2018 ESFS Awards Winners

The European Science Fiction Society (ESFS) Hall of Fame Awards, Achievement Awards, and Chrysalis Awards winners have been announced, along with the names of the nominating countries:

European Grand Master:

  • Gérard Klein (France)

Hall of Fame Awards:

Best Author

  • WINNER: Anna Starobinets (Russia)
  • Andreas Brandhorst (Germany)
  • Marc Elsberg (Austria)
  • Clelia Farris (Italy)
  • Laurent Genefort (France)
  • Derek Landy (Ireland)
  • Serhiy Zhadan (Ukraine)

Best Artist

  • WINNER: Milivoj Ćeran (Croatia)
  • Igor Baranko (Ukraine)
  • Paul Bolger (Ireland)
  • Didier Cottier (France)
  • Andrew Ferez (Russia)
  • Reinhard Habeck (Austria)
  • Maya Hahto (Finland)
  • Luis Peres (Portugal)
  • Pavel Tatarnikau (Belarus)

Best Magazine

  • WINNER: Angle Mort (France)
  • Inostranka Literatura (Russia)

Best Publisher

  • WINNER: Zhupansky (Ukraine)
  • Azbooka (Russia)
  • Hangar7 (Croatia)
  • Mnémos (France)
  • Septime Verlag (Austria)
  • Yanushkevic (Belarus)
  • Zona 42 (Italy)

Best Promoter

  • WINNER: Jukka Halme (Finland)
  • Organizing Committee of Helsinki Worldcon (Russia)
  • Quarante-deux (France)
  • Yuri Shevela (Ukraine)
  • Davor Šišović (Croatia)
  • Lucian-Vasile Szabo (Romania)
  • Francesco Verso (Italy)

Best Translator

  • WINNER: Ylva Spångberg (Sweden)
  • Milena Benini (Croatia)
  • Sara Doke (France)
  • Pavel Kostukevich (Belarus)
  • Serhii Leheza (Ukraine)
  • Svetlana Lichacheva (Russia)
  • Mihai-Dan Pavelescu (Romania)
  • Michael Preissl (Austria)

Achievement Awards:

Best Work of Fiction

  • WINNER: The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (France)
  • In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Ireland)
  • Equilibrium, Anna Jakobsson Lund (Sweden)
  • Noras Welten, Madeleine Puljic (Austria)
  • “Projekcije”, Jurica Ranj (Croatia)
  • “Shoe of Mnemosyne”, Lyudmila Rublevskaya (Belarus)
  • God Bless You! Black Gensec, Oleksii Zhupanskyi (Ukraine)

Best Work of Art

  • WINNER: Cover for Junker’s i Vailiant protiv sila tame, Sebastijan Čamagajevac (Croatia)
  • Covers for Le livre de l’énigme, Melchior Ascaride (France)
  • “Scraps of the Untainted Sky”, Daniel Dociu (Romania)
  • Covers for Dark Tower – NEO, Andrew Ferez (Russia)
  • “The Will” project (Ukraine)

Best Fanzine

  • WINNER: Journey Planet 3/17 (Ireland)
  • Das ist fantastisch Alter Ego #4 (Ukraine)
  • Gazeta SF 8/17 (Romania)
  • Présence d’Esprit 5/18 (France)
  • Rampant Tramp Winter 2017-2018 (Russia)

Best Work for Children (tie)

  • WINNER: Moj brat živi u kompjuteru, Branka Primorac (Croatia)
  • WINNER: Das Sagenbuch zum Stephansdom, Barbara Schinko (Austria)
  • Aventures à Guedelon, Danielle Martinigol (France)
  • The Squires of Cossack Shvayka, Volodymyr Rutkivsky (Ukraine)
  • Wonderful summer of misters Kublicki and Zablocki, Piatro Vasiuchenka (Belarus)
  • ChYaP, Eduard Verkin (Russia)

Best Internet Publication, Other than a Fanzine

Best Dramatic Presentation

  • WINNER: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (France)
  • Prychynna: The Story of Love (Ukraine)
  • THELMA (Romania)
  • La tortue rouge (Russia)

Winners of the Chrysalis Awards (for emerging writer or artist):

  • Martin Hatala (Slovakia)
  • Yaryna Katorozh (Ukraine)
  • Maksim Kutuzau (Belarus)
  • Věra Mertlíková (Czech Republic)
  • Sinéad O’Heart (Ireland)
  • Verena Petrasch (Austria)
  • Nicolas Sarter (France)
  • Daniel Timariu (Romania)

Winners were announced during Eurocon 40 held July 19-22, 2018 in Amiens France.

For more information, see the ESFS website.

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