- Gandalf Award
The Gandalf Award was awarded annually by the
World Science Fiction Society from 1974 to 1980. It was named afterGandalf the wizard, who appears in the works ofJ. R. R. Tolkien , and sponsored byLin Carter and theSwordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA) , a group of prominent fantasy authors of which he was a member and guiding figure. Recipients were selected by the vote of the members of theWorld Science Fiction Convention .Two types of Gandalf Awards were presented.
The Gandalf Grand Master Award for life achievement in fantasy writing was awarded every year from 1974 to 1980. J. R. R. Tolkien was the inaugural recipient of the award. Four of the six subsequent recipients of the Grand Master award, namely
Fritz Leiber ,L. Sprague de Camp ,Andre Norton , andPoul Anderson , were SAGA members.The Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy was awarded only in 1978 and 1979. The award overlapped with the
Hugo Award for Best Novel (which has often gone to fantasy books), and was thus felt by organizers of the Worldcon to be an unnecessary duplicate.With the collapse of Carter’s health in the 1980s, the Gandalf award went into abeyance. Its primary purpose of recognizing merit in authors and works of fantasy continues to be fulfilled by the initially rival
World Fantasy Award s, first presented in 1975, particularly theWorld Fantasy Award for Life Achievement , a cognate of the Gandalf Grand Master Award, and theWorld Fantasy Award for Best Novel , which mirrors the Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy.Gandalf Grand Master Award recipients
*1974 -
J. R. R. Tolkien
*1975 -Fritz Leiber
*1976 -L. Sprague de Camp
*1977 -Andre Norton
*1978 -Poul Anderson
*1979 -Ursula K. Le Guin
*1980 -Ray Bradbury
*1981 -C.L. Moore Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy recipients
*1978 - "
The Silmarillion ",J. R. R. Tolkien , edited byChristopher Tolkien
*1979 - "The White Dragon ",Anne McCaffrey ee also
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World Fantasy Award
*Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA)
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