As part of the closing ceremony of TitanCon, which was also this year’s Eurocon, the annual European Science Fiction Society Awards were presented. Swedish fan and ESDS chair Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf managed to hand out a not small number of awards in just about 20 minutes, which must be a record of some kind.
Croatia won two awards this time: Dalen Belić got the Chrysalis Award, which is an ESFS encouragement award for people just starting out on their careers and my friend Petra Bulić won for Best Promotor. It was an awesome ending to two fandom weeks.
The full list of award winners
European Grand Master : Ian McDonald (United Kingdom)
HALL OF FAME
Best Author : Charles Stross (United Kingdom)
Best Artist Nicolas FRUCTUS (France)
Best Magazine : WINDUMANOTH (Spain)
Best Publisher : Future Fiction (Italy)
Best Promoter : Petra Bulić (Croatia)
Best Translator : Mihai-Dan Pavelescu (Romania)
The ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS:
Best Work of Fiction : The Spire Trilogy, by Laurent GENEFORT (France)
Best Work of Art : Daniel Egneus’ Cover for Neil Gaiman (Sweden)
Best Fanzine : Find a Lumberjack/НайдиЛесоруба (Russia)
Best Internet Publication, other than a fanzine : ORIGEN CUÁNTICO (Spain)
Best Dramatic Presentation : Game of Thrones (Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Spain, United Kingdom)
Best Work For Children : Begone the Raggedy Witches by Celine Kiernan (Ireland)
The CHRYSALIS AWARDS
Croatia : Dalen Belić
France : Floriane SOULAS
Ireland : Sarah Davis Goff
Italy : Franci Conforti
Russia : Andrey Kokoulin / Андрей Кокоулин
Spain : MAR GOIZUETA
Sweden : Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén
Ukraine : Svitlana Taratorina
Congratulations to all the winners!
