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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.

Bogi Takács
Born	(1983-12-25) December 25, 1983 (age 38) Győr, Hungary
Occupation	Author Linguist
Education	ELTE University of Budapest University of Iowa University of Kansas
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy, poetry
Notable awards	Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature
Spouse	R.B. Lemberg
Website
www.prezzey.net

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

• Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction for Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction
• Finalist for the Locus Award for Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction[14][15]
• Finalist for the 2018 and 2019 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer[16][17]
• Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer[18]
• Nominee for the 2020 and 2021 Elgin Awards for Algorithmic Shapeshifting[19][20]

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

• Power to Yield - Clarkesworld Magazine , July 2020

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

• Algorithmic Shapeshifting (Aqueduct Press, 2019)

References

External links

• Official website
• Bogi Takács at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bogi Reads the World

На других языках

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- [en] Bogi Takács

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[fr] Bogi Takács

Bogi Takács (né le 25 décembre 1983[1]) est une personne hongroise psycholinguiste à l'origine de romans, de poèmes, de traductions et d'éditions. Takács est une personne intersexe et agenre[2], écrivant essentiellement sur sa pratique du judaïsme et sur des thèmes inspirés de la Torah. Takács utilise en anglais les pronoms e/em et they/them.

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[ru] Такач, Боги

Боги Такач (англ. Bogi Takács; род. 25 декабря 1983; Дьёр, Венгрия) — венгерский поэт, писатель, психолингвист, редактор и переводчик[2]. Пишет произведения на еврейскую тематику, вдохновляясь Торой.

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