2020 ESFS Awards Winners

European Grand Master

• Franz Rottensteiner (Austria)

Hall of Fame Awards:

Best Author

• WINNER: Milena Benini (Croatia)

• Philippe Curval (France)
• Marc Elsberg (Austria)
• Anna Kańtoch (Poland)
• Maura McHugh (Ireland)
• Claude Peiffer (Luxembourg)
• Victor Pelevin / Виктор Пелевин (Russia)
• Gheorghe Sasarman (Romania)
• Johanna Sinisalo (Finland)
• José Carlos Somoza (Spain)
• Francesco Verso (Italy)

Best Artist

• WINNER: Sergey Shikin / Сергей Шикин (Russia)

• Igor Baranko (Ukraine)
• Ken Barthelmey (Luxembourg)
• Zdenko Bašić (Croatia)
• Philippe Caza (France)
• Adrian Chifu (Romania)
• Iain Clark (Ireland)
• Enrique Corominas (Spain)
• Petri Hiltunen (Finland)
• Tomasz Maroński (Poland)

Best Magazine

• WINNER: Esensja (Poland)

• μ Cephei / Мю Цефея (Russia)
• Gandahar (France)
• Helion (Romania)
• IF – Insolito e Fantastico (Italy)
• Sirius B (Croatia)
• Tantrum (Spain)

Best Publisher

• WINNER: L’Atalante (France)

• Crononauta (Spain)
• Fanzon (Russia)
• Hangar 7 (Croatia)
• Ohneohren (Austria)
• PAVCON (Romania)
• Robert “Gollo” Steffen (Luxembourg)
• Wydawnictwo MAG (Poland)
• Zona 42 (Italy)

Best Promoter

• WINNER: Cristina Jurado (Spain)

• Deep Space One (Italy)
• Alexey Karavaev / Алексей Караваев (Russia)
• Gérard Kraus (Luxembourg)
• Vesna Kurilić (Croatia)
• Raymond Milési (France)
• Yuri Shevela (Ukraine)
• Marguerite Smith (Ireland)

Best Translator

• WINNER: Pilar Ramírez Tello (Spain)

• Silvia Castoldi (Italy)
• Michelle Charrier (France)
• Silviu Genescu (Romania)
• Paweł Laudański (Russia)
• Igor Rendić (Croatia)

Achievement Awards:

Best Work of Fiction

• WINNER: Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald (Ireland)

• Krsnik, Ana Cerovac (Croatia)
• Trois hourras pour Lady Évangeline, Jean-Claude Dunyach (France)
• The Harm Tree, Rose Edwards (Luxembourg)
• Bionautas, Cristina Jurado (Spain)
• No/Mad/Land, Francesco Verso (Italy)
• Shape Me, Melanie Vogltanz (Austria)

Best Work of Art

• WINNER: Dublin 2019 Hugo Award bases, Eleanor Wheeler & Jim Fitzpatrick (Ireland)

• Cover for Utopiales 19, Mathieu Bablet (France)
• Tow & Tank, Andy Genen (Luxembourg)
• Däniken zum Schmunzel, Reinhard Habeck (Austria)
• Art for La guerra de Dios, Juan Alberto Hernández (Spain)
• Other Worlds exhibition, Maja Strgar Kurečić (Croatia)
• Poster for “Cartoons on the Bay 2019”, Maurizio Manzieri (Italy)
• Cover for Other Sky, Sergey Shikin (Russia)
• “Urtidsbilder”, Simon Stålenhag (Sweden)

Best Fanzine

• WINNER: Journey Planet: A Half Pint of Flann (Ireland)

• Aconitum / Аконит 7-8/20 (Russia)
• Cuentos para Algernon 12/19 (Spain)
• FantaSTine #3 (Croatia)
• Présences d’esprits #96 (France)
• Sci-Fan 9/1/19 (Luxembourg)
• Super Pulp #5 (Austria)
• ZIN 4/19 (Romania)

Best Work for Children

• WINNER: The Invasion, Peadar Ó Guilín (Ireland)

• Dvojnici iz Tame, Morea Banićević (Croatia)
• Charovodjie Cycle, Julia Ivanova (Russia)
• Illustrated Fairytales, Sabrina Kaufmann (Luxembourg)
• Rapunzel con piojos, Miguel López (Spain)
• Thalmus, Ursula Poznanski (Austria)
• Mers Mortes, Aurélie Wellenstein (France)

Best Internet Publication, Other than a Fanzine (tie)

• WINNER: Fantascientificast (Italy)
• WINNER: The Irish Fandom Community Group (Ireland)

• ActuSF (France)
• Vladimir Anikeev’s author blog (Russia)
• Decameron 2020: priče iz karantene (Croatia)
• La nave invisible (Spain)

Best Dramatic Presentation

• WINNER: Good Omens (Italy)

• Aniara (Finland and Sweden)
• Dr. Krell & The Carnyx of Terror (Ireland)
• Klaus (Spain)
• Little Joe (Austria)
• The Outbreak / Эпидемия (Russia)
• Slice of Life (Croatia)
• Superjhemp Retörns (Luxembourg)
• Terra Willy – Planète inconnue (France)

The Chrysalis Award Winners:

• Diana Alzner (Romania)
• Jean Bürlesk (Luxembourg)
• Linda De Santi (Italy)
• Oein DeBhairduin (Ireland)
• Caroline Hofstätter (Austria)
• Volodymyr Kuznietsov (Ukraine)
• Zoe Penn (Croatia)
• Olga Rejn / Ольга Рэйн (Russia)
• Edmund Schluessel (Finland)
• Chloé Veillard (France)
• Haizea Zubieta (Spain)