Aelita Award

Entry updated 19 August 2022. Tagged: Award.

In its heyday the most prestigious Russian sf award, founded in 1981 by the Russian Federation Writers' Union and Ural'skii sledopyt ["Urals Pathfinder"] magazine. The latter was published from the city of Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk until 1991), and this the ceremony was held there as part of the annual Aelita Convention. The winner is chosen by a panel of judges. The Aelita was instituted as an award for the best single sf work published in the previous year, though with two presentations in 1981, the second being to Alexander Kazantsev for his work as a whole. Further categories (not listed below) were added in 1987. Following a short hiatus in 1995-1996, the award was reinstated in 1997 as a life achievement honour.

The Aelita was initially presented for Soviet sf and later for Russian sf only; in 2019 it was decided to expand the zone of eligibility to the entire world, and in 2020 Michael Swanwick became the first US winner. [DRL/A/VG]

Aelita Award winners

1981: (tie) Arkady and Boris Strugatski; Alexander Kazantsev
1982: Zinovii Yuriev
1983: Vladislav Krapivin
1984: Sergei Snegov
1985: Sergei Pavlov
1986: No award
1987: Olga Larionova
1988: Victor Kolupaev
1989: Sever Gansovsky
1990: Oleg Korabelnikov
1991: Vladimir Mikhailov
1992: Sergei Drugal
1993: Vasily Zvyagintsev
1994: Gennadiy Prashkevich
1995: No award
1996: No award
1997: Kir Bulychev
1998: Eugeniy Gulyakovskiy
1999: Sergey Lukyanenko
2000: Vadim Shefner
2001: Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
2002: Eugeniy Lukin
2003: Vladimir Savchenko
2004: Vasili Golovachov
2006: Alexander Gromov
2007: No award
2008: Svyatoslav Loginov
2009: Vladimir Vasilyev
2010: Andrey Lazarchuk
2011: H L Oldie
2012: Pavel Amnuel
2013: Roman Zlotnikov
2014: Isay Davydov
2015: Vyacheslav Rybakov
2016: Evgeny Filenko
2017: Andrei Belyanin
2018: Vadim Panov
2019: Oleg Divov
2020: Michael Swanwick
2021: Alan Dean Foster

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Aelita Award (in Russian)

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