2018 ESFS Awards Winners

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

• WINNER: nooSFere (France)

• Vladimir Anikeev author’s blog (Russia)
• Cronache di un sole lontano (Italy)
• Svit Fantasy (Ukraine)

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)