“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.
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