2018 ESFS Awards Nominations

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

Hall of Fame Awards:

Best Author

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

Best Artist

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

Best Magazine

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

Best Publisher

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

Best Promoter

  • 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

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

Achievement Awards:

Best Work of Fiction

  • In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Ireland)
  • The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (France)
  • 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

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

Best Fanzine

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

Best Work for Children

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

Best Internet Publication, Other than a Fanzine

Best Dramatic Presentation

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

The Chrysalis Award:

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

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

For more information, see the ESFS website.


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