2022 Hall of Fame Awards – Nominations

Best Artist

Nominee	Nominating country	Nominee country	Description	url
Peter Stanimirov	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Peter Stanimirov is among the most prominent Bulgarian artists. He’s done covers and illustrations for a lot of genre fiction and choose-your-own-adventure books. He's been the Art Director of game studio Haemimont and frequently does covers for children books but also a lot of horror works. His recent work centers around graphic novels, including an adaptation of “Ring of the Nibelungs”.
Igor Kordej	Croatia	Croatia	Igor Kordej is legendary comic book artist, illustrator and graphic designer from Croatia. He was a moving force behind Novi Kvadrat, a group that shaped Comic book scene in Yugoslavia and Croatia, and he made his name as a designer of music album covers.He worked for Dark Horse, Heavy Metal Magazine, Marvel comics and Delcourt, and he was even knighted for his work (Ordre des arts et des lettres)
Alain Brion	France	France	Since 1997, Alain Brion worked for the main French publishers. He creates stunning covers and illustrations, for science fiction and fantasy books. He won two Best Artist French awards (Prix Wojtek Siudmak du graphisme and Imaginales).
Timo Kümmel	Germany	Germany	Timo is a visually powerful pillar of German speculative fiction, covering science fiction, fantasy and horror.Working with many publishers for two decades, his visionary panoramas have unfolded and his illustrations have carried us to strange worlds.He was nominated for all major German genre awards and has been awarded the prestigious Kurd Laßwitz Preis for best science fiction graphics twice.
Ciaraíoch (Ciara Kenny)	Ireland	Ireland	Ciara Kenny, also known as Ciaraíoch, is a Kerry based cartoonist and illustrator. She is known for her illustrations of Irish nature, history, mythology, with an emphasis on women.
Nora 'Nono' Back	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Nora is Luxembourgish, currently living in Germany. She finished school in Luxembourg and signed up for a further two years of studying animation, then graduated from Filmakademie Baden Württemberg with an animation diploma in 2018. She has been living in Stuttgart, working as a freelance artist and animator since.e
Roch Urbaniak	Poland	Poland	In 2011 he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. His art is inspired by his travels, myths, legends, and popculture. He used his art in the comics and in two children’s books from “Papiernik” cycle.His paintings have been exhibited around the world, e.g. in Taiwan, USA, and in Europe. He is the author of covers for a few novels and SFF magazines.
Adrian Chifu	Romania	Romania	Adrian Chifu is the artist who designs most of the covers for the Romanian magazines such as Helion, Galaxia42, UtopIQa, CSF. He also designed the covers for several books, including „Fata de pe drumul mătăsii” (The girl on the Silk Road) by Liviu Surugiu and „Almanahul UtopIQa” (The UtopIQa Almanac).
Emma Ríos	Spain	Spain	Emma Ríos Maneiro is a Spanish comic artist, writer, and editor with an international presence in the comic's industry. She has worked for some of the largest American comics publishers, including Marvel, Image, and Boom! Studios. In 2020, Ríos published Pretty Deadly and was awarded the Eisner Award as cover artist, which makes her an outstanding candidate.
Oleh Kinal	Ukraine	Ukraine	Oleh Kinal is artist and graphic designer from Ternopil. He creates book covers for Ukrainian editions of Dan Simmons, Charles Stross, China Mieville, Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Douglas Adams and others. He also creates book covers for Ukrainian authors such as Serhii Ukhachevskiy, Valentyn Terletskiy, Volodymyr Bilinskiy and others.

Best Author

Nominee	Nominating country	Nominee country	Description	url
Katharina Köller	Austria	Austria	“Was ich im Wasser sah” is a book of magic realism and winner of the “Phantastikpreis der Stadt Wetzlar” (a major award on speculative fiction in German language). It tells the story of a cancer survivor returning to her home on a Mediterranean island. It is an ecological thriller with elements of both folklore myths and speculative fiction.
Nikolay Peev	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Nikolay Peev is a Bulgarian Fiction author and an active attorney-at-law. His debut novel “Day of the Invict” was nominated for “Favorite book of Bulgaria” in 2016. “The Interview” – a modern thriller – is his second acclaimed book, addressing the inclusion of Universal Basic Income in Europe. “Seven writers in space” is his love letter to classics such aa “Alien”, “Solaris” and “Event Horizon”.
Tatjana Jambrišak	Croatia	Croatia	You could say that Tatjana single handedly pushed Croatian Science fiction from 20th to 21st century and you would not be far from the truth. Writer, poet, translator, artist, publisher, con runner - she had tremendous influence and shaped the Croatian fandom and genreHer stories and poetry won multiple national awards and her style and themes were inspiration for generations of writers
Philippe Curval	France	France	French SF writer, journalist and photograph (1929-). Since 1960, Philippe Curval is one of the most eminent French science fiction writers. He wrote more than 100 short stories and 40 novels, some translated in 14 countries. He still published new novels now.He is also known for his works of science fiction criticism and as an editor. Link
Theresa Hannig	Germany	Germany	Theresa continuously publishes sf novels since 2016. She is committed and argumentative, yet remains fair.Overall, she has rendered outstanding services to the genre, both internally and externally. She was involved as a lecturer in the "Future Life" project of the Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar and in the "Future Work" project of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Ruth Long	Ireland	Ireland	Ruth Long writes fantasy under the names of Ruth Frances Long, R. F. Long, and Jessica Thorne. In 2015 her novel "A Crack in Everything" was the co-winner of the ESFS Award for Children's Fiction
Francesco Verso	Italy	Italy	Francesco Verso is a multiple-award Italian SF writer and editor. He published: Antidoti umani, e-Doll, Nexhuman, Bloodbusters, Futurespotting and I camminatori (made of The Pulldogs and No/Mad/Land). His books have been published in Italy, US, UK and China. He works as publisher of Future Fiction publishing the best SF in translation from +10 languages and +35 countries.
Claude Peiffer	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Claude Peiffer is a long time science fiction fan who turned to writing in the 1990s. His fanzine 'Sternenstaub' is well respected and his current oeuvre is Cerateran, in which he has published the Hammanon-Trilogy and which he continues to explore.
Florin Purluca	Romania	Romania	Florin Purluca is a young but very prolific author of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with more than 15 volumes published and numerous short stories published in Romanian and international anthologies and magazines, including The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Vol.IV). He also writes comic strips scripts, and he collaborated with graphic designer Daniel Danil for the 1944 comics book.
José Antonio Cotrina	Spain	Spain	José Antonio Cotrina is an amazing Spanish author. He writes all three genres, mostly dark fantasy, but also science fiction and horror. His works are recognizable thanks to an exquisite style and an imaginative world. In 2020, Cotrina published a novella, “Fractal” and one of his best works, “The Red Moon Cycle”, was published in USA in the same year.

Best Publisher

Nominee	Nominating country	Nominee country	Description	url
Ohneohren	Austria	Austria	The publishing house Ohneohren, founded in 2013 by Ingrid Pointecker is spezialized in speculative fiction. A focus is on so called “unpopular” topics and on supporting female authors.
Artline Studios	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Artline Studios is a Bulgarian publisher, focused mainly on fantasy, sci-fi, comics, YA and historical fiction. In their portfolio you can find authors such as Brandon Sanderson, Neil Gaiman, Becky Chambers and Patrick Ness. Artline takes pride in its work and is well known for making unique editions of their books, assembled and painted by hand and using materials such as wood and leather.
Hangar 7	Croatia	Croatia	This is a go to publisher for QUALITY genre. Maintaining a balance between popular titles and less known classics, Hangar 7 brings translations from broad range of languages to Croatia. Currently it runs a project " European Speculative Fiction – Past, Present, Future " where it translates award winning authors including those from Czechia, Itay and France.
Mnémos	France	France	Vibrant & pioneer, this independant publishing house for +25 years publishes mainly French & US authors, but also Cuban, Spanish, Swedish or Italian: more than 300 science fiction, fantasy and alternate history books, new voices and classics texts. Some collections focus on art books, classics complete works or collective works of authors and artists on fictional worlds.
Plan9 Verlag/ Sandra Thoms	Germany	Germany	Almost from scratch, a very interesting science fiction program was created within a short time that includes both novels and anthologies. Sub genres include AI, Space Opera, and Military SF. Publisher Sandra Thoms shows that she cares a lot about the genre. She states that Plan9 publishes stories which break through common notions of society and open visions on worlds that could be.
The Swan River Press	Ireland	Ireland	The Swan River Press is Ireland's only publishing house dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange and supernatural
Edizioni Hypnos	Italy	Italy	Edizioni Hypnos is an independent press focusing on weird and fantastic literature. It exist from 2010 with the Library of the Imaginary series, dedicated to the recovery of fantastic classic texts. Hypnos magazine was published starting from 2013, while the Modern Weird series was published in 2015, with which it opened up also to contemporary fantastic genre.
Kremart Edition	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Kremart is the first Luxembourgish publisher to venture into Science Fiction since OpDerLay in the 1970s.
Copernicus Corporation	Poland	Poland	An RPG publishing house established by Barbara and Andrzej Karlicki in 1995. First release: “Cyberpunk 2020” (1995). “Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay” (2005) quickly became an entry point for countless Polish RPG fans. Portfolio includes Polish dark fantasy RPG “Klanarchia”, “WH40K Dark Heresy”, “Age of Sigmar: Soulbound” and “WH40K: Wrath & Glory.”, also Warhammer fiction and “Lone Wolf” gamebooks.
Grup editorial Art (Arthur, Grafic, Paladin)	Romania	Romania	Art editorial group includes the Arthur, Grafic and Paladin imprints. Arthur is dedicated to children’s books, including Fantasy illustrated works, including Romanian authors such as Adina Rosetti. Paladin is the imprint dedicated to Science Fiction that owns the publication rights for Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Poul Anderson, Pierce Brown, Ray Bradbury, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke etc.

Best Promoter

Nominee	Nominating country	Nominee country	Description	url
The Team of ShadowDance	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	ShadowDance is a genre media with 20+ years of history. Its team is very active on the fandom scene with many organized competitions, writing and worldbuilding workshops, awards, festivals, talks on genre fiction at popular events, etc. Team members actively promote the social value of science fiction, also running a SFF university course and self publishing platform for young authors and artists.
Xavier Dollo	France	France	Bookseller, author, editor, speaker at the University of Rennes 2 on the history of imaginary literatures, Xavier Dollo is a lover of books, which he likes to promote and now publish (Argyll publishing house) as much as reading or writing.He just wrote "The History of Science FictionA Graphic Novel Adventure" in French, and translated last year in english, a major work on our genre origins.
Udo Klotz	Germany	Germany	Since 1991, Udo is trustee of Germany’s most prestigious sf award, the Kurd Laßwitz Preis. He earned maximum respect from pros as well as from fans for the calm, objective, and reliable way he fulfills this key role. Moreover, Udo is a connector for the German sf scene, editing fanzines, running a monthly gathering in Munich, and actively participating in national and international sf conventions.
Margit S. Sárdi	Hungary	Hungary	Margit Sárdi is the most influential organizer and literary historian of Hungarian science fiction. She launched a groundbreaking seminar about the genre theory and Hungarian history of science fiction at 1992, later founded the Society of Hungarian Science Fiction History, and played an active role in the foundation of the Department of Science Fiction at Hungarian Writers Association in 2006.
Raissa Perez	Ireland	Ireland	Raissa Perez is the chair of Octocon, the Irish National Science Fiction convention. At a time when many conventions struggled, Raissa move Octocon online and not only encouraged regular attendees to attend the virtual con but also recruited new guests and members from inside and outside Ireland. The next Octocon will be held at Croke Park, a large venue which gives the con room to expand.
Gérard Kraus	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Gérard Kraus has been actively organizing in the fan community since 1995, starting in gaming, but quickly expanding to media and literature fandom. In 2014 his team and him launched LuxCon, Luxembourg's first big fan convention.
Constantin D. Pavel	Romania	Romania	Constantin Pavel is the owner and director of PavCon Editing House. Throughout his entire activity, Constantin Pavel dedicated all his resources to promote the Romanian Science Fiction. The PavCon Editing House holds a portfolio of about 150 Romanian SF and Fantasy books, and also features a bimonthly printed magazine, „CSF Colecția Science-Fiction” and a yearly anthology.
Juan José Parera	Spain	Spain	Juan José Parera is one of the most hard-working promoters of Science Fiction in Spain. He works with Pórtico to host the Ignotus Awards, which are usually called “The Spanish Hugos”. Also, he single-handedly assembled and maintains the Spanish Science Fiction, Fantasy and Terror Archive, a collection of thousands of books, magazines and other materials which is kept in the Complutense University.
Yuri Shevela	Ukraine	Ukraine	Yuri is a Chief of Science Fiction and Space Memorabilia Collection of Serhii Korolyov Space Flights Musem in Zhytomyr and organizes many SF&F and Space related events in Kyiv and across. In addition, he is an outstanding bibliographer of Ukrainian science fiction and fantasy. YouTube Livejournal
The Glasgow 2024 Promotions Team	United Kingdom	United Kingdom	Meg MacDonald and Matt Calvert are the Co-Division Heads for Glasgow 2024 Promotions Team

Best Magazine

Nominee	Nominating country	Nominee country	Description	url
Dracus	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	A semi-annual magazine encouraging and promoting young writers in the SFFH field. It publishes mostly short fiction, both original and classic, along with a companion book series. The team regularly organizes contests for fiction short stories and publishes the winning works. It’s been around for 10 years and also features a companion book series with longer fiction works under the same brand.
Gandahar	France	France	Gandahar is a quaterly magazine, published since 2014 by Jean-Pierre Fontana and Christine Brignon. They published illustrated short stories in each issue. They promote acclaimed French writers, such as Christine Renard and Nathalie Henneberg. Link
Phantastisch!/ Klaus Bollhöfener	Germany	Germany	For over 20 years, Phantastisch! has managed to reliably publish an issue every 3 months. It is always full with informative articles about the latest trends in SF, horror, and fantasy in book, film, and comic, including interviews with interesting people, e.g. international authors who have just published, lots of reviews, and essays. It features recent news as well as insights on genre history.
Sci Phi Journal - A Universe of Wonder	Hungary	Belgium	Sci Phi Journal is a unique online SF magazine the only dedicated to exploring the intersection between philosophy and speculative fiction, it features original fiction, essays by practitioners of the philosophical SF field, and quarterly issues to new literary voices from all around Europe. The magazine run by a group of volunteers, and edited by Ádám Gelencsér and Mariano Martín Rodríguez.
Fantasy Magazine	Italy	Italy	One of the most magazine and source information for Fantasy in Italy
UtopIQa	Romania	Romania	UtopIQa is a Romanian online magazine dedicated to literature and visual arts. It features essays on art and social reflections, interviews with authors, book chronicles, but also prose and photographic art. Keeping the three months cadence, there were 4 issues released in 2021, the nominated one being the last one.
Opportunity	Spain	Spain	“Opportunity” is a Science fiction, Fantasy, and Terror magazine. It’s a digital publication, free for all the readers. It also prints one yearly compilation only for Portico’s members. It is promoted by Portico and selected by Bruno Puelles & Giny Valrís. The magazine aims to promote the Spanish genre by publishing short-stories, illustrations and non-fiction articles, especially by new creators.

Best Translator

Nominee	Nominating country	Nominee country	Description	url
Bernhard Strobel	Austria	Austria	In a far future when China rules the rules the world, a group of female scientists explores Norwegians past in the novel “Femina erecta”. Berhard Strobel translated this novel from the Norwegian language written by Jan Kjærstad. The translator earned the “Österreichischen Staatspreis für literarische Übersetzung“ (= Austrian National Award for Literal Translation) in 2021.
Elena Pavlova	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Elena Pavlova is a genre translator as well as a prolific SFF author and editor. She has translated Isaac Asimov, Roger Zelazny, Alastair Reynolds, Paolo Bacigalupi, R.Howard and E. R. Burroughs, V. E. Schwab, Peter Watts, and many others, including children SFF authors like MIchael Poore, Frances Hardinge and Geoff Rodkey. She is also the winner of the ESFS Best Work for Children award in 2021.
Gilles Goullet	France	France	Gilles Goullet (b. 1967) has translated from english for 20 years now, more than 35 books & about 60 shorter texts, SF & fantasy. He won the 2010 Jacques Chambon awards. He is the faithful French voice of Robert Charles Wilson, Peter Watts, Ian MacDonald, Jeff Vandermeer & Cory Doctorow (he likes challenges), & more recently, Arkady Martine, Kameron Hurley, Annalee Newitz & Elly Bangs.
Bernhard Kempen	Germany	Germany	Since decades, Bernhard has translated a large number of the English-language SF for almost all major publishers. His approach follows the question: "How would authors have written the story if German were their mother tongue?" Outstanding works include Morgan’s “Thin Air”, Leckie’s “Imperial Radch”, McDonald’s “River of Gods”, “Dune” prequels, and, German in 2021, Scalzi’s "The Interdependency".
Jack Fennell	Ireland	Ireland	Jack Fennell is an Irish writer, editor, translator and researcher. He is the editor of "A Brilliant Void" and "It Rose Up", collections of "lost" Irish science fiction and fantasy, a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. As part of these collections he has translated stories written in Irish to English, bringing them to a wider audience.
Gabriella Gregori	Italy	Italy	Gabriella is a long time translator of Science Fiction from English to Italian (for indipendent publishers like Future Fiction)
Guy Berg	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Guy Berg has translated some Harry Potter books and most recently Stanislaw Lem's 'How Erg the Self-inducting Slew a Paleface' to Luxembourgish.
Antuza Genescu	Romania	Romania	Antuza Genescu is a romanian translator and anthologist. She has a portfolio of more than 30 translated novels and several short story collections. Her translations include The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders, Stardust by Isaac Asimov, The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb, The calculating stars by Mary Robinette Kowal and many others.
Manu Viciano	Spain	Spain	Manu Viciano is a mathematician and translator from Valencia, Spain. His work has been remarkable in the last years, mostly thanks to his excellent translations from authors like Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie or Jay Kristoff. In 2020, he translated simultaneously “The rhythm of war”, by Brandon Sanderson.
Bohdan Stasiuk	Ukraine	Ukraine	Ukrainian translator, candidate of philological sciences. Bohdan translated many outstanding science fiction writers into Ukrainian. He has translated authors such as Ray Bradbury, Michael Swanwick, Charles Stross, Jeffrey Ford, Donna Tartt and many others. Facebook

* The nomination of Veiko Belials in this category was declined by the nominee