Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is an award given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. It is awarded to a living author for lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy. Officially, it is not a Nebula Award though it is awarded at the Nebula ceremony. It was originally known as the Grand Master Award, but in 2002 it was renamed in honor of the late Damon Knight, a founder of the SFWA.

List of winners

(The year indicates the year that the honor was presented.)

• Robert A. Heinlein (1975)
• Jack Williamson (1976)
• Clifford D. Simak (1977)
• L. Sprague de Camp (1979)
• Fritz Leiber (1981)
• Andre Norton (1984)
• Arthur C. Clarke (1986)
• Isaac Asimov (1987)
• Alfred Bester (1988)
• Ray Bradbury (1989)
• Lester del Rey (1991)
• Frederik Pohl (1993)
• Damon Knight (1995)
• A. E. van Vogt (1996)
• Jack Vance (1997)
• Poul Anderson (1998)
• Hal Clement (Harry Stubbs) (1999)
• Brian W. Aldiss (2000)
• Philip José Farmer (2001)
• Ursula K. Le Guin (2003)
• Robert Silverberg (2004)
• Anne McCaffrey (2005)
• Harlan Ellison (2006)
• James Gunn (2007)
• Michael Moorcock (2008)
• Harry Harrison (2009)

Until 1995, awards were limited to no more than six per decade. To strike a better balance with the fact that no posthumous awards can be given, this was relaxed to one per year.

See also

• The Gandalf Grand Master Award for life achievement in fantasy writing was awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society from 1974 to 1980.
• Since 1995 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America also award the Author Emeritus title. It was created "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writers in the genres of science fiction and fantasy who have made significant contributions to our field but who are no longer active or whose excellent work may no longer be as widely known as it once was." The Author Emeritus is invited to speak at the annual Nebula Awards banquet.

References

• http://www.sfwa.org/awards/grand.htm