The 2013 SF & F Translation Awards (for works published in 2012) were announced this weekend at Liburnicon 2013 in Opatija, Croatia.

The Long Form winner was Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City by Kai-cheung Dung, translated from the Chinese by Anders Hansson, Bonnie S. McDougall, and the author (Columbia University Press)

The Short Form winner was "Augusta Prima" by Karin Tidbeck translated from the Swedish by the author (Jagannath: Stories, Cheeky Frawg).

See the announcement on the SFFT Awards site for the honorable mentions and additional details. Cheryl announced the awards at the Croatian convention. Both the winners and the translators receive a plaque and a cash prize of $350 each.

I had intended to get a lot more done today than I actually accomplished. I did get a couple of boxes of old clothes — serviceable, but I'm gained too much weight to fit into the two old suits, for instance — down to Goodwill, and for the first time I'm properly tracking such donations. (Donations of goods have to be tracked differently than cash donations. I got a receipt and recorded the donations using It's Deductible. I might possibly be able to use the tax deductions next year, I can't wear them anymore, and it's that much less stuff I have to move when the lease here ends. Some of the shirts I donated were convention T-shirts. I wonder what Goodwill will make of them.

And speaking of charities, I got by the bank and deposited a donation to the SF & F Translation Awards that came by way of the Bank of Morgan-Standlee rather than through PayPal. That, as well as a tiny bit of grocery shopping and getting the van refueled, was the extent of my day. I got very sleepy about 4 PM, fell into bed, and slept for five hours. I expect to fall back into bed pretty soon now, too.

I don't remember announcing this earlier, but the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards parent non-profit corporation (of which I am Secretary-Treasurer and thus responsible for all of the filing paperwork) has been granted 501(c)(3) tax-exempt recognition by the IRS. That means that for anyone paying US taxes, donations to fund the awards should be tax-deductible.

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