5 artists from Ukraine reached the final of this year’s Eurocon award

Five artists from Ukraine were nominated for the LuxCon festival in Luxembourg, the Ukrainian science fiction project «Star Fortress» announced.

The LuxCon festival, which will host the 44th Eurocon Convention of the European Science Fiction Community, will take place from 7 to 10 April in Dudelange, Luxembourg.

Awards for which Ukrainians are nominated: 

Hall of Fame nominations (awarded for general achievements in the field of fiction).

The best illustrator:

• Peter Stanimirov (Bulgaria)
• Igor Kordej (Croatia)
• Allen Brion (France)
• Timo Kummel (Germany)
• Ciaraíoch Kira Kenny (Ireland)
• Nora «Nono» Beck (Luxembourg)
• Roch Urbaniak (Poland)
• Adrian Keefe (Румунія)
• Emma Rios (Spain)
• Oleh Kinal (Ukraine)
• Ian Clark (Great Britain)

Oleh Kinal is an artist and graphic designer from Ternopil. He creates covers for Ukrainian publications of Dan Simmons, Charles Strauss, China Miéville, Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Douglas Adams and others. He also makes covers for such Ukrainian authors as Serhiy Ukhachevskyi, Valentyn Terletsky, Volodymyr Bilinsky and others.

The best promoter:

• ShadowDance Team (Bulgaria)
• Xavier Dollo (France)
• Udo Klotz (Germany)
• Margit Shardi (Hungary)
• Raisa Perez (Ireland)
• Flora Stagliano (Italy)
• Gerard Kraus (Luxembourg)
• Constantine Paul (Romania)
• Fantlab (Russia)
• Juan Jose Parera (Spain)
• Yuriy Shevela (Ukraine)
• The Glasgow 2024 Promotions Team (United Kingdom)

Yuri Shevela is the head of the collection of science fiction and space memorabilia of the Serhiy Korolyov Space Flight Museum in Zhytomyr, the organizer of many SF&F and space events in Kyiv and around the world. In addition, he is an outstanding bibliographer of Ukrainian fiction and fantasy—the author of the YouTube channel Livejournal.

The best translator

• Bernhard Strobel (Austria)
• Elena Pavlova (Bulgaria)
• Gilles Gulet (France)
• Bernhard Kempen (Germany)
• Jack Fennel (Ireland)
• Gabriella Gregory (Italy)
• Guy Berg (Luxembourg)
• Antuza Jenescu (Romania)
• Weiko Belals (Estonia)
• Manu Vichiano (Spain)
• Bohdan Stasiuk (Ukraine)

Bohdan Stasiuk – translator, Candidate of Philological Sciences. Bohdan Stasiuk has translated into Ukrainian many outstanding science fiction writers, such as Ray Bradbury, Michael Swanwick, Charles Strauss, Jeffrey Ford, Donna Tartt and many others.

Achievements Awards nominations (awarded for a work created between a previous and a current Eurocon)

The best work of an artist

• Peter Stanimirov, the cover of his own book The day our mother went to heaven (Bulgaria)
• Sparth (Nicolas Bouvier), the cover of John Scalzi’s trilogy The Interdependency (France)
• Maike Schulchen, Cozmic Magazine Cover, №2 (Germany)
• Cover of the anthology Global Justice: A 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special (Ireland)
• Maurizio Manzieri, poster for Eurocon-2021 (Italy)
• Heather Kremer, Skull in a Bottle (Luxembourg)
• Comic Daughter of the Water Fairy, part 2. Maria Surducan (screenplay), Anna Benchedi (picture) (Romania)
• Marina Vidal, the cover of Terry Pratchett’s book The Right to Spell (Spain)    
• Valentyn Porada, work Ukrainian Cyberpunk: Cyber ​​Poznyaky-2077 (Ukraine)
• Ian Clark, Glasgow Green Lady (UK)

Valentyn Porada is a Ukrainian artist. He graduated from the Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. He works as a concept artist at PlaySide Studios.

The best work for children and teenagers

• Ursula Poznanski, Cryptos (Austria)
• Maya Bocheva, Where should I throw it? (Bulgaria)
• Zoran Krushvar and Anya Babych, Horror Bites (Croatia)
• Anna-Sophia Devrie, Biotanists (France)
• Celine Kiernan, The Promise Witch (Ireland)
• Sya Czzya, Serena Meo and Gabriel Girelli, Tonight’s Parade of Hundreds of Ghosts (Italy)
• Isabel Marinov, The Boy Who’s Head Filled With Stars: The Life of Edwin Gubble (Luxembourg)
• Marta Ignerska, World of Lem (Poland)
• Adina Rosetti, In Search of Today (Romania)
• Ellen Malle and Barbara Pomidor, Mona Olala (France)
• Anastasia Lavrenishina, Victor Robot. Diary of a planet collector (Ukraine)

«Victor_Robot, the most important mechanic of the artificial star of Zoryana, flies to Earth to the girl Vika – the granddaughter of the inventor of Zoryana. His goal is to determine how the iron star was created and for whom it should shine. Vika can’t answer all of Victor’s questions, but she has the Diary of a Planetary Collector. Grandfather Markiyan wrote it just when he invented Zoryana», – the annotation reads.

The best publication on the Internet

• ShadowDance, Online Magazine (Bulgaria)
• Morina Kutija, Online Magazine (Croatia)
• ActuSF, Online Magazine (France)
• FantasyGuide, Online Magazine (Germany)
• Podcast The National Leprechaun Museum Talking Stories (Ireland)
• Solarpunk, Portal (Italy)
• Blogul de SeFe, Portal (Romania)
• Marchetto’s blog Cuentos para Algernon (Spain)
• Alexander Burlaka’s blog Far Beyond the Clouds Away from the World (Ukraine)
• Octothorpe Podcast (UK)

A series of articles by Alexander Burlaka, a physicist and fan of Far Beyond the Clouds Away from the World, explores various aspects of astrophysics and how it has been used or ignored in popular space operas.

It is known that Ukrainian representatives managed to provide the European Science Fiction Community with a list of nominees from Ukraine before the start of russia’s full-scale invasion.

The complete list of awards and nominees can be found at the link.

LuxCon is an annual festival of the science fiction and fantasy society. It was founded in 2014.

Foreign writers in fantasy and science fiction genres have expressed support for Ukraine and Ukrainians in the war with russia.