title: Elias Munk
Battles in the Desert
Salvador (short story)
Mathieu Cailler
Inconstant Moon
Dilman Dila
The Dog Said Bow-Wow
Rudyard Kipling
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Nebula Award for Best Short Story
sentences: Elias Græsbøll Munk-Petersen (born 21 May 1992) is a Danish actor.
 He is also a writer, who wrote his first novel "The Stupidity of Youth" at the age of 17 and a lot of short-stories.
 Elias was selected as Northern Light Talent at the Berlinale Filmfestival 2015.
 His career in Denmark kicked off with a lead role in the feature film "For My Brother" by Brian Bang.
 This led to a lead role in the short fiction story "Exit Neverland" by Chadi Abdul-Karim.
, that was nominated for a Robert Award and won the European Indepented Filmfestival for best short story.
 In 2014 Elias played lead in the short story "When the Sun Shines" that won Guldægget Award for best short story and Elias won the Guldægget Award for best actor.
 The success of the short movie led to the making of the feature film that premiered in Denmark at the CPH PIX filmfestival October 2016.
 Same year, at the Subtitle Film Festival, Elias won a shared award for Outstanding Performance with Laura Kjær for their roles in "When The Sun Shines".
Battles in the Desert, or "Las batallas en el desierto", is a short story written by Mexican author José Emilio Pacheco.
 The short story was first published in the Saturday edition of the Uno Más Uno, a Mexican newspaper, on June 7, 1980, but was published as a short story by Era the following year.
 The short story is narrated by Carlos, as an adult, recounting his memories as a boy growing up in Mexico City in the late 1940s and 1950s.
 In particular, his experiences and the events that unfolded after falling in love with one of his classmate’s mother comprise the central narrative of the short novel.
"Salvador" is a science fiction short story by American writer Lucius Shepard.
 Originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fict ion" in 1984, the following year it won the Locus Poll award for Best Short Story, the SF Chronicle award for Short Story and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Short Story.
Mathieu Cailler (born June 16, 1984) is a French-American writer of poetry and prose.
 A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, he has been a finalist for the "Glimmer Train" New Writers Award, the New Rivers Press American Fiction Prize, and the "Carve Magazine" Raymond Carver Short Story Contest.
 He is also the recipient of a Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction and a Shakespeare Award for Poetry.
 He is the author of "Clotheslines" (Red Bird Press), "Shhh" (ELJ Publications), and the collection of short stories, "Loss Angeles" (Short Story America Press).
Inconstant Moon is a science fiction short story collection by American author Larry Niven that was published in 1973.
 "Inconstant Moon" is also a 1971 short story that is included in the collection.
 The title is a quote from the balcony scene in William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
 The collection was assembled from the US collections "The Shape of Space" and "All the Myriad Ways".
 The short story won the 1972 Hugo Award for best short story.
Dilman Dila is a Ugandan writer, film maker and a social activist.
 He is the author of a collection of short stories, "A Killing in the Sun", and of two novellas, "Cranes Crest at Sunset", and "The Terminal Move".
 He was shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for "A Killing in the Sun", longlisted for the Short Story Day Africa prize, 2013, and nominated for the 2008 Million Writers Awards for the short story "Homecoming".
 He was longlisted for the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition with his first radio play, "Toilets are for Something Fishy".
 His film "The Felistas Fable" (2013) won four awards at the Uganda Film Festival 2014, for Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Feature Film, and Film of the Year (Best Director).
 It won two nominations at the Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best First Feature by a Director, and Best Make-up Artist.
 It was also nominated for the African Magic Viewers Choice Awards for Best Make-up artist, 2013.
 His first short film, "What Happened in Room 13", is one of the most watched African films on YouTube.
 In 2015, he was longlisted for the Inaugural Jalada Prize for Literature for his story "Onen and his Daughter".
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" is a science fiction short story by American writer Michael Swanwick, published in 2001.
 It won the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and was nominated for the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
 "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" is the title story of his 2007 short story collection, published by Tachyon Publications, and was reprinted in the same year in "".
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 anthology "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose.
The Nebula Award for Best Short Story is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy short stories.
 A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short story if it is less than 7,500 words; awards are also given out for longer works in the categories of novel, novella, and novelette.
 To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration a short story must be published in English in the United States.
 Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible provided they are released on either a website or in an electronic edition.
 The Nebula Award for Best Short Story has been awarded annually since 1966.
 The award has been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards.

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 Elias Græsbøll Munk-Petersen (born 21 May 1992) is a Danish actor.
 He is also a writer, who wrote his first novel "The Stupidity of Youth" at the age of 17 and a lot of short-stories.
 Elias was selected as Northern Light Talent at the Berlinale Filmfestival 2015.
 His career in Denmark kicked off with a lead role in the feature film "For My Brother" by Brian Bang.
 This led to a lead role in the short fiction story "Exit Neverland" by Chadi Abdul-Karim.
, that was nominated for a Robert Award and won the European Indepented Filmfestival for best short story.
 In 2014 Elias played lead in the short story "When the Sun Shines" that won Guldægget Award for best short story and Elias won the Guldægget Award for best actor.
 The success of the short movie led to the making of the feature film that premiered in Denmark at the CPH PIX filmfestival October 2016.
 Same year, at the Subtitle Film Festival, Elias won a shared award for Outstanding Performance with Laura Kjær for their roles in "When The Sun Shines". 

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 Battles in the Desert, or "Las batallas en el desierto", is a short story written by Mexican author José Emilio Pacheco.
 The short story was first published in the Saturday edition of the Uno Más Uno, a Mexican newspaper, on June 7, 1980, but was published as a short story by Era the following year.
 The short story is narrated by Carlos, as an adult, recounting his memories as a boy growing up in Mexico City in the late 1940s and 1950s.
 In particular, his experiences and the events that unfolded after falling in love with one of his classmate’s mother comprise the central narrative of the short novel. 

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 "Salvador" is a science fiction short story by American writer Lucius Shepard.
 Originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fict ion" in 1984, the following year it won the Locus Poll award for Best Short Story, the SF Chronicle award for Short Story and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Short Story. 

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 Mathieu Cailler (born June 16, 1984) is a French-American writer of poetry and prose.
 A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, he has been a finalist for the "Glimmer Train" New Writers Award, the New Rivers Press American Fiction Prize, and the "Carve Magazine" Raymond Carver Short Story Contest.
 He is also the recipient of a Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction and a Shakespeare Award for Poetry.
 He is the author of "Clotheslines" (Red Bird Press), "Shhh" (ELJ Publications), and the collection of short stories, "Loss Angeles" (Short Story America Press). 

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 Inconstant Moon is a science fiction short story collection by American author Larry Niven that was published in 1973.
 "Inconstant Moon" is also a 1971 short story that is included in the collection.
 The title is a quote from the balcony scene in William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
 The collection was assembled from the US collections "The Shape of Space" and "All the Myriad Ways".
 The short story won the 1972 Hugo Award for best short story. 

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 "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" is a science fiction short story by American writer Michael Swanwick, published in 2001.
 It won the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and was nominated for the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
 "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" is the title story of his 2007 short story collection, published by Tachyon Publications, and was reprinted in the same year in "". 

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 Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. 

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 "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 anthology "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. 

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Answer: 1936