The Geffen Award is an annual literary award

Literary award

A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...

 given by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy since 1999, and presented at the Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, ICon Festival

ICon festival

ICon is an Israeli Science Fiction and Fantasy fan convention held annually in the Tel Aviv Cinemateque during the Sukkot holiday. The name ICon is a shortening of the phrase Israeli Convention. The first ICon was held in 1998 and was presented as a convention...

. It is named in honour of editor and translator Amos Geffen, who was one of the society's founders.

Categories

• Best translated science fiction book
• Best translated fantasy book
• Best translated book for children or young adults (since 2008)
• Best translation of a science fiction or fantasy book (since 2008, in collaboration with the Israeli Translator's Association)
• Best original SF/F short story (since 2002)
• Best original SF/Fantasy book (since 2003)

2008

Best Translated Science Fiction Book:
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson

Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been...

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Translated by Yael Inbar, Yanshuf Publishing.

Best Translated Fantasy Book:
The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...

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Translated by Yonatan Bar, Kidmat Eden Publishing.

Best Translated YA or Children SF&F Book:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...

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Translated by Gili Bar-Hillel

Gili Bar-Hillel

Gili Bar-Hillel Semo is an English-Hebrew translator from Israel, best known for translating the Harry Potter series into Hebrew.-Biography:...

 Semo, Yediot Books Publishing.

Best Original Hebrew SF&F Short Story:
Where Books are Lost, Lili Daie.
Published in Don't Panic! Online Magazine

Best Original Hebrew Book:
The Water Between the Worlds, Hagar Yanai

Hagar Yanai

Hagar Yanai is an Israeli author and recipient of the 2008 Prime Minister's Award for Israeli Authors. She is also a two-time recipient of the Geffen Award for Best Original Hebrew Fantasy.-Life and Works:...

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Keter Publishing

Best Translation of a SF&F book:
Gili Bar-Hillel

Gili Bar-Hillel

Gili Bar-Hillel Semo is an English-Hebrew translator from Israel, best known for translating the Harry Potter series into Hebrew.-Biography:...

 Semo for translating the book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...

, Yediot Books Publishing

2007

Best Translated Science Fiction Book:
Old Man's War, John Scalzi

John Scalzi

John Michael Scalzi II is an American author and online writer, and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog , at which he has written...

Translated by Raz Greenberg, Yanshuf Publishing

Best Translated Fantasy Book:
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke

Susanna Mary Clarke is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time...

Translated by Vered Tochterman, Yanshuf Publishing

Best Original Hebrew SF&F Short Story:
In the Mirror, Rotem Baruchin
The Tenth Dimension Magazine, issue 29

Best Original Hebrew Book:
The Whale of Babylon, Hagar Yanai
Keter Publishing

2006

Best Translated Science Fiction Book:
Spin, Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.Wilson was born in the United States in California, but grew up near Toronto, Ontario. Apart from another short period in the early 1970s spent in Whittier, California, he has lived most of his life in Canada, and in 2007 he...

Translated by Didi Chanoch, Graff Publishing

Best Translated Fantasy Book:
Anansi Boys

Anansi Boys

Anansi Boys is a novel by Neil Gaiman, a spin-off of Gaiman's earlier novel American Gods. In Anansi Boys we discover that 'Mr. Nancy' has two sons, and the two sons in turn discover each other...

, Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...

Translated by Vered Tochterman, Opus Press

Best Original Hebrew SF&F Short Story:
East of Eden, Hagay Averbuch
The Israeli Society for SF&F Online Magazine

2005

Best translated science fiction book:
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...

Translated by Didi Chanoch, Yanshuf Publishing

Best translated fantasy book:
Transformation, Carol Berg

Carol Berg

Carol Berg is the author of several fantasy novels, including the books from the Rai-Kirah series, Song of the Beast, the books from The Bridge of D'Arnath series, and the Lighthouse novels...

Translated by Didi Chanoch, Graff Publishing

Best Original Hebrew SF&F Short Story:
The Perfect Girl, Guy Hasson

Guy Hasson

Guy Hasson is an Israeli playwright, film maker and science fiction writer. While he writes plays and scripts mainly in Hebrew, his fiction is almost exclusively written in English. He is a two-time winner of the Israeli Geffen Award: he won it in 2003 for his story "All-of-Me" and in 2005 for his...

Chalomot Be'aspamia

Chalomot Be'aspamia

Chalomot Be'aspamia is an Israeli magazine of science fiction and fantasy short stories. It is published since 2002 by Ron Yaniv. Its first editor was Vered Tochterman...

 magazine

Best Original Hebrew Book:
End's World, Ofir Touche Gafla
Keter Publishing

2004

Best translated science fiction book:
Warchild, Karin Lowachee

Karin Lowachee

Karin Lowachee is a Canadian author of speculative fiction.Lowachee is the author of four novels, Warchild , Burndive , Cagebird and The Gaslight Dogs . Warchild is noteworthy for its use of second-person point of view for the first several chapters of the novel. This book won the Warner Aspect...

Translated by Inbal Sagiv, Opus Press

Best translated fantasy book:
Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...

Translated by Yael Achmon, Opus Press

Best original SF/Fantasy short story:
Dragon Checkpoint, Rami Shalheveth
The Tenth Dimension

The Tenth Dimension

The Tenth Dimension is a magazine published only in Israel and is the official magazine of the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy. The magazine was first published in 1996. Since its second issue, the magazine has had color covers. Also from issue #2, all covers have been painted by...

 magazine

2003

Best translated science fiction book:
Solaris

Solaris (novel)

Solaris is a 1961 Polish science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem. It is about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species....

, Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Lem

Stanisław Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire. He was named a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris, which has...

Translated by Aharon Hauptman, Keter publishing house

Best translated fantasy book:
American Gods

American Gods

American Gods is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on a mysterious and taciturn protagonist, Shadow. It is Gaiman's fourth prose novel, being preceded by Good Omens ,...

, Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...

Translated by Rechavia Berman, Opus Press

Best original SF/Fantasy short story:
All-of-Me(TM), Guy Hasson
Chalomot Beaspamia magazine

Best original SF/Fantasy book:
Sometimes It's Different, Vered Tochterman

Vered Tochterman

Vered Tochterman is an Israeli author, translator and editor of science fiction and fantasy. Among her work is a short story collection, Lifamim Ze Acheret , , for whom she received the Israeli Geffen Award in 2003 as well as an array of short stories published in varies magazines in Israel...

Opus Press

2002

Best translated science fiction book:
Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents a future American society where reading is outlawed and firemen start fires to burn books...

, Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...

Translated by Noa Manheim, Odyssey Publishing House

Best translated fantasy book:
A Storm of Swords

A Storm of Swords

A Storm of Swords is the third of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy series by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on 8 August 2000 in the United Kingdom, with a United States edition following in November 2000...

, George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...

Translated by David Chanoch, Opus Press

Best original SF/Fantasy short story:
Me and Grandma Go Shopping, Hamutal Levin
Bli Panika

2001

Best translated science fiction book:
Ender's Shadow

Ender's Shadow

Ender's Shadow is a parallel science fiction novel by the American author Orson Scott Card, taking place at the same time as the novel Ender's Game and depicting the same events from the point of view of Bean, a supporting character in the original novel. It was originally to be titled Urchin, but...

, Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...

Translated by Rechavia Berman, Opus Press

Best translated fantasy book:
The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers

Tim Powers

Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare...

Translated by Vered Tochterman, Opus Press

2000

Best translated science fiction book:
Dune: House Atreides

Dune: House Atreides

Dune: House Atreides is a 1999 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. It is the first book in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy, which takes place before the events of Frank Herbert's celebrated 1965 novel Dune...

, Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert

Brian Patrick Herbert is an American author who lives in Washington state. He is the elder son of science fiction author Frank Herbert....

, Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels...

Translated by Dorit Landes, Am Oved Publishing House

Best translated fantasy book:
Stardust

Stardust (novel)

Stardust is the first solo prose novel by Neil Gaiman. It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy, following in the...

, Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...

Translated by Ornit Shachar, Opus Press

1999

Best translated science fiction book: Pastwatch

Pastwatch

The Pastwatch series is a group of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card, dealing with time travel and alternate history. To date only one book in the series has been published...

, Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...

Translated by Rechavia Berman, Opus Press

Best translated fantasy book: Swords and Deviltry, Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...

Translated by Adva Zeltser, Opus Press

External links

• Geffen Award English page at the official awards site.