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The Gandalf Award was awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society from 1974 to 1980. It was named after Gandalf the wizard, who appears in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and sponsored by Lin Carter and the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a group of prominent fantasy authors of which he was a member and guiding figure. Concept and creation Humphrey Carpenter in his 1977 biography relates that Tolkien owned a Postcard entitled Der Berggeist ("the mountain Linwood Vrooman Carter ( June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of Science fiction and Fantasy The Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA is the name of a literary group of American fantasy authors active from the 1960s through the 1980s noted Recipients were selected by the vote of the members of the World 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. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting 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, and Poul Anderson, were SAGA members. This article refers to the science fiction writer For the actor see Fritz Leiber Sr Lyon Sprague de Camp, ( November 27 1907 – November 6 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author Andre Alice Norton ( February 17, 1912 &ndash March 17, 2005) was an American Science fiction and Fantasy author Poul William Anderson ( November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American Science fiction author who wrote during a Golden

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. The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best Science fiction or Fantasy works and achievements of the previous year

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 Awards, first presented in 1975, particularly the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, a cognate of the Gandalf Grand Master Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, which mirrors the Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy. The World Fantasy Awards are annual international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of Fantasy. This World Fantasy Award is presented to individuals for their outstanding service to the fantasy field and decided by a panel of judges at the World Fantasy Convention. This World Fantasy Award is given to the Fantasy Novel or novels voted best by a panel of judges and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention

Gandalf Grand Master Award recipients

Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy recipients

See also

This article refers to the science fiction writer For the actor see Fritz Leiber Sr Lyon Sprague de Camp, ( November 27 1907 – November 6 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author Andre Alice Norton ( February 17, 1912 &ndash March 17, 2005) was an American Science fiction and Fantasy author Poul William Anderson ( November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American Science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (ˈɝsələ ˈkroʊbɚ ləˈgwɪn (born October 21, 1929) is an American author Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920 is an American mainstream, Fantasy, horror, Science fiction and mystery Catherine Lucille Moore ( January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American Science fiction and Fantasy The Silmarillion is a collection of J R R Tolkien 's mythopoeic works edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in Christopher Reuel Tolkien (born 21 November 1924 is the youngest son of the Author J The White Dragon is a 1978 Fantasy Novel by Anne McCaffrey. It is the third book in the Dragonriders of Pern series Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American Science fiction Author best known for her Dragonriders The World Fantasy Awards are annual international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of Fantasy. The Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA is the name of a literary group of American fantasy authors active from the 1960s through the 1980s noted
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