BSFA Award Shortlist: “The Unknown Painter”

“The Unknown Painter” by Henry Lion Oldie (and translated by me) is a BSFA Award finalist in the newly-added category of Best Translated Short Fiction. The award ceremony will take place in Telford, UK over the Easter weekend.

Huge congratulations to Dmytro Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky who collectively write under the nom de plume of Henry Lion Oldie. I am pretty sure theirs is the first Ukrainian short story to be nominated for a major English language award, and possibly the first such story translated from the Russian language overall.

Also, major kudos to BSFA for introducing the translated fiction category. It is long overdue. I hope Hugo, Nebula, and Locus administrators will take notice.

You can read “The Uknown Painter” free at the link above, but also consider buying The Digital Aesthete anthology which includes this and many other fabulous stories.

2 Responses to BSFA Award Shortlist: “The Unknown Painter”

  1. John Baumgartner says:

    Hi Alex, I bought an copy of ‘The Digital Aesthete’ in your response to the low number of reviews on Amazon relative to the number of copies sold. You can find the latest review on Amazon – thanks for the fun read.

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