2024 ESFS Awards Winners

Hall of Fame Awards

Best Author

• WINNER: Adrian Tchaikovsky (UK)

• Pierre Bordage (France)
• Guido Eekhaut (Belgium)
• Marc Elsberg (Austria)
• Lanfranco Fabriani (Italy)
• Vesela Flamburari (Bulgaria)
• Adnadin Jasarevic (Montenegro/Bosnia-Herzegovina)
• Igor Rendić (Croatia)
• Marina Tena (Spain)
• Maxime Weber (Luxembourg)

Best Artist

• WINNER: Iris Compiet (Netherlands)

• Вадим Антонюк/Vadym Antonyuk (Ukraine)
• Nora “Nono” Back (Luxembourg)
• benSwerk/S. Beneš, (Germany)
• Zbigniew Bielak (Poland)
• Claudio Castellini (Italy)
• Veselin Chakarov (Bulgaria)
• Libertad Delgado (Spain)
• Korina Hunjak (Croatia)
• Elena Vieillard (France)

Best Magazine

• WINNER: Phantastisch! (Germany)

• Dracus (Bulgaria)
• Droids & Druids Magazine (Spain)
• Fantasy Magazine (Italy)
• Gandahar (France)
• In Tenebris (Belgium)
• Morina Kutija (Croatia)

Best Publisher

• WINNER: Wydawnictwo IX (Poland)

• Ciela (Bulgaria)
• Local Public Broadcaster Radio Bijelo Polkje (Montenegro)
• Memoranda (Hardy Kettlitz) (Germany)
• Les Moutons électriques (France)
• Nakladatelství Epocha (Czech Republic)
• Obscura Editorial (Spain)
• Ohneohren (Austria)
• Swan River Press (Ireland)
• Vivat Publishing (Ukraine)
• Zona 42 (Italy)

Best Promoter

• WINNER: Brian Nisbet (Ireland)

• Barbra Bucci (Italy)
• Bookworm Dreams Youtube channel (Croatia)
• Stefan Cernohuby (Austria)
• The Citadelata Team (Bulgaria)
• Фантастичні talk(s)/Fantastic talk(s) Youtube channel (Ukraine)
• Udo Klotz (Germany)
• Viktoriya Lajoye & Patrice Lajoye (France)
• Cristina Macia (Spain)
• Dragic Rabrenovic (Montenegro)
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Society (or Gérard Kraus) (Luxembourg)
• Śląski Klub Fantastyki (Silesian SFF Club, ŚKF) (Poland)
• Heidi van der Vloet & Martijn Lindeboom (Netherlands)

Best Translator

• WINNER: Anna Gustafsson Chen (Sweden)

• Silvia Castoldi (Italy)
• Karen Gerwig (Ireland)
• Manuel de los Reyes García Campos (Spain)
• Hannes Riffel (Germany)
• Michel Pagel (France)
• Srebrenka Peregrin (Croatia)
• Богдан Стасюк/Bohdan Stasiuk (Ukraine)
• Yavor Tsanev (Bulgaria)

Achievement Awards:

Best Written Work of Fiction

• Hopeland, Ian McDonald (Ireland)

• Perry Rhodan: Atlantis, Anonymous, ed. (Germany)
• Intermnemosis, Celia Corral-Vázquez (Spain)
• “Het hart van de zomer” (“The Heart of the Summer”), Petra Doom (Belgium)
• Dark Woods, Deep Water, Jelena Dunato (Croatia)
• “Findungstag”,  Caroline Hofstätter (Austria)
• Vergruisde stemmen, Anthonie Holslag (Netherlands)
• Макс Кідрук (The Colony), Max Kidruk (Ukraine)
• Hunt, Emil Minchev (Bulgaria)
• Solar Punk,  Helle Perrier, ed. (Denmark)
• Rossignol, Audrey Pleynet (France)
• Anthology of Contemporary Balkan Fiction, Dragić Rabrenović, ed. (Montenegro)
• House of Open Wounds, Adrian Tchaikovsky (UK)
• Cosmopedia, Alessandro Vietti (Italy)
• Das Gangrän, Maxime Weber (Luxembourg)

Best Work of Art

• WINNER: Cover art for Slavic Supernatural by Antonio Filipović (Croatia)

• EuroCon 2022 Poster by Nora Back (Luxembourg)
• “Trinacria Station” by Franco Brambilla (Italy)
• Cover art for Colonies by Alain Brion (France)
• Map for Octocon 2023 by Jog Brogzin (Ireland)
• “Winter Dragon” by Sandy Butchers (Netherlands)
• Labyrinth Bestiary  by Iris Compiet (Netherlands)
• “Realms of Imagination” by Sveta Dorosheva (Ukraine)
• Cover art for Von Andromeda bis Uptopia by Reinhard Habeck (Austria)
• Illustrations for works by Joe Abercrombie by Taras Kopanskyi (Ukraine)
• Cover illustration for Die magische Bibliothek by Timo Kümmel (Germany)
• Cover art for The Phantom Self by Phillip Tzonkin (Bulgaria)
• Cover art for Bons Averanys by Marina Vidal (Spain)

Best Fanzine

• WINNER (tie): Aner Welten, Solarpunk special issue (Luxembourg)
• WINNER (tie): SF Forum 141 (Sweden)

• A&A 164 (France)
• Biały Kruk 24 (Poland)
• Das ist fantastisch! 6, Ukraine special issue (Ukraine)
• Faun 1 (Austria)
• HSF 2023-4 (Netherlands)
• I Kratko 7, AI special issue (Bulgaria)
• Svemirski Brod 15 (Croatia)
• Un’ambigua Utopia 13, Daniela Piegai special issue (Italy)
• Vampire of Late Capitalism 1 (Spain)

Best Work for Children

• WINNER: How to Bring the Bees Back?, Maya Bocheva (Bulgaria)

• Der Kleine Perry: Das Geheimnis des Wanderplaneten, Olaf Brill & Michael Vogt (Germany)
• Three Tasks for a Dragon, Eoin Colfer, illustrated by PJ Lynch (Ireland)
• MÉTO: Zones Noires, Yves Grevet (France)
• Superglitzer, Melanie Laibl (Austria)
• Sasha and Flint: A Magical Melody, Sandra Martins (Luxembourg)
• Leyendas del Recreo 4: Conspiración en las Sombra, Albert Monteys & El Hematocrítico (Spain)
• Il Miglio di Cenere, Dario Orillo (Italy)
• Den Elementen van Akiran, Ninja Paap-Luijten (Netherlands)
• Monsters en Mislukte Superhelden, Bart de Wolf (Belgium)

Best Internet Publication

• WINNER: Landing Zone Glasgow: The Glasgow 2024 Worldcon Blog (UK)

• Aner Welten (Luxembourg)
• Arkush (Ukraine)
• Citadelata (Bulgaria)
• Delos SF (Italy)
• El Caballero del Árbol Sonriente (Spain)
• Mora FM (Croatia)
• Phantastik-News by Guido Latz (Germany)
• Refesticon.com (Montenegro)

Best Dramatic Presentation

• WINNER: The Sorcery School: A Fantasy Musical (Bulgaria)

• Blasphemous 2 (Spain)
• Bod Obnovy (Czech Republic)
• Good Omens Season 2 (UK)
• Kommunioun (Luxembourg)
• Mars Express (France)
• Rubikon (Austria)
• Der Schwarm (Germany)
• Siccità (Italy)
• Star One: Revel in Time (Netherlands)

The Chrysalis Awards

• Finn Audenaert (Belgium)
• Lucio Besana (Italy)
• Marie Erikson (Germany)
• Ivana Geček (Croatia)
• Elitsa Hristova (Bulgaria)
• Marguerite Imbert (France)
• Nacho Iribarnegaray (Spain)
• Zuzana Johanovská (Czech Republic)
• Audrey Martin (Luxembourg)
• Ralph Alexander Neumüller (Austria)
• Сергій Пильтяй/Serhii Pyltiai (Ukraine)
• Courtney Smyth (Ireland)