European-Science-Fiction-Society-2019Societatea Europeană de Science Fiction este o organizație internațională a profesioniștilor din domeniul SF și a fanilor, care se angajează să promoveze Science Fiction-ul în Europa și Science Fiction-ul European la nivel mondial.

Organizația a fost înființată la prima convenție europeană de science fiction, Eurocon, care a avut loc în 1972 la Trieste, Italia. De atunci, organizația a organizat convențiile europene de science fiction (Eurocon) cel puțin o dată la doi ani. Organizația administrează, de asemenea, Premiile Europene pentru SF.

Criticul Cătălin Badea-Gheracostea trimite an de an propuneri pentru premiile Eurocon. Acestea sunt cele pentru anul 2019, preluate de noi din revista Gazeta SF.

Nominator Name Catalin Badea-Gheracostea
Nominator Country Romania
Nominator E-Mail catalin.bg@gmail.com
Best Artist Nominee Name George Munteanu
Nominee Country Romania
Information about the Nominee. Probably the `best kept secret` of Romanian art exports.
URL http://horheart.blogspot.ro/
Best Author Nominee Name Dănuț Ungureanu
Nominee Country Romania
Information about the Nominee. Since 1992, when winning what is today Chrysallis Award, Dănuț Ungureanu is the author with the largest span of published written works in the last years, short stories, novels and creative writing courses. He is also an accomplished journalist and travel writer. The Romanian fandom awarded Dănuț Ungureanu ALL of its awards in 2017, at the national, regional or the critique’s conventions.
URL https://danutungureanu.com/
Best Publisher Nominee Name PavCon
Nominee Country Romania
Information about the Nominee. Since its inception, 2017, PavCon publishing house has succeeded to print more Romanian fantastika than all the other Romanian publishing houses combined. It has succeeded to select original projects (like the `Invasion` multiple author series) and to push for innovation in a pretty rigid environment.
URL http://pavcon.ro/
Best Promoter Nominee Name Mariano Martin Rodriguez
Nominee Country Spain
Information about the Nominee. MM Rodriguez has done more good for Romanian fantastika than many Romanians with long years of activism. He accomplished that by writing about it in academic papers and by participating in conferences where Romanian fantastika was part of the subject.
URL https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/mariano-martin-rodriguez/
Best Magazine Nominee Name Caietele Echinox
Nominee Country Romania
Information about the Nominee. This is the publication in which the Centre for the Research of the Imaginary, besides its books, is making known its studies.
URL http://phantasma.lett.ubbcluj.ro/?page_id=2853&lang=en
Best Translator Nominee Name Mihai-Dan Pavelescu
Nominee Country Romania
Information about the Nominee. Mihai-Dan Pavelescu is the mythical figure of the Romanian translators dedicated to science fiction, starting in the 80s. Till today, M-D Pavelescu has translated or supervised more than 700 volumes, top of them being the writings of Isaac Asimov and William Gibson. A list of his best translations you can see at the url following
URL https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai-Dan_Pavelescu#Biografie_profesional%C4%83
Best work of Art Nominee Name Daniel Dociu
Nominee Country Romania
Information about the Nominee. Scraps of the Untainted Sky is our favourite recent work from Daniel. It speaks for itself. His portfolio can be seen at danieldociu.weebly.com/.
URL danieldociu.weebly.com/
Best Written work of Fiction Nominee Name Aurel Carasel
Nominee Country Romania
Information about the Nominee. Since 1999, when he received the Encouragement Award, Aurel Carasel has become one of the most prolific and diverse authors in Romania. He is working on several projects at a time (SF, fantasy, policier) and we nominate him for the volumes in the SF series `Galaxia Sudica` (The South Galaxy).
URL https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_C%C4%83r%C4%83%C8%99el
Best Dramatic Presentation Nominee Name Game of Thrones
Nominee Country United Kingdom
Information about the Nominee. It goes without saying.
URL https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/
Best Fanzine Nominee Name Gazeta SF
Nominee Country Romania
Issue Nominated http://fanzin.clubsf.ro/cuprins-numarul-89-noiembrie-2018/
Information about the Nominee. This electronic fanzin is the entrance gate for Romanian sf&f writers (the Chrysalys nominated people know better). It does it with the most vivid comments lists and a competition between the short stories of the given issue. It is being supported by fan donations.  Even when Romania lost several major electronic entities (revistanautilus.ro as an example), Gazeta SF still goes strong.
URL http://fanzin.clubsf.ro
Best work for children Nominee Name Marian Coman
Nominee Country Romania
Information about the Nominee. Marian Coman worked in the last decade, after he took the Encouragement Award in 2005, to enlarge the Romanian public for fantastika. His last volume, `Omuletul din perete` (aprox. `Little Man from the Wall`) does this very thing.
URL https://mariancoman.com/
Best Internet Publication Nominee Name ReS Futurae
Nominee Country France
Information about the Nominee. We believe the work comprised in ‘Revue Francophone Internationale dédiée à l’étude de la science-fiction’ is very important as an intelectual alternative and points of view.
URL https://journals.openedition.org/resf/
The Chrysalis Award Nominee Name George Cornila
Nominee Country Romania
Information about the Nominee. George Cornila is one of the steady-growing authors every publisher dreams of: he started with epic fantasy and then diversified from sf to dark fantasy and crime. He is as consistent in short stories as in novels. An atmosphere creator with a tight grip of core ideas, given at the best pace.
URL https://www.observatorcultural.ro/tag/george-cornila/
European Grand-Master Nominee Name Gheorghe Sasarman
Nominee Country Germany
Information about the Nominee. heorghe Săsărman is a Romanian German writer who mastered both languages. His Romanian and German novels got the attention of readers in Spanish and English as well – with Ursula K. Le Guin being the translator for the defining work of Sasarman, ‘Squaring the Circle: A Pseudo-Treatise  of Urbogony. Sasarman is also an accomplished dramatist and memorialist.
URL https://www.amazon.com/Squaring-Circle-Pseudotreatise-Gheorghe-Sasarman/dp/1619760258

 

Premiile European Science Fiction Society din 2018.