2024 ESFS Awards Winners
The European Science Fiction Society (ESFS) announced the Hall of Fame Awards, Achievement Awards, and winners of the Chrysalis Awards for emerging talent.
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)
Ian Watson (UK) was honored as European Grandmaster.
Winners were announced at Erasmuscon, held August 16-19, 2024 in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. For more information, see the ESFS website.
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