Congratulations! Bogi Takács is the first Hungarian who won the Hugo award!
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Many regard the prize as the Academy Award of science fiction. The World Science Fiction Society decides about the winners of the award each year which received its name after Hugo Gernsback, founder of the Amazing Stories, a science fiction magazine.
According to index.hu, the Hugo and Nebula awards are the two most popular and well-known acknowledgements in the science fiction society. It was in 1953 that the World Science Fiction Society distributed it for the first time and, except for 1954, that has happened even since wielding the name Hugo from 1993 on.
Never before did a Hungarian author receive the award. Before, Lisa Goldstein, a writer of Hungarian origins, was very close to it in 1988, but she did not win the novel category then. Bogi Takács seems to be the ice breaker in this respect since she won the fan writer category last Friday. That was not her first nomination, since in 2018 and 2019 she was already in the competition.