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Bogi Takács
Born (1983-12-25) December 25, 1983 (age 40)
Győr, Hungary
Occupation
  • Author
  • Linguist
Education
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, poetry
Notable awards
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] E completed eir Ph.D at the University of Kansas in 2022.

Personal life

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

Projects

Takács writes a blog titled "Bogi Reads the World" dedicated to reviewing speculative fiction by marginalized authors. The site was launched in October of 2016 and was most recently updated in January of 2022.

Awards and nominations

Selected bibliography

Editor

  • Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2018 (Lethe Press, 2019)
  • Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2017 (Lethe Press, 2018)
  • Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016 (Lethe Press, 2017)
  • Inkscrawl (2015-2016)
  • Stone Telling Magazine (2015) with R. B. Lemberg and Shweta Narayan

Novellas

Novelettes

  • "The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade" (first published in Rebuilding Tomorrow edited by Tsana Dolichva, published by Twelfth Planet Press, 2020)
  • "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 in Dracula: Rise of the Beast edited by David Thomas Moore, published by Abaddon Books, 2018)
  • "Standing on the Floodbanks" (first published in GigaNotoSaurus edited by Rashida J. Smith, 2016)
  • "Three Partitions" (first published in GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Ann Leckie, 2014)

Short story collection

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

Poetry collection

References

  1. ^ "Summary Bibliography: Bogi Takács". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. 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. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. 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. ^ locusmag (30 April 2018). "2018 Locus Awards Finalists". Locus Online. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  16. ^ "Press release: Worldcon 76 announces 2018 Hugo Award finalists". Worldcon 76. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  17. ^ Cheryl (2 April 2019). "2019 Hugo Award & 1944 Retro Hugo Award Finalists". The Hugo Awards. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  18. ^ "2020 Hugo Awards Announced". The Hugo Awards. 31 July 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  19. ^ "Award Category: 2020 Book (Elgin Award)". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  20. ^ Glyer, Mike (29 June 2021). "2021 Elgin Award Finalists". File 770. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
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