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Award honoring achievement in fantasy literature
The
Gandalf Awards
, honoring achievement in
fantasy
literature, were conferred by the
World Science Fiction Society
annually from 1974 to 1981. They were named for
Gandalf
the wizard, from the
Middle-earth
stories by
J. R. R. Tolkien
. The award was created and sponsored by
Lin Carter
[1]
and the
Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America
(SAGA), an association of fantasy writers.
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Recipients were selected by vote of participants in the
World Science Fiction Conventions
according to procedures of the
Hugo Awards
.
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[3]
The award was for given for life achievement,
[2]
[4]
and corresponds roughly to the
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
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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.
[5]
All other winners since Tolkien were among the five or six finalists one year earlier. Others who appeared on the ballot were
C. S. Lewis
,
Jack Vance
,
Roger Zelazny
,
Marion Zimmer Bradley
,
Anne McCaffrey
, and
Patricia McKillip
.
[2]
Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy
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The
Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy
was awarded only in 1978 and 1979.
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See also
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Notes
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