2021 Hall of Fame Awards – Nominations

Best Artist

Nominee	Nominating Country	Nominee Country	URL	Description
Peter Stanimirov	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	https://tinyurl.com/76rzpaxn	Peter Stanimirov is one of the most prominent Bulgarian artists. He has done covers and illustrations for a lot of genre fiction and has an illustrious career with doing cover work for choose-your-own-adventure books, while also creating a publishing house for publishing them. He's been the Art Director of the local game studio Haemimont and also frequently does children books...[more on link]
Philippe CAZA	France	France	https://www.noosfere.org/livres/auteur.asp?numauteur=947&Niveau=illus	CAZA (1941-) began in 1970 in comics and drew many iconic SF covers.He also worked on the animated films Gandahar and The Rain Children.A long time SF fan, he conceived the Rosny awards trophies and often gave drawings or conceived posters for conventions, fanzines & fandom. EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caza More on https://www.facebook.com/CazaPhilippeHis complete SF covers work below:
Iain Clark	Ireland	United Kingdom	https://iainjclarkart.com	Iain Clark created many of the stunning promotional artworks used for the Dublin 2019 WorldCon, and for the bid to host the 2024 WorldCon in Glasgow, Scotland. He created the wraparound cover of the Dublin 2019 Souvenier Book. He was nominated in the Best Fan Artist Category for the 2020 Hugo Awards. He won a BSFA in 2021 for "Shipbuilding Over the Clyde".
Magali Villeneuve	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	http://www.magali-villeneuve.com/	Magali Villeneuve is an illustrator/Concept artist. She now works for many different companies and publishing houses around the world, including Hasbro (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and DragonsHer work has been featured in role-playing games, video games, collectible cards, magazines, book covers…She is also the author of the dark fantasy book series La Dernière Terre (Line of Descent).
Piotr Cieśliński	Poland	Poland	https://www.facebook.com/DarkCrayonDesign	Piotr Cieśliński is a Polish graphic and illustrator. He is best known for the book covers that he created for a few Polish SFF publishers. Both the illustrations and cover designs he creates are astounding.His company is called Dark Crayon and many of his works can be seen on his FB and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dark.crayon/).
Adrian Chifu	Romania	Romania	www.youtube.com/user/luxaeterna00/videos	Adrian Chifu is a versatile artist, writer, composer, graphic artist, director, professional photographer. Member of the electronic music band Urban Experience Music albums in 1995 and 1997. Ambient & electronic music concerts every year (from 1995). Graphic exhibitions (from 1992). Illustrations, covers for magazines & books with sci-fi / fantasy themes. 2020-three concerts.
Eldar Zakirov / Эльдар Закиров	Russia	Russia	https://www.eldarzakirov.com	Zakirov is a digital artist and illustrator. In 2006 he was awardedthe Golfen Brush Award in Illustrator Future Contest. In recent years, he has actively collaborated with the magazines Analog and Asimov's Science Fiction. in 2018 and 2019, his covers for Asimov's Science Fiction were recognized by the readers of the magazine as the best over the past year.
Igor Baranko	Ukraine	Ukraine	https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/baranko_igor.htm http://www.comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=7560 https://uk.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Баранько_Ігор_В%27ячеславович http://baranko.blogspot.com/	Igor Baranko is an Ukrainian comic artist that published his graphic novels not only in his home country, but also in United States, France and some other countries. Not only he was published in these countries, but also lived there working with local comics artists. Now Igor lives in Thailand and is working on a comic strip based on the Indian epic Mahabharata.

Best Author

Nominee	Nominating Country	Nominee Country	URL	Description
Marc Elsberg	Austria	Austria	http://www.marcelsberg.com/buecher.php	After his past bestselling novels Marc Elsberg has released his novel “Gier”. People in the whole world are demonstrating against “greed” (what is actually the meaning of the title), as they demand a socially balanced system. And then it turns into a very exciting near-future future story!
Nikola Raykov	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	https://tinyurl.com/kr2bw374	Contemporary fantasy author who speaks the language of children. He became famous for his first of a kind gametales and is a winner of many awards for children books, including the "Magic Pearl" award voted by children. Mr.Raykov's books have been translated and published in different countries in the EU and China. His works are also available for free download at his website... [more on link]
Philippe Curval	France	France	http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?3341	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.https://www.noosfere.org/livres/auteur.asp?numauteur=209
Celine Kiernan	Ireland	Ireland	https://celinekiernan.wordpress.com/	Celine Kiernan is the award-winning author of several novels for young people, including "Into the Grey", which won the Children’s Books Ireland's Book of the Year Award, the Moorehawke trilogy, "Resonance", and the Wild Magic trilogy. The first book in the Wild Magic trilogy, "Begone the Raggedy Witches" won the ESFS Award for Children’s Literature in 2019.
Francesco Verso	Italy	Italy	www.futurefiction.org	Francesco Verso is a multiple-award SF writer and editor. He has published: Antidoti umani, e-Doll, Nexhuman, Bloodbusters and I camminatori. Nexhuman and Bloodbusters – translated by Sally McCorry – have been published in the US, UK and China. He's the editor of Future Fiction, a multicultural project dedicated to publishing the best World SF in translation.
Aliette de Bodard	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	https://aliettedebodard.com/	Aliette de Bodard writes speculative fiction: she has won three Nebula Awards, a Locus Award and four British Science Fiction Association Awards, and was a double Hugo finalist. Her most recent book is Fireheart Tiger (Tor.com), a sapphic romantic fantasy inspired by precolonial Vietnam, where a diplomat princess must decide the fate of her country, and her own. She lives in Paris.
Gheorghe Sasarman	Romania	Romania	http://www.gheorghe-sasarman.eu	Gheorghe Sasarman is one of the most prolific Romanian science fiction writers of all time. His representative work, Cuadratura Cercului (Squaring the Circle) published in 1978 has been translated into French, Spanish, German and English (by Ursula K. LeGuin). Many of his short stories have been translated in Hungarian, Russian, Italian, German, French, Serbian.
Victor Pelevin / Виктор Пелевин	Russia	Russia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pelevin	Pelevin wrote in various fantastic genres. In his work, you can find both mystical motivations, and works in the genre of anti-utopia and science fiction. Pelevin books have been translated into many languages. According to a French Magazine, Pelevin is among the 1,000 most significant people in the contemporary culture. His name is included in the list of nominees for the Nobel Prize.

Best Publisher

Nominee	Nominating Country	Nominee Country	URL	Description
Ohneohren	Austria	Austria	https://www.ohneohren.com/	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.
Colibri	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	https://tinyurl.com/ykfypyvf	One of the biggest Bulgarian publishing houses that has also been consistently great at publishing genre fiction, from Octavia Butler, Sheckley and Simak to Liu Cixin, Joe Abercrombie, Jim Butcher, Sapkowsky and Peter Brett. They have also ventured into more literary examples of genre fiction such as Haruki Murakami, J. G. Ballard and Viktor Pelevin... [more on link]
Shtriga	Croatia	Croatia	https://shtriga.com/	Shtriga is a small Croatian publishing house, with the aim to provide SF ebooks primarily by Croatian authors in English, sharing our stories with the rest of the world.They publish diverse stories in a wide array of sub-genres, local folklore from the Balkans through the eyes of modern writers with a horror twist, immersive serial novels ranging from magical postapocalypse to dieselpunk romance
Mnémos	France	France	https://www.mnemos.com/	Vibrant & pioneer, this independant publishing house for +25 years publishes mainly French & US authors, but also Cuban, Spanish, Swedish or Italian (Stefano Benni): more than 300 science fiction, fantasy and alternate history books, new voices and classics texts.Some collections focus on art books, patrimonial complete works or collective works of authors and artists on fictional worlds.
Little Island	Ireland	Ireland	https://littleisland.ie/	Little Island Books is an award-winning independent Irish publishing company. It publishes eight to ten books a year for children and young adults. It focuses on books by emerging Irish authors and books in translation. Speculative fiction books from Little Island include "Savage Her Reply", "Tangleweed and Brine", "Good Red Herring", and "Valentina".
Zona 42	Italy	Italy	http://www.zona42.it/	A fine selection of Science Fiction books edited by Giorgio Raffaelli.
Robert Gollo Steffen	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	https://opderlay.lu/main/produkt/robert-gollo-steffen-hrsg-der-himmel-auf-erden/	Robert 'Gollo' Steffen, is to date the only publisher to have ventured into publishing an SF anthology in Luxembourg.
Local Public Broadcaster Radio Bijelo Polje	Montenegro	Montenegro	http://www.refesticon.com/	Local public broadcaster Radio Bijelo Polje, Montenegro, since 2013 have special edition of Fantasy and SF and organize Regional Festival of Fantasy Literature REFESTICON. They published 9 anthologies of short stories by authors from 10 countries, 3 collections of stories by students from Montenegro and 7 collections and novels. And special edition the anthology Contemporary Montenegrin Fiction.
Pavcon	Romania	Romania	http://www.pavcon.ro	Pavcon – In 2016 Pavcon has founded the Science-Fiction Collection, publishing only Romanian authors. Distinguished in 2018, 2020 & 2021 with the ROMCON award for best sci -fi publishing house. Many of the published authors have been awarded with national prizes. In 2020 Pavcon has started a program for publishing Romanian authors on Amazon.
Azbooka / Азбука	Russia	Russia	https://azbooka.ru	The publishing group "Azbooka-Atticus" is included in the top 3 largest publishing houses in the territory of the Russian Federation.The publishing house has been on the market since 1993 and produces a variety of high-quality literature for children and adults under imprinted "Machaon", "Inostranka", "Kolibri", "Azbooka", "Azbooka-Classic".The publishing house publishes about 300 titles a year

Best Promoter

Nominee	Nominating Country	Nominee Country	URL	Description
The Team of ShadowDance	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	https://tinyurl.com/haj9k7my	The team organizes a variety of short story competitions, writing workshops, award ceremonies, festivals, lectures, quizzes, board game competitions, etc. The team are frequent lectors and reporters at events, promoting SFF in various culture contexts, including teaching SFF at Sofia University. They also do various intiatives to showcase young Bulgarian SFF authors and artists... [more on link]
Raymond Milési	France	France	https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Mil%C3%A9si	French SF writer, anthologist (Mouvances) & active fan for almost 40 years. He went to the 2nd French SF national convention (1975) & only missed 4 since!  Since 1988, he is responsible for the Rosny awards vote & guardian of their smooth running.He receives the Cyrano special award in 2018 in Amiens for his writings & his commitment to SF fandom and genre.EN: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6778
Margit S. Sárdi	Hungary	Hungary	https://sites.google.com/site/scifitort/home	Margit S. Sárdi is the most influential organizer and literary historian of Hungarian sci-fi. She organized university seminars about the theory and Hungarian history of science fiction from 1992. She founded the Society of Hungarian Science Fiction History (Magyar Scifitörténeti Társaság, MASFITT) in 2003. Until 2018, she was a juror of Zsoldos Péter-award (Hungarian national sci-fi award).
Flora Staglianò	Italy	Italy	http://ds1.it/	Deep Space 1 – Flora Staglianò: working for the fandom for more than 20 years!
Gérard Kraus	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	www.luxcon.lu	Gérard Kraus has been the driving force behind Luxembourg's fandom since the mid-90s.
Vanja Kranjčević	Montenegro	Croatia		Vanja Kranjčević from Zagreb is a Convention Leader of the Zagreb Science Fiction Convention SFERAKON and Secretary of the Sfera Association. Long-term member of the ESFS, a participant in conventions in the region and Europe. Participant in numerous Eurocons. She is a translator and promoter of SF.
Mirosław "Xaric" Kowalski	Poland	Poland		Mirosław is a spiritus movens of Avangarda Society in Warsaw. They started collaboration when the society formed in 2005. He was a board member for both Avangarda and ZSFP (Societies’ Assoctaion Polish Fandom). He was in concom at many conventions including four Polcons (Polish natcons). For many years he was a member of the nominations committee for Janusz A. Zajdel Award.
Vasiliy Vladimirskiy / Василий Владимирский	Russia	Russia	https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Владимирский,_Василий_Андреевич	One of the main literary critic, journalist, editor. Member of the organizing committees of SF conventions, member of the nomination commissions of a number of genre awards.

Best Magazine

Nominee	Nominating Country	Nominee Country	URL	Description
Dracus	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	https://tinyurl.com/4v79jxh9	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 organizes regularly contents for fiction short stories and publishes the winners of the contest... [more on link]
Gandahar	France	France	www.gandahar.net/actualités/revue/	Gandahar is a quaterly magazine, published since 2014 by Jean-Pierre Fontana and Christine Brignon. They published illustrated short stories.https://www.noosfere.org/livres/niourf.asp?numlivre=2146621030
Fantasy Magazine	Italy	Italy	https://www.fantasymagazine.it/	One of the leading Italian magazines publishing daily information and resources on Fantasy, edited by Emanuele Manco
Helion	Romania	Romania	www.helionsf.ro	Helion is a distinguished SF magazine, published by Helion Club Timisoara. In recent years, six printed issues were published annually, in A4 format. Some of its long-standing columns are Laborator SF (SF Lab), Cronica de familie (Family Review) Alternative (Alternatives), Meridian SF (SF Meridian), Fototeca (Photo Gallery), Pe scurt despre proza scurtă (Short Fiction – in Short).
Mir Fantastiki / Мир фантастики	Russia	Russia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Fantastiki	A monthly Russian magazine and portal about fantasy and science fiction. Published since September 2003 and is the largest science fiction magazine in the former USSR. The publication reviews books, movies, TV series, games and comics in such genres as science fiction, fantasy and horror, publishes articles about fictional universes, famous science fiction, fandom, mythology and futurology.

Best Translator

Nominee	Nominating Country	Nominee Country	URL	Description
Elena Pavlova	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	https://tinyurl.com/37975ssc	Elena Pavlova is a genre translator, as well as a prolific SFF author with a 30 year career. She has translated Isaac Asimov, Roger Zelazny, Alastair Reynolds, Paolo Bacigalupi, R.Howard and E. R. Burroughs, Peter Watts, and others. She is also the winner of many awards and a frequent lector at festivals and international conferences, most recently at Eurocon 2020... [more on link]
Adrian Cvitanović	Croatia	Croatia	http://www.dhkp.hr/drustvo/clan/756	Adrian Cvitanović translates from Polish, and he won Translator of the year award for 2020.He translated about 20 books from Polish to Croatian and several hundred articles and essays. His last gig was translation of 3 books of Stanislav Lem for Croatian publisher Hangar7: Fairy Tales of Robots, Futurologic congress, and collection Star Diaries.
Jacques Barbéri	France	France	https://www.noosfere.org/livres/auteur.asp?numauteur=1473&Niveau=livres	Celebrated author in his own right since the seventies and musician, he also translates many Italian SF authors into French (Valerio Evangelisti, Vittorio Catani, Nicoletta Vallorani, Luca Masali, Silvana De Mari, etc.).
Silvia Castoldi	Italy	Italy	https://lanotadeltraduttore.it/it/autori/traduttori/silvia-castoldi	Long-time translator of Science Fiction, whose works include books by Ian McDonald, Robert Heinlein, John Shirley and Karl Schroeder.
Goran Skrobonja	Montenegro	Serbia	http://www.goranskrobonja.com/	Skrobonja lives and works in Belgrade, he has translated more than 150 titles from English into Serbian. He has translated stories and novels by numerous writers of genre literature, among whom, in addition to Stephen King, Clive Barker, James Herbert, Dan Simons, Ian MacDonald, and Michael Marshall Smith stand out. Among the latest translations are Adrian Tchaikovsky's books Children of Time.
Silviu Genescu	Romania	Romania	https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silviu_Genescu	Silviu Genescu (b. 13.09.1958) is a Romanian author & translator. His first translation from English into Romanian was Sam Lundwall’s Alice’s World, published in the Almanahul Anticipația, 1986. Since then, he signed translations of novels by George R.R. Martin (two of GOT novels), Lucius Shephard, Vernor Vinge, Michael A. Stackpole, James Patterson, N.K. Jemisin.
Serhiy Legeza / Сергій Легеза	Russia	Ukraine	https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Легеза_Сергій_Валерійович	For a great contribution to the promotion of Polish fiction.He translated from Polish into Ukrainian the works of Andrzej Sapkowski and Jacek Dukaj, from Polish into Russian the works of Andrzej Sapkowski, Jacek Dukaj, Jakub Nowak, Jacek Pekara, Robert Schmidt, Robert Wegner, and Stanislaw Lem.
Serhiy Legeza / Сергій Легеза	Ukraine	Ukraine	https://www.fantlab.ru/translator6044 https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7015260.Sergey_Legeza	Serhiy translated a huge number of works of contemporary Polish science fiction writers into Ukrainian and Russian. Thanks to him, Ukrainian and Russian readers were able to get acquainted with the best modern Polish science fiction writers.