I am honored and ecstatic to discover that a series of online publications and blogs have decided that my novel RecipeArium is among the “100 Must-Read Works of Speculative Fiction in Translation”. One of these publications being the prestigious Europa SF (The European Speculative Fiction Portal), which is in English, so accessible to English language readers.
The one thing that has me over the moon is that RecipeArium is considered among the first 100 Must-Read Speculative Fiction in the world, next to names like Jorge Luis Borges, Mikhail Bulgakov, Karel Capek, Jules Verne, Italo Calvino, Haruki Murakami, Stanislaw Lem and many other literary giants.
There’s one other Romanian writer considered—Gheorghe Sasarman with “Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogomy, Fantastic Tales”, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin, which is another reason that makes me sure I’m in excellent company.
Rachel Cordasco who compiled the list with authors from around the world writes in the beginning of her article: “There’s a great big world out there, filled with accomplished authors writing in every language. Speculative fiction is an especially vibrant genre, and with works like Cixin Liu’s award-winning “Three-Body Problem” garnering much-deserved applause here in the U.S., and multiple anthologies of Spanish-language fiction becoming available, there’s never been a better time to build your TBR list.”
I believe she’s right.
And I’m happy to announce that White Cat Publications is getting close to release RecipeArium this spring. More details to come.