2022 ESFS Awards Winners

Hall of Fame Awards:

Best Author

• WINNER: Francesco Verso (Italy)

• José Antonio Cotrina (Spain)
• Philippe Curval (France)
• Theresa Hannig (Germany)
• Tatjana Jambrišak (Croatia)
• Katharina Köller (Austria)
• Ruth Long (Ireland)
• Nikolay Peev (Bulgaria)
• Claude Peiffer (Luxembourg)
• Florin Purluca (Romania)
• Tade Thompson (United Kingdom)
• Eduard Verkin / Эдуард Веркин (Russia)

Best Artist

• JOINT WINNER: Igor Kordej (Croatia)
• JOINT WINNER: Roch Urbaniak (Poland)

• Nora “Nono” Back (Luxembourg)
• Alain Brion (France)
• Adrian Chifu (Romania)
• Iain Clark (United Kingdom)
• Ciaraíoch/Ciara Kenny (Ireland)
• Oleh Kinal (Ukraine)
• Timo Kümmel (Germany)
• Emma Ríos (Spain)
• Peter Stanimirov (Bulgaria)

Best Magazine

• WINNER: Sci Phi Journal – A Universe of Wonder (Belgium)

• Dracus (Bulgaria)
• Edita (Russia)
• Fantasy Magazine (Italy)
• Gandahar (France)
• Phantastisch!/ Klaus Bollhöfener (Germany)
• Opportunity (Spain)
• UtopIQa (Romania)

Best Publisher

• JOINT WINNER: Copernicus Corporation (Poland)
• WINNER: Hangar 7 (Croatia)

• Artline Studios (Bulgaria)
• Crononauta (Spain)
• Edizioni Hypnos (Italy)
• Grup editorial Art (Arthur, Grafic, Paladin) (Romania)
• Kremart Edition (Luxembourg)
• Mann, Ivanov and Ferber / Манн, Иванов и Фербер (Russia)
• Mnémos (France)
• Ohneohren (Austria)
• Plan9 Verlag/ Sandra Thoms (Germany)
• Rebellion Publishing (United Kingdom)
• The Swan River Press (Ireland)

Best Promoter

• WINNER: Yuri Shevela (Ukraine)

• Xavier Dollo (France)
• Fantlab.ru / Фантлаб (Russia)
• Flora Staglianò Deep Space 1 (Italy)
• Udo Klotz (Germany)
• Gérard Kraus (Luxembourg)
• The Glasgow 2024 Promotions Team (United Kingdom)
• Juan José Parera (Spain)
• Constantin D. Pavel (Romania)
• Raissa Perez (Ireland)
• Margit S. Sárdi (Hungary)
• The Team of ShadowDance (Bulgaria)

Best Translator

• WINNER: Jack Fennell (Ireland)

• Veiko Belials (Russia)
• Guy Berg (Luxembourg)
• Antuza Genescu (Romania)
• Gabriella Gregori (Italy)
• Gilles Goullet (France)
• Bernhard Kempen (Germany)
• Elena Pavlova (Bulgaria)
• Bohdan Stasiuk (Ukraine)
• Bernhard Strobel (Austria)
• Manu Viciano (Spain)

Achievement Awards:

Best Work of Fiction

• WINNER: Futurespotting, Francesco Verso (Italy)

• Edge of Heaven, RB Kelly (Ireland)
• La Nuit du faune, Romain Lucazeau (France)
• La simiente de la esquirla, Rodolfo Martínez (Spain)
• Seven writers in space, Nikolay Peev (Bulgaria)
• A Town Called River, Igor Rendić (Croatia)
• Wagners Stimme (Wagner’s Voice), Carsten Schmitt (Germany)
• Fata de pe drumul matasii, Liviu Surugiu (Romania)
• The Memory Theater, Karin Tidbeck (Sweden)
• Seth ist gefallen, Melanie Vogltanz (Austria)
• Das Gangrän, Maxime Weber (Luxembourg)

Best Work of Art

• WINNER: Cover art by Sparth, for La Dernière Emperox, John Scalzi (France)

• Global Justice: A 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special, Michael Carroll & Maura McHugh, eds. (Ireland)
• Glasgow Green Lady, Iain Clark (United Kingdom)
• Skull in A Jar, Heather Kremer (Luxembourg)
• EuroCon 2021 (Official Poster), Maurizio Manzieri (Italy)
• Ukrainian cyberpunk: kiberpoznyaki 2077, Val Porada (Ukraine)
• Cover art by Sparth, for La Dernière Emperox, John Scalzi (France)
• Cover Illustration of Cozmic 2, Meike Schultchen (Germany)
• Cover and illustrations for The day when our mom went up to the sky, Peter Stanimirov (Bulgaria)
• Fata stimei apelor, vol 2, Maria Surducan (script), Anna Benczedi (art) (Romania)
• Cover and illustrations for Igualtat de Ritus’,  Marina Vidal (Spain)

Best Fanzine

• WINNER: Présences d’esprit 105 (France)

• Descanso corto, Laurielle (Spain)
• Fantastine 4 (Croatia)
• A Gathering of Troubadours (Bulgaria)
• Living Force 51 (Italy)
• RING RING: an untitled goose game fanzine (Ireland)
• Super Pulp #9 (Austria)
• !Time Machine 5 (Germany)

Best Work for Children

• WINNER: Świat Lema (The world of Lem), Marta Ignerska (Poland)

• Where should I throw this away?, Maya Bocheva (Bulgaria)
• Biotanistes, Anne-Sophie Devriese (France)
• Stanotte sfilano cento fantasmi, Xia Jia, Serena Meo and Gabriele “Caelpher” Ghirelli (Italy)
• The Promise Witch (The Wild Magic Trilogy 3), Celine Kiernan (Ireland)
• Grickonja Užasa, Zoran Krušvar & Anja Babić (Croatia)
• Diary of a planet collector/Віктор Робот. Щоденник збирача планет, Anastasiia Lavrenishyna (Ukraine)
• The Boy Whose Head Was Filled with Stars: A Life of Edwin Hubble, Isabelle Marinov (Luxembourg)
• Mona Olala, Hélène Mallet & Varvara Pomidor (Russia)
• Cryptos, Ursula Poznanski (Austria)
• În căutarea lui Akum, Adina Rosetti (Romania)

Best Internet Publication, Other than a Fanzine

• WINNER: The National Leprechaun Museum Talking Stories podcast (Ireland)

• ActuSF (France)
• Blogul de SeFe (Romania)
• Cuentos para Algernon, Marchetto (Spain)
• FantasyGuide (Germany)
• Far beyond the clouds, further from earth away, Oleksandr Burlaka (Ukraine)
• Morina Kutija (Croatia)
• Octothorpe (United Kingdom)
• ShadowDance (Bulgaria)
• Solarpunk Italia (Italy)

Best Dramatic Presentation

• WINNER: Will Sliney’s Storytellers, Will Sliney (Ireland)

• Freaks out, Gabriele Mainetti (Italy)
• Groapa (The Grave), Doru Maniu and Alexandru Maniu (Romania)
• Kaamelott: The First Chapter, Alexandre Astier (France)
• Mamnik, Vasil Popov (Bulgaria)
• Roland Meyer’s reading of Stanislaw Lem’s How Erg the Self-inducting Slew a Paleface, (Luxembourgish)
• El ministerio del tiempo– Season 4 (Spain)
• Utopia – Schöne neue Welt(en), Bruno Max (Austria)

The Chrysalis Award:

• Eleanor Bardilac (Austria)
• Victoria Beshliiska (Bulgaria)
• Stefan Dahlström (Sweden)
• Pavlo Derevianko (Ukraine)
• Ragim Dzhafarov / Рагим Джафаров (Russia)
• Elle McNicoll (United Kingdom)
• Josh O’Caoimh (Ireland)
• Saul Pandelakis (France)
• Ligia Pârvulescu (Romania)
• Maxime Weber (Luxembourg)