2023 ESFS Awards Winners

Hall of Fame Awards:

Best Author

• WINNER: Jacek Dukaj (Poland)

• Eoin Colfer (Ireland)
• Philippe Curval (France)
• Marc Elsberg (Austria)
• Laura Gallego (Spain)
• Emmi Itäranta (Finland)
• Tatjana Jambrišak (Croatia)
• Aiki Mira (Germany)
• Bruno Martins Soares (Portugal)
• Nicoletta Vallorani (Italy)

Best Artist

• WINNER: Jesper Ejsing (Denmark)

• Jog Brogzin (Ireland)
• Natacha Bustos (Spain)
• Didier Graffet (France)
• Boris Groh / Борис Грох (Ukraine)
• Petri Hiltunen (Finland)
• Korina Hunjak (Croatia)
• Nicolas Krizan (Sweden)
• André Mata (Portugal)
• Leo Ortolani (Italy)
• Thomas Thiemeyer (Germany)

Best Magazine

• WINNER: Future Fiction Magazine, Sylvana Freyberg and Uwe Post (Germany)

• Bang! (Portugal)
• Dimensione cosmica (Italy)
• Gandahar (France)
• Morina kutija (Croatia)
• Oasis (Spain)
• Tähtivaeltaja (Finland)

Best Publisher

• WINNER: Science Fiction Cirklen (Denmark)

• Duermevela (Spain)
• Edizioni Hypnos (Italy)
• Éditions Mnémos (France)
• Hirnkost (Germany)
• Kirjava (Finland)
• Limit Break Comics (Ireland)
• Ohneohren (Austria)
• Saida de Emergência (Portugal)
• Ylva Blomqvist (Sweden)

Best Promoter

• WINNER: Flora Staglianò (Italy & Ukraine)

• Stefan Cernohuby (Austria)
• Ricard Ruiz Garzón (Spain)
• Sandra Henriques (Portugal)
• Gareth Kavanagh (Ireland)
• Udo Klotz (Germany)
• Raymond Milési (France)

Best Translator

• WINNER: Sebastian Musielak (Poland)

• Silvia Castoldi (Italy)
• Hélène Collon (France)
• Adrian Cvitanović (Croatia)
• David Tejera Expósito (Spain)
• Ylva Kempe (Sweden)
• Bernhard Kempen (Germany)
• Luis Filipe Silva (Portugal)
• Iaroslava Strikha / Ярослава Стріха (Ukraine)

Achievement Awards:

Best Written Work of Fiction

• WINNER: Grim, Sara Bergmark Elfgren (Sweden)

• Unto the Godless What Little Remains, Mário Coelho (Portugal)
• The Chronicles of the Gray Order / Litopys Siroho Ordenu, Pavlo Derevianko / Павло Дерев’янко (Ukraine)
• Die letzten Tage von Salzburg, C.M. Dyrnberg (Austria)
• I vegumani, Clelia Farris (Italy)
• Carcoma, Layla Martínez (Spain)
• It Eats Us From The Inside, Antonija Mežnarić (Croatia)
• “Utopie27”, Aiki Mira (Germany)
• Vølvens Vej: Snehild, Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen (Denmark)
• Les Chants de Nüying, Émilie Querbalec (France)
• Płomień, Magdalena Salik (Poland)

Best Work of Art

• WINNER: Cover art for Bio Jednom Jedan Punk, Katarina Šumski (Croatia)

• The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Filipe Andrade (Portugal)
• Cover of Dans les profondeurs du temps, Alain Brion (France)
• HispaCón (Official Poster), Gonzalo Golpe (Spain)
• Praedor, Petri Hiltunen (Finland)
• Cover illustration for Phantastisch! 81, Timo Kümmel (Germany)
• Cover of I vegumani, Dayana Montesano (Italy)
• Cover for Der Wassermann hat Zeit, Leonie Schlager (Austria)
• Big City Bot, Dublin, Rob Stears (Ireland)

Best Fanzine

• WINNER: Himmelskibet, 63 (Denmark)

• !Time Machine by Udo Klotz, No. 5 Artifical Intelligence (Germany)
• Journey Planet 63 – Erró Errór (Ireland)
• KWS – Keep Watching the Skies 89 (France)
• Silicio, #1 (Italy)
• Svemirski brod, 14 (Croatia)
• UMBRA 3 (Portugal)
• Vientos de magia 1 (Spain)

Best Work for Children

• WINNER: Poe la nocchiera del tempo, Licia Troisi (Italy)

•  A Treasury of Stories / Скарбничка історій, Volodymyr Arieniev / Володимир Арєнєв (Ukraine)
• Guia Pratico do Susto, Clara Cunha (Portugal)
• Le Jardin des chimères, Johan Heliot (France)
• The Die Nebel von Walhalla series, Barbara Schinko (Austria)
• Imperiets Arvingar: Fängelseflykten / Children of the Phoenix: Prison Break, Oskar Källner, illustrated by Karl Johnsson (Sweden)

Best Internet Publication

• WINNER: History of Ukrainian SF&F (Ukraine)

• cons.ie (Ireland)
• Cuentos para Argernon (Spain)
• CzaPa Kulturalna, Paweł Majka and Cezary Zbierzchowski (Poland)
• Fabrica do Terror (Portugal)
• Fantasy Magazine (Italy)
• Geek Culture Quiz (Finland)
• Mora FM (Croatia)
• Quarante-Deux (France)
• Rezensionsnerdista, Yvonne Tunnat (Germany)

Best Dramatic Presentation

• WINNER: Maksym Osa (Ukraine)

• To The Waters and The Wild, Aduantas (Ireland)
• Hatching, Hanna Bergholm and Ilja Rautsi (Finland)
• Strappare lungo i bordi, Zero Calcare (Italy)
• Parallèles, Anastasia Heinzl and Quoc Dang Tran (France)
• Rubikon, Magdalena Lauritsch (Austria)
• Noviembre Nocturno (Spain)

The Chrysalis Award:

• Anouck Faure (France)
• Lea Katarina Gobec, aka Sintarija (Croatia)
• Łukasz Kucharczyk (Poland)
• Myriam M. Lejardi (Spain)
• Natalia Matolinets/Наталія Матолінець (Ukraine)
• Jacqueline Mayerhofer (Austria)
• Aiki Mira (Germany)
• Laura Silvestri (Italy)
• Derek Ugochukwu (Ireland)

John-Henri Holmberg was honored as European Grandmaster.

Winners were announced during Eurocon 2023 in Uppsala, Sweden. For more information, see the ESFS website.

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