2023 Chrysalis Awards – European Science Fiction Society

Nominee	Nominating country	Nominee country	Description
Jacqueline Mayerhofer	Austria	Austria	Jacqueline Mayerhofer just lately emerged in fandom with her outstanding cyberpunk novel “Our Mechanical Hearts”.
Lea Katarina Gobec, aka Sintarija	Croatia	Croatia	A very young and very talented Croatian illustrator, writer and book reviewer.
Anouck Faure	France	France	Anouck Faure, originally from New Caledonia, lives and works in Paris. Her practice revolves around ink drawing and etching, exploring the textures and richness of black and white. Since 2019, she has illustrated covers and interior pages of science fiction books and has just written her first novel. https://anouckfaure.com/a-propos/
Aiki Mira	Germany	Germany	Aiki entered the German science fiction scene in 2021 like a whirlwind. Aiki won both major German sf awards, co-published a highly recognized anthology combining text and graphical artwork, published 2 novels, 1 novella, 14 short stories, and 5 essays. And that’s just the beginning, we hope, as Aiki enriches the German sf landscape with fresh ideas written in an inspiring style.
Derek Ugochukwu	Ireland	Ireland	Derek Ugochukwu is a Nigerian writer, director and actor based in Ireland. His first film, "To All My Darlings" was released in 2021. His second film, "You're Not Home", about two refugee brothers who encounter a dark entity lurking in their asylum seeker accommodation, was nominated for the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards.
Laura Silvestri	Italy	Italy	Laura is a young talented writer that deals with SFF themes (ranging from cyberpunk to solarpunk) in a very ironic and orginal voice.
Łukasz Kucharczyk	Poland	Poland	Łukasz Kucharczyk is a young author and researcher. His debut genre book is a collection for short stories called “Granty i smoki” (Grants and Dragons). It is a comical fantasy about the PhD student of methodologies of barbaric sciences at the Greatly-heroic University of Kelt the Invincible. Connection of the academia and fantasy was appreciated by Polish readers.
Myriam M. Lejardi	Spain	Spain
Natalia Matolinets (Наталія Матолінець)	Ukraine	Ukraine	Natalia is the young adult writer from Lviv. https://www.facebook.com/nataly.matolinets https://www.instagram.com/nataly_matolinets https://vivat-book.com.ua/avtory/nataliya-matolinets/