Editing Gandalf Award

{{Short description|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 after [[Gandalf]] the wizard, from the [[Middle-earth]] stories by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]. The award was created and sponsored by [[Lin Carter]]<ref>"Lin Carter Dies" (obituary) in ''Locus'', March 1988, p. 69.</ref> and the [[Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America]] (SAGA), an association of fantasy writers.<ref name=isfdb>[http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Awards#Gandalf_Award Gandalf Award] and subsidiary pages. [[The Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]. Retrieved 2011-07-29.</ref> Recipients were selected by vote of participants in the [[World Science Fiction Convention]]s according to procedures of the [[Hugo Award]]s.<ref name=isfdb /><ref name="GA1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Gandalf.html |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Gandalf |access-date=2011-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016212203/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Gandalf.html |archive-date=2011-10-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The award was given for life achievement,<ref name=isfdb /><ref name="GA2">{{Cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/GandalfWinsByCategory.html |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: Gandalf Winners by Category |access-date=2011-07-26 |archive-date=2011-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016213937/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/GandalfWinsByCategory.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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  ==
The '''Gandalf Grand Master Award''' for life achievement in [[fantasy fiction|fantasy writing]] was awarded every year from 1974 to 1981. The inaugural winner was J. R. R. Tolkien, recently deceased in 1973.<ref name="GA2" />
* '''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]]

There was no ballot in 1981.<ref>[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?Ga1981 1981 Gandalf Award]. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2011-07-29.</ref> 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]].<ref name=isfdb />

==Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy==
The '''Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy''' was awarded only in 1978 and 1979.<ref name="GA2"/><ref name=isfdb />

* '''1978''': ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], edited by [[Christopher Tolkien]]
* '''1979''': ''[[The White Dragon (novel)|The White Dragon]]'', [[Anne McCaffrey]]

==See also==
*[[Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America]]
*[[World Fantasy Award]]

==Notes==
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