Last Sunday at the 36th Eurocon, Shamrokon, in Dublin, the European Science Fiction Society announced the recipients of the 2014 ESFS Awards. It has taken me a while to blog about it – doing two cons in a week and a half with a husband and a four-year-old in tow and working half-time does not leave a lot of time for blogging. 🙂 I am very proud Croatia has taken two – a Spirit of Dedication for Ana Miljanic and Co for their adaptation of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and an Encouragement Award to the very talented Irena Hartmann whose Puppets you can read if you were lucky enough to get your hands on a special Worldcon/Eurocon edition of Parsek.
I am equally proud to have lost the title of best promoter of SF to Dave Lally. After all, am in very good company among the losers in this category! (And squeee! I did manage to chat to Brian Aldiss at Loncon and take some messages for the Istrakon people from him).
The winners of the the 2014 ESFS Awards are:
European Grand Master:
- Jim Fitzpatrick – Ireland
Hall of Fame:
- Best Author: Wolfgang Jeschke – Germany
- Best Artist: Jim Fitzpatrick – Ireland
- Best Publisher: Angry Robot – United Kingdom
- Best Magazine: Cosmoport – Belarus
- Best Translator: Ms. Kersti Juva – Finland
- Best Promoter of Science Fiction: Dave Lally – Ireland
These Awards are granted just once by the European Committee by secret ballot from the nominations submitted by the National Delegates.
Spirit of Dedication:
- Artist: Alexander Prodan – Ukraine
- Best Performance: Adaption of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog – Croatia
- Best SF Website: Geek Ireland – Ireland
- Best Fanzine: Darker – Russia
- Best creator of children’s science fiction or fantasy books:
- Oisín McGann* – Ireland
- Vladimir Arenev* – Ukraine
*A tie occurred and both creators are awarded.
Encouragement Awards
- Marco Rauch – Austria
- Victor Martinovich – Belarus
- Genoveva Detelinova – Bulgaria
- Irena Hartmann – Croatia
- Míla Linc – Czech Republic
- Anthea West – Ireland
- Robert M. Wegner – Poland
- Rui Alex – Portugal
- Eugen Cadaru – Romania
- ????? ????????/Roman Shmarakov – Russia
- Lenka Štiblaríková – Slovakia
- Igor Silivra – Ukraine
These Awards are granted according to the suggestions from the National Delegates to a young writer or artist from each European Country
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