Toni Jerrman
Encyclopedia
Toni Jerrman is critic
and editor
of the Finnish
sci-fi magazine
Tähtivaeltaja
.
He has won several awards, including:
Critic
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and editor
Editing
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of the Finnish
Finland
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sci-fi magazine
Magazine
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Tähtivaeltaja
Tähtivaeltaja
Tähtivaeltaja is a Finnish quarterly science fiction magazine published by Helsingin science fiction seura ry. Toni Jerrman has been the editor of the magazine throughout its twenty-year history...
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He has won several awards, including:
- The Arctic Comic Festival's Publication-Lempi for Tähtivaeltaja (1998)
- Dark Fantasy's Golden Chainsaw for the best horror print (short story anthology Himon anatomia, edited by Jerrman) (1998)
- The Finnish Science Fiction Writers Association's Cosmos Pen reward for promoting Finnish sci-fi literature (1992)
- European Science Fiction Society's European Science Fiction Award: Best chief editor (1988)
External links
- The official Tähtivaeltaja site
- Jeff VanderMeer: Dispatches From Smaragdine. SF Site, November 2006.
- Jeff VanderMeer Interviews Toni Jerrman. The SF Signal 5/2011.