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Thoraiya Dyer
Thoraiya Dyer is an Australian writer of fantasy, speculative and science fiction. , she has won five Aurealis Awards and four Ditmar Awards, each of the latter in different categories. Career Dyer trained and worked as a veterinarian before publishing her first fantasy short stories in 2008. Her work has appeared in ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'', ''Apex Magazine'', '' Clarkesworld Magazine'', '' Cosmos'' and ''Redstone Science Fiction'' and well as a number of anthologies. Dyer was joint winner of the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story for "Yowie", winning that award again in 2011 for "Fruit of the Pipal Tree" and in 2016 for "Where the Pelican Builds Her Next". In 2012 she won the Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story for "The Wisdom of the Ants", which also won the Ditmar Best Short Story in 2013. She was awarded the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story in 2014 for "Wine, Women, and Stars". She won the Ditmar Award for Best New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurealis Award
The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by '' Chimaera Publications'', the publishers of ''Aurealis Magazine''. Unlike the other major Australian speculative fiction award, the Ditmar Award, it divides work into subgenre and age categories, and is judged as such. The award was originally given out in the following divisions: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult. Two separate awards are given in each of those divisions, one for novels and one for short stories. A fifth division for Children's books was added in 2001 for fiction for 8-12 year olds, with separate awards for "Short Fiction" and "Long Fiction". With the 2008 Awards the "Short Fiction" children's fiction category became a category for "Illustrated Work/Picture Book". For the 2010 Awards, the two categories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Science Fiction Writers
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21st-century Australian Women Writers
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
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Living People
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Kirkus Reviews
''Kirkus Reviews'' (or ''Kirkus Media'') is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980). The magazine is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. ''Kirkus Reviews'', published on the first and 15th of each month; previews books before their publication. ''Kirkus'' reviews over 10,000 titles per year. History Virginia Kirkus was hired by Harper & Brothers to establish a children's book department in 1926. The department was eliminated as an economic measure in 1932 (for about a year), so Kirkus left and soon established her own book review service. Initially, she arranged to get galley proofs of "20 or so" books in advance of their publication; almost 80 years later, the service was receiving hundreds of books weekly and reviewing about 100. Initially titled ''Bulletin'' by Kirkus' Bookshop Service from 1933 to 1954, the title was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ditmar Award Results
The Ditmar Award is Australia's oldest and best-known science fiction, fantasy and horror award, presented annually since 1969, usually at the Australian "Natcon". The historical nominations and results (listed in boldface) of the Award follow. 1969: Eighth Australian Science Fiction Convention, Melbourne Best Australian Science Fiction of any length, or collection * ''Pacific Book Of Australian SF'', John Baxter * ''False Fatherland'', A. Bertram Chandler * "Final Flower", Stephen Cook Best International Science Fiction of any length, or collection * ''An Age'', Brian Aldiss * ''Camp Concentration'', Thomas M. Disch * ''The Ring of Ritornel'', Charles Harness Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction * Brian Aldiss * R.A. Lafferty * Samuel R. Delany * Roger Zelazny Best Australian Amateur Science Fiction Publication or Fanzine * ''Australian Science Fiction Review'', John Bangsund * ''The Mentor'', Ronald L Clarke * ''Rataplan'', Leigh Edmonds 1970: Ninth Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurealis Award For Best Young Adult Short Story
The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers". To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 January and 31 December of the corresponding year; the presentation ceremony is held the following year. It has grown from a small function of around 20 people to a two-day event attended by over 200 people. Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of speculative fiction. Categories currently include science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative young adult fiction—with separate awards for novels and short fiction—collections, anthologies, illustrative works or graphic novels, children's books, and an award for excellence in speculative fiction. The awards have attracted the attention of publishers by setting down a benchm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ditmar Award
The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction (including fantasy and horror) and science fiction fandom. The award is similar to the Hugo Award but on a national rather than international scale. They are named for Martin James Ditmar "Dick" Jenssen, an Australian fan and artist, who financially supported the awards at their inception. The current rules for the award (which had for many years been specified only in the minimalist "Jack Herman constitution") were developed in 2000 and 2001 as a result of controversy resulting from the withdrawal of the works of several prominent writers from eligibility, and the rules are subject to revision by the "Business Meeting" of the Natcon. Process Award-eligible works and persons are first nominated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redstone Science Fiction
''Redstone Science Fiction'' was an online science fiction magazine. The first issue was published June 1, 2010 and maintained a regular monthly schedule until the September 1, 2012 issue. ''Redstone Science Fiction'' (often called ''Redstone SF'') has published fiction by Cory Doctorow, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken MacLeod, Cat Rambo, Hannu Rajaniemi, Vylar Kaftan, Lavie Tidhar, and others. The magazine has conducted interviews with many editors and authors in the science fiction field, including Lou Anders, John Joseph Adams, Mary Robinette Kowal, Vylar Kaftan, Cat Rambo, Lavie Tidhar, and others. ''Redstone SF'' has also published essays on science fiction literary criticism and the writing craft. The magazine initiated a writing contest in June 2010 to draw attention to issues of disability in science fiction. Staff * Michael Ray, Co-Publisher, Editor * Paul Clemmons, Publisher, Co-Editor *Cassondra Link, Assistant Editor *Ferlie, Assistant Editor *Mary Ann Locke, Assistant Edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
