SFERA Award

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The SFera Award is awarded annually by the science fiction society SFera in Zagreb since 1981. [1] Until 1991, it was given to participants from whole of Yugoslavia, but since 1994 only for works originally published in Croatian.

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The SFera award is given to the best accomplishments in science fiction (as well as in fantasy and horror genre) first published or shown in Croatia over the preceding year.

At the beginning, the award was only for literary works, but with time, expanded to many categories. Currently it is awarded in the following categories:

Other mediums (costimography, sculpture, film, video, music) are designated as "special achievements". It is also awarded for life's work and from time to time, a special award for newcomers, called Protosfera.

Winners [2]

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

Not awarded.

1993

Not awarded.

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

Winners of SFERA in 2011 Dobitnici Sfera SferaKon 14052011 4.jpg
Winners of SFERA in 2011

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

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