The 2002 Italia Awards for best SF published in Italy were presented on March 9th at ITALCON 28/Deepcon 3 in Fiuggi, Italy.

The winners were chosen by a jury of fans and members of WORLD SF ITALIA. The awards were delivered by Ernesto Vegetti, chairman of WORLD SF ITALIA at the end of the annual Banquet.

BEST NOVEL: Il Castello di Eymerich by Valerio Evangelisti (Mondadori)

BEST INTERNATIONAL NOVEL: Miliardi di tappeti di capelli by Andreas Eschbach (Fanucci)
Original Title: Die Haarteppichknüpfer

BEST ARTIST: Maurizio Manzieri

BEST EDITOR: Giuseppe Lippi

BEST TRANSLATOR: Vittorio Curtoni

BEST SHORT STORY: "La discesa interrotta dal rosa e dal blue", by Enrica Zunic' (Delos)

BEST ESSAY: "Da '2001' al 2001" by G.F.Pizzo, R.Chiavini and M.Tetro (Gremese)

BEST SHORT ESSAY: "Fantascienza e politica: il binomio negato" by Vittorio Catani (Delos)

BEST BOOK COLLECTION: Urania (Mondadori)

BEST MAGAZINE: Delos Science Fiction (Solid)

BEST SHOW: "Ginevra Report" by Mariano Equizzi

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL: I Custodi del Maser by Massimiliano Frezzato

The following awards were assigned in the fan categories:

BEST FANZINE: Intercom

BEST SHORT STORY: "I battitori del crepuscolo" by Domenico Gallo (Intercom)

BEST SHORT ESSAY: "Personaggi della fantascienza italiana", by A. Jarok and L. Kremo (Avatar)

Italia Awards are administered by World SF Italia. World SF is an international association of people with a professional interest in the field of science fiction: authors, editors, publishers, translators, academics, bibliographers, musicians, film-makers, artists, librarians, critics--anywhere in the world. It was founded in Dublin in 1976 and coming into operation two years later at the 1978 Dublin meeting.

Posted March 14, 2002