Aelita Award
Entry updated 30 August 2021. Tagged: Award.
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), so the ceremony is held there as part of the annual Aelita Convention. The winner is chosen by a panel of judges. Although instituted as an award for the best single sf work published in the previous year, it appears to have become in effect a "Life Achievement" trophy. Winners are listed below.
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/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
- 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: winner not traced
- 2020: Michael Swanwick
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