Английская Википедия:Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

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The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) to a living writer of fantasy or science fiction. It was first awarded in 1975, to Robert Heinlein, and was renamed in 2002 for Damon Knight, the Association's founder, who had died that year.

The presentation is made at the annual SFWA Nebula Awards banquet, commonly during May, but it is not one of the Nebulas, which recognize the preceding calendar year's works and are selected by vote of all Association members. SFWA officers and past presidents alone submit Grand Master nominations and the final selection must be approved by a majority of that group. The recipient is announced in advance, commonly during the preceding calendar year.

In 2023, SFWA announced the creation of the Infinity Award, which posthumously honors creators who died before they could be considered for the Grand Master Award. The first recipient of the Infinity Award was Octavia E. Butler.

History

The Grand Master Award was originally limited to six recipients per decade and six were presented in the ten years to 1984; twelve in the twenty years to 1994. From 1995 onward the award has been conferred annually with exception of 2002 and 2011. Andre Norton was the first woman to receive the award, in 1984. As of 2024 Nalo Hopkinson is the youngest to receive the award, at age 59.

From 1995 to 2010, SFWA also awarded the title of Author Emeritus "as a way to recognize and appreciate senior writers in the genres of science fiction and fantasy who have made significant contributions to our field but who are no longer active or whose excellent work may no longer be as widely known as it once was." Recipients were invited to speak at the annual Nebula Awards banquet. Fourteen honorees were named in the sixteen years the award was given. As of 2024, there has been no overlap between Grand Masters and Authors Emeritus. The award's status as a consolation prize was a matter of controversy, and by October 2013 the Author Emeritus webpage had been removed by SFWA.

Grand Masters

A total of 40 SFWA Grand Masters have been created in the 50 years from 1975 to 2024. The list below shows the year of the award ceremonies for each respective recipient. Awards are announced in advance of the ceremony, sometimes in the preceding year.

Year	Recipient	Ref.
1975	Шаблон:Sortname (1907–1988)
1976	Шаблон:Sortname (1908–2006)
1977	Шаблон:Sortname (1904–1988)
1978	—
1979	Шаблон:Sortname (1907–2000)
1980	—
1981	Шаблон:Sortname (1910–1992)
1982	—
1983	—
1984	Шаблон:Sortname (1912–2005)
1985	—
1986	Шаблон:Sortname (1917–2008)
1987	Шаблон:Sortname (1920–1992)
1988	Шаблон:Sortname (1913–1987)
1989	Шаблон:Sortname (1920–2012)
1990	—
1991	Шаблон:Sortname (1915–1993)
1992	—
1993	Шаблон:Sortname (1919–2013)
1994	—
1995	Шаблон:Sortname (1922–2002)
1996	Шаблон:Sortname (1912–2000)
1997	Шаблон:Sortname (1916–2013)
1998	Шаблон:Sortname (1926–2001)
1999	Шаблон:Sortname (1922–2003)
2000	Шаблон:Sortname (1925–2017)
2001	Шаблон:Sortname (1918–2009)
2002	—
2003	Шаблон:Sortname (1929–2018)
2004	Шаблон:Sortname (1935–)
2005	Шаблон:Sortname (1926–2011)
2006	Шаблон:Sortname (1934–2018)
2007	Шаблон:Sortname (1923–2020)
2008	Шаблон:Sortname (1939–)
2009	Шаблон:Sortname (1925–2012)
2010	Шаблон:Sortname (1943–)
2011	—
2012	Шаблон:Sortname (1945–)
2013	Шаблон:Sortname (1931–2019)
2014	Шаблон:Sortname (1942–)
2015	Шаблон:Sortname (1938–)
2016	Шаблон:Sortname (1942–)
2017	Шаблон:Sortname (1939–)
2018	Шаблон:Sortname (1939–)
2019	Шаблон:Sortname (1948–)
2020	Шаблон:Sortname (1949–)
2021	Шаблон:Sortname (1960–)
2022	Шаблон:Sortname (1950–)
2023	Шаблон:Sortname (1952–)
2024	Susan Cooper (1935–)

Infinity Award

In 2023, SFWA announced the creation of the Infinity Award, which posthumously honors creators who died before they could be considered for the Grand Master Award. As SFWA President Jeffe Kennedy said, "Over the years, so many creators have been passed over for the Grand Master nod, for one reason or another. Some died tragically early. Others were not recognized for their work during their lifetimes because of cultural prejudices and blind spots."

The first recipient of the Infinity Award was Octavia E. Butler.

Year	Recipient	Ref.
2023	Шаблон:Sortname (1947–2006)

Recognition

In 1989, the anthology Grand Masters' Choice was published, edited by Andre Norton and Ingrid Zierhut. Later three more anthologies honoring recipients of the Grand Master Award and collecting some of their short works have been published: The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 1 (1999), The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 2 (2000), and The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 3 (2001), all edited by Frederik Pohl. Collectively, they honor the first fifteen recipients of the award.

See also

• The Gandalf Grand Master Award for life achievement in fantasy writing, awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society (1974 to 1981)
• World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement

External links

• "SFWA Grand Master Award" in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Michael Moorcock at 2008 Nebula Award Ceremony (flickr)
• Harry Harrison and Robert Silverberg at 2009 Nebula award ceremony (twitpic)