McLemore will receive $1,000, original artwork
created to honor the novel, and chocolate. McLemore will be honored at a
ceremony during WisCon, May 26-29, 2017 in Madison WI.
Winners of the 2017 Prix Bob Morane have been announced.
Romans francophones (French Novels)
Manhattan Marilyn, Philippe Laguerre (Éditions Critic)
Romans traduits (Translated Novels)
Les enfermés [Lock In], John Scalzi, translated by Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante)
Nouvelles (Short Stories)
l sera une fois, Southeast Jones (Éditions Séma)
Coup de coeur (Favorites)
’exégèse de Philip K. Dick (J’ai Lu)
The Bob Morane Award literary prize was created in 1999 by Marc Bailly and is
awarded by a jury of French-speaking writers, journalists, critics, and
collections directors. The award is named after the fictional adventurer
created by Belgian writer Henri Vernes.
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