Gandalf Award

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The Gandalf Awards, honoring achievement in

World Science Fiction Conventions according to procedures of the Hugo Awards.[2][3]

The award was for given for life achievement,

World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
, which was started the year after the Gandalf. In 1978 and 1979, an award was also given for a novel published during the preceding year.

Gandalf Grand Master Award

The Gandalf Grand Master Award for life achievement in

fantasy writing was awarded every year from 1974 to 1981. The inaugural winner was J. R. R. Tolkien, recently deceased in 1973.[4]

There was no ballot in 1981.

Patricia McKillip.[2]

Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy

The Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy was awarded only in 1978 and 1979.[4][2]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Lin Carter Dies" (obituary) in Locus, March 1988, p. 69.
  2. ^
    The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
    . Retrieved 2011-07-29.
  3. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Gandalf". Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  4. ^ a b c "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Gandalf Winners by Category". Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  5. ^ 1981 Gandalf Award. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2011-07-29.