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Anna Starobinets won the ESFS award in the category “Best Writer”
From the book “Venice. History of water and land"
The European Science Fiction Awards (ESFS Awards, Eurocon) is one of the most prestigious.
Russian writer Anna Starobinets, author of science fiction (mysticism, horror) novels “Adolescence”, “Shelter 3/9”, “Sharp cold snap”, “First detachment. Truth”, “Living”, the prize was awarded for the first time.
The writer’s latest book, “Look at Him,” is a documentary acute social and psychological story about the experience of grief, personal loss - so it is obvious that the prize was awarded to her based on the totality of her merits - for all works written in the genre of science fiction.
The award ceremony took place in France, in Amiens. Also receiving Eurocon awards were the publishing house Vidavnytstvo Zhupansky, the magazine Angle Mort, the translator Ilva Sponberg, and the artist Milivoj Ceran. The "Grand Master" award was awarded to the French science fiction writer Gerard Klein, author of the legendary "Star Gambit".