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2008
Eurocon 2008:
Moscow, Russia


HALL OF FAME

Best Author:

Alexander Gromov (Russia)

Best Translator: Michael Kandel (USA/UK) and Lyubomir Nikolov (Bulgaria)
Best Promoter: Russell T. Davies (UK)
Best Magazine:

FANtastica (Russia)

Best Publisher: InfoDar (Bulgaria)
Best Artist: Roman Papsuev (Russia)

 

 

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS:

- Nika Rakitina (Belarus)
- Georgy Karadjov (Bulgaria)
- Josef Antal (Hungary)
- Helena Ziemane (Latvia)
- Vladimir Danikhnov (Russia)
- Marina Sokolyan (Ukraine)

Spirit of Dedication Award:

Fanzine: Konetz Epochi / End of Age (Russia)
Ken Slater (UK)
Judit Trethon (Hungary)


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2007
Eurocon 2007:
Copenhagen - Denmark


HALL OF FAME

Best Author:

Sandor Szelesi (Hungary)
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sheenard

Best Translator: Richard Podaný (Czech Republic)
http://interkom.scifi.cz/whosf/podric.htm
Best Promoter: Nikolay Makarovsky (Ucraina)
Best Magazine:

Robot (Italy)
http://www.delosstore.it/riviste/scheda.php?id=51

Best Publisher: Eksmo (Russia)
http://www.eksmo.ru/eng/ourbooks/
Best Artist: Vladimir Bondar (Russia)
http://vladio.com.ua/en/
 

 

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS:

Anna Kantoch (Poland)
Dmitriy Gluhovsky (Russia)
Heidun Jänchen (Germany)
Petar Kopanov (Bulgaria)
F. Tóth Benedek (Hungary)
Mikhail Nazarenko (Ukraine)
Lucie Lukacovicova (Czech Republic)
Lene Fagerlund Larsen (Denmark)

HONORARY AWARD European Grand Master:

Johannes H. Berg (Norvey)

Spirit of Dedication Award:

Fanzine: Science Fiction, a cura di Knud Larn (Denmark)
Artist: Ulrik Kristiansen (Denmark)

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2006
Eurocon 2006:
Kiev - Ukraine


HALL OF FAME

Best Author:

H.L.Oldie (Ukraine)
http://www.rusf.ru/oldie/

Best Translator: Asta Morkuniene aka Anita Kapociute (Lithuania)
Best Promoter: Vladimir Borisov (Russia)
http://bvi.livejournal.com/ (blog in Russian)
Best Magazine:

Mir Fantastiki (Russia)
http://www.mirf.ru/ and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Fantastiki

Best Publisher: Hekate (Latvia)
Best Artist: Robert Odegnal (Hungary)
http://landfantasy.free.fr/Auteurs%20O/Odegnal/odegnal.htm
Best Fanzine:

Shaltay-Boltay (Russia)
http://shaltay.mars-x.ru/ (in Russian)

Best author of performance: Alexei Fedorchenko (Russia), for The First Men on the Moon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_on_the_Moon

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS:

Sergey Slyusarenko - Ukraine
http://postum-main.livejournal.com/ (blog in Russian)
Camilla Wandahl - Denmark
Angelina Ilieva aka Johan Vladimir - Bulgaria
http://www.johanvladimir.com/s
Marian Coman - Romania
http://www.weblog.ro/maru (blog )
Jana Juzlova - Czech Republic
Yulia Galanina - Russia
http://yulgal.livejournal.com/ (blog in Russian)
Tamas Szalai-Koscis (Hungary)
Dmitri Gradinar (Moldova)
http://dolabrum.livejournal.com/ (blog in Russian)
Dusan Fabian (Slovakia)

HONORARY AWARD European Grand Master:

Harry Harrison (Ireland)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russia)

HONORARY AWARD

Exhibition company Medvin for the New Level of Eurocon.

SPECIAL MENTION

'The Essential Guide to SF' for coverage of European science fiction information.

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2005
Eurocon 2005:
Glasgow - Scotland


HALL OF FAME

Best Author: Marina and Sergey Dyachenko (Ukraine)
http://www.rusf.ru/english/marser/
Best Translator: Kees van Toorn (Netherlands)
Best Promoter: Alain le Bussy (Belgium)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Le_Bussy
Best Magazine: Galaktika (Hungary)
http://www.metagalaktika.hu/
Best Publisher: Nature (Henry Gee) (United Kingdom)
Best Artist: Sergey Poyarkov (Ukraine)
http://www.poyarkov.com/
Best Fanzine: ---
Best author of performance: ---

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS:

László Zoltán - Hungary
Martin Matuška - Slovakia
Wit Szostak - Poland
Tomáš Kucerovský - Czech Republic
Ilya Novak - Ukraine
Janus Andersen - Denmark

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2004
Eurocon 2004:
Plovdiv - Bulgaria


HALL OF FAME

Best Author: Nick Perumov (Russia)
http://www.perumov.com/eng/index.shtml
Best Translator: Vladimir Bakanov (Russia)
Best Promoter: Atanas Slavov (Bulgaria)
Best Magazine: Science Fiction Reality (Ukraine)
Best Publisher: Minotauro (Spain)
http://www.edicionesminotauro.com/
Best Artist: Otto Frello (Denmark)
http://www.ottofrello.dk/
Best Fanzine: Emitor (Serbia)
Best author of performance: Timur Bekmambetov and Sergey Lukyankenko (for the movie "Night Watch")
   

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS:

Brian Ronan Larson (Denmark)
Ivan Popov (Bulgaria)
Kirill Benediktov (Russia)
Martina Zrostlíková (Czech Republic)
Vladimir Arenev (Ukraine)
Yana Polevaya (Moldova)

HONORARY AWARDS:

Concatenation (UK) - http://www.concatenation.org/

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2003
Eurocon 2003:
Turku - Finland


HALL OF FAME

Best Author: Sergey Lukyanenko (Russia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lukyanenko
Best Translator: Michal Jakuszhewski (Poland); Rafael Marin (Spain)
Best Promoter: Ivan Krumov (Bulgaria)
Best Magazine: Galassia (Spain)
Best Publisher: Kuazar (Bulgaria) Nova (Poland)
Best Artist: Maurizio Manzieri (Italy)
http://www.manzieri.com/
Best Fanzine: Fanternet (Bulgaria)
   

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS:

Georgi Malinov (Bulgaria)
Viktor Tochinov (Russia)

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2002
Eurocon 2002:
Chotebor - Czech Republic


HALL OF FAME

Best Author: Valerio Evangelisti (Italy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerio_Evangelisti
Best Translator:  Paulina Braiter-Ziemkiewicz (Poland)
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulina_Braiter
Best Promoter: Yurii Ilkov (Bulgaria)
Best Journal: Fantazia (Slovakia)
http://www.fantazia.sk/
Best Publisher: Leonardo - Jiri Pilch (Czech Republic)
Best Artist: J.P. Krasny (Czech Republic)
http://patrik.scifi.cz/
Best Fanzine: Terra Fantastica (Bulgaria)
   

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS:

Alexander Karapanchev (Bulgaria)
Vitali Kaplan (Russia)
Alexandra Pavelkova (Slovakia)
Miroslav Zamboch (Czech Republic)

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2001
Eurocon 2001: Capidava - Romania
 


SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:

Sorin Repanovici (Romania)

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2000
Eurocon 2000:
Gdansk - Poland
 


HALL OF FAME

Best Author:   Ken MacLeod (UK)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_MacLeod
 Best Translator:  Rolf Andersen (Norway)
 Best Promoter:  Emanuel Ikonomov (Bulgaria)
 Best Journal:  Esli (Russia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esli
 Best Publisher:  Eide Forlag (Norway)
http://www.eideforlag.no/
 Best Artist:  Woytek Siudmak (Poland)
http://www.siudmak.fr/
 Best Fanzine:

 Miesiecznik (Poland)
http://www.skf.org.pl/mies.php

   

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS:

Anton Pervushkin (Russia)
Nikolay Tododov (Bulgaria)
Anna Lee (Ukraine)
Anna Brzezinska (Poland)
Liviu Radu (Romania)
Sabine Wedermeyer (Germany)

 

SOME DETAILS OF AWARD WINNERS


'Esli' is the only Russian SF magazine published in 2000. Publishes Russian, English language, and some other SF.

Emanuel Ikonomov. Born 1960 in Sofia. Translator, editor, critic, publisher, author. Founder of the New Bulgarian SF&F series. First SF translation 1979, story 1980.
Initially a promoter of foreign SF, he has now turned to promoting Bulgarian SF which has been neglected by publishers in the 1990s.

Nikolay Tododov. Born 1982 in Sofia. Already has had 2 stories published in magazines, and a third in the anthology 'Wonder Horizons'. Has translated English & Spanish works. Considered best young Bulgarian writer.

Eide Forlag. SF publisher in Norwegian. Has placed standard SF/Fantasy works on Norwegian on the market for the very first time.

Rolf Andersen. Translator bringing many classic, and leading edge, SF works into Norwegian for the very first time.

Ken MacLeod. Young Scottish author. The British Rafal Ziemkiewicz, except his politics areTrotskyite-come- Libertarian. Has won the Prometheus and BSFA Awards. Novels - The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, The Sky Road.

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UPDATED ON APRIL 29, 2006

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