Bogi Takács

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Bogi Takács
Born (1983-12-25) December 25, 1983 (age 37)
Győr, Hungary
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, poetry
SpouseR.B. Lemberg
Website
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Bogi Takács (born 25 December 1983)[1] is a Hungarian poet, writer, psycholinguist, editor, and translator. Takács is an intersex,[2] agender trans Jewish writer who has written Torah-inspired Jewish-themed work, and uses e/em/eir/emself or they/them pronouns.

Career[]

Takács, who is disabled, has worked with a number of other writers on projects such as Disabled People Destroy.[3] E has been published in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Publishers Weekly and Apex.[4][5][6][7] E completed an undergraduate degree, two master's degrees, an MSc in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and an MA in Theoretical Linguistics, all from ELTE University of Budapest. E moved to the United States to complete further post-graduate work at the University of Iowa.[8][9][10]

Personal life[]

Takács currently resides in the United States.[11] E is autistic,[12] and so is eir child.[13]

Awards and nominations[]

Bibliography[]

Editor[]

  • Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2017 (Lethe Press)
  • Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016 (Lethe Press)

Short story collection[]

  • The Trans Space Octopus Congregation (Lethe Press, 2019)

Novelettes[]

  • "Three Partitions" (first published in GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Ann Leckie, 2014)
  • "Standing on the Floodbanks" (first published in GigaNotoSaurus edited by Rashida J. Smith, 2016)
  • "Empathic Mirroring" (part 1 of The Song of Spores serial, first published in Eyedolon edited by Scott Gable, published by Broken Eye Books, 2018)
  • "Defend Hearth Position" (part 2 of The Song of Spores serial, first published in Eyedolon #2, edited by Scott Gable, published by Broken Eye Books, 2018)
  • "The Souls of Those Gone Astray from the Path" (first published Dracula: Rise of the Beast edited by David Thomas Moore, published by Abbadon Books, 2018)

References[]

  1. ^ "Summary Bibliography: Bogi Takács". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Why "women + nonbinary" is not a good idea | Bogi Reads the World". Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  3. ^ "A Sci-Fi Magazine Created Entirely By Writers And Editors With Disabilities". 23 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Bogi Takács". 28 April 2014.
  5. ^ Adrian Tchaikovsky; Caren Gussoff Sumption; Bogi Takács; Milena Benini; Emil Minchev (13 March 2018). Dracula: Rise of the Beast. Abaddon Books. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-1-78618-101-5.
  6. ^ Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017. Uncanny Magazine. 7 March 2017. pp. 168–.
  7. ^ Steven J. Dick (26 October 2015). The Impact of Discovering Life beyond Earth. Cambridge University Press. pp. 392–. ISBN 978-1-316-42530-5.
  8. ^ "Author Spotlight". 8 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Bogi Perelmutter". Bogi.perelmutter.net. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  10. ^ "Student Biographies". University of Iowa. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  11. ^ "Bogi Takács". Uncanny Magazine. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  12. ^ Takács, Bogi [@bogiperson] (11 November 2020). "Now, I have a stake in this as an autistic person... I am sure *I* annoyed my sibling at times :) but surely this is not my *defining feature*, or HIS defining feature either!" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 May 2021 – via Twitter.
  13. ^ Takács, Bogi [@bogiperson] (11 November 2020). "At this point, this is so bad that I CANNOT give my likewise autistic kid a book with an autistic protagonist just like that. Because chances are good that it will be about how the autistic kid is annoying, and difficult to have as a sibling / family member. & Ownvoices is rare" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 May 2021 – via Twitter.
  14. ^ "The 2018 Locus Awards Highlight The Broad Range Of Science Fiction And Fantasy". Forbes. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  15. ^ "Press release: Worldcon 76 announces 2018 Hugo Award finalists". Worldcon 76. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  16. ^ Cheryl (2 April 2019). "2019 Hugo Award & 1944 Retro Hugo Award Finalists". The Hugo Awards. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  17. ^ "2020 Hugo Awards Announced". The Hugo Awards. 31 July 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.

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