World Fantasy Award—Life Achievement

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Template:Short description Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction and fantasy art published in English during the preceding calendar year. The awards have been described by sources such as The Guardian as a "prestigious fantasy prize",[1] and as one of the three most renowned speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both fantasy and science fiction).[2][3] The World Fantasy Award—Life Achievement is given each year to individuals for their overall career in fields related to fantasy. These have included, for example, authors, editors, and publishers. The specific nomination reasons are not given, and nominees are not required to have retired, though they can only win once. The Life Achievement category has been awarded annually since 1975.[4]

World Fantasy Award nominees are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner of each category. Unlike the other World Fantasy Award categories, the nominees for the Life Achievement award are not announced; instead, the winner is announced along with the nominees in the other categories.[4][5] The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy or horror authors, editors, publishers, booksellers, and others connected to the genres of fantasy and horror in some way[6] and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties.[4] The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October.[5] Through 2015, winners were presented with a statuette of H. P. Lovecraft; more recent winners receive a statuette of a tree.[7]

During the 51 nomination years, 83 people have been given the Life Achievement Award. Multiple winners have been awarded 25 times, typically two co-winners, though five were noted in 1984. Since 2000, it has become an unofficial tradition for two winners to be announced, often with one winner primarily an author and the other not.[8] While most winners have been authors and editors, six winners have been primarily artists of fantasy art and book covers, and six winners are best known for founding or running publishing houses that produce fantasy works.

Winners

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony. Items in the Work(s) column are items and companies that the winner created or worked at; they are meant to be representative of the winner's career in the field of fantasy to that point, but the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement is not given for any specific achievement, and no such achievements are listed by the World Fantasy Convention as reasons for the award. In many cases the winner is well known for their non-fantasy works, such as science fiction novels, which are not listed.

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Year Winner(s) Work(s) Ref.
1975 Script error: No such module "Sort". Psycho, "That Hell-Bound Train" [9]
1976 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Gonna Roll the Bones", Ill Met in Lankhmar [10]
1977 Script error: No such module "Sort". Dandelion Wine, The Illustrated Man [11]
1978 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Hounds of Tindalos, The Horror from the Hills [12]
1979 Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Garden of Forking Paths", Ficciones [13]
1980 Script error: No such module "Sort". Worse Things Waiting, Who Fears the Devil? [14]
1981 Script error: No such module "Sort". Jirel of Joiry, Northwest of Earth [15]
1982 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Baron in the Trees, The Castle of Crossed Destinies [16]
1983 Script error: No such module "Sort". James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [17]
1984 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Goblin Tower, Land of Unreason [18]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Bid Time Return, I Am Legend [18]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", Far Lands, Other Days [18]
Script error: No such module "Sort". The Dying Earth, Lyonesse Trilogy [18]
Script error: No such module "Sort".[Note 1] The Web of Easter Island, Strange Harvest [18]
1985 Script error: No such module "Sort". Without Sorcery, E Pluribus Unicorn [21]
1986 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Phoenix and the Mirror, Vergil in Averno [22]
1987 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Body Snatchers, Marion's Wall [23]
1988 Script error: No such module "Sort". Editing Guide to Supernatural Fiction, A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories [24]
1989 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Island of the Mighty, The Song of Rhiannon [25]
1990 Script error: No such module "Sort". Serpent's Egg, The Devil is Dead [26]
1991 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Bishop's Daughter, The Devil's Mirror [27]
1992 Script error: No such module "Sort". Artwork for Unknown, Fantasy Press [28]
1993 Script error: No such module "Sort". Deathbird Stories, Mefisto in Onyx [29]
1994 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Hocus Pocus Universe", Darker Than You Think [30]
1995 Script error: No such module "Sort". A Wizard of Earthsea, Always Coming Home [31]
1996 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Book of the New Sun, Soldier of the Mist [32]
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet [33]
1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". Editing The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction [34]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Witch World, The Halfblood Chronicles [34]
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". Murgunstrumm and Others, Death Stalks the Night [35]
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Mists of Avalon, Darkover [36]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Elric of Melniboné, The Knight of Swords [36]
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". Artwork such as Conan the Destroyer, Death Dealer [37]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Hadon of Ancient Opar, Inside Outside [37]
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort". Editing Famous Monsters of Filmland, work as a literary agent [38]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Editing Weird Tales, Amra [38]
2003 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Black Cauldron, The High King [39]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Founding/running Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Centaur Press [39]
2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, It [40]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Artwork for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New Yorker [40]
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". Founder of Tor Books, publisher for Ace Books [41]
Script error: No such module "Sort". The Mount, The Start of the End of It All [41]
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". Little, Big, Great Work of Time [42]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Artwork for Dungeons & Dragons, Ladies & Legends [42]
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". Co-founded Bantam Books, Ballantine Books [43]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Howl's Moving Castle, Charmed Life [43]
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Artwork for Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, Ashanti to Zulu [44]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Harpist in the Wind, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld [44]
2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". Editor of Science Fiction Book Club, New American Library [45]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Owl Moon, Lost Girls [45]
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Necroscope, Blood Brothers [46]
Script error: No such module "Sort". The Colour of Magic, Mort [46]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Ghost Story, The Talisman [46]
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Last Unicorn, "Two Hearts" [47]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Kalpa Imperial, Opus dos [47]
2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, "The Owl Service" [48]
Script error: No such module "Sort". A Song of Ice and Fire, Sandkings [48]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Dark Is Rising, The Grey King [49]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Death's Master, The Birthgrave [49]
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". Editing Omni, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror [50]
Script error: No such module "Sort". The Palace, Ariosto [50]
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". To Wake the Dead, Alone with the Horrors [51]
Script error: No such module "Sort". The True Game, Beauty [51]
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". Editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, Tor Books [52]
Script error: No such module "Sort". The Witcher Saga [52]
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". Shannara series, Magic Kingdom of Landover series [53]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Research and non-fiction works on fairy tales and myths [53]
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". Newford series [54]
Script error: No such module "Sort". President, co-Publisher, and co-Editor-in-Chief of DAW Books [54]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". Co-founder of Studio Ghibli, and animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and manga artist of multiple works [55]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Academic and folklorist on fairy tales [55]
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, "Always", cofounded the Otherwise Award [56]
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2021 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Farseer Trilogy, Wizard of the Pigeons [57]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Science fiction and fantasy short stories [57]
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort". Science fiction and fantasy novels, criticism, and essays [58]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and other anthologies [58]
2023 Script error: No such module "Sort". Co-founder of PS Publishing and editor of anthologies [59]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Science fiction and fantasy editing [59]
2024 Script error: No such module "Sort". Editor-in-Chief at Ace Books and Roc Books [60]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Founder and publisher of Jo Fletcher Books [60]
2025 Script error: No such module "Sort". Fantasy novels [61]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Science fiction and fantasy illustrations [61]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Donald Wandrei refused to accept the 1984 Life Achievement award, as he felt the award bust was a demeaning caricature of Lovecraft, whom he had known personally.[19][20]

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External links

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