Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant-garde short stories and science fiction who won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award . Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist , one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction." Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount . She also wrote two cowboy novels, Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her last novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007.
13-407: Emshwiller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carol Emshwiller (1921–2019), American writer Ed Emshwiller (1925–1990), American illustrator John R. Emshwiller , American journalist Peter Emshwiller , American writer, artist, magazine editor, filmmaker, and actor [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
26-703: A "prestigious fantasy prize", and as one of the three most renowned speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both fantasy and science fiction ). The World Fantasy Award—Life Achievement is given each year to individuals for their overall career in fields related to fantasy. These have included, for example, authors, editors, and publishers. The specific nomination reasons are not given, and nominees are not required to have retired, though they can only win once. The Life Achievement category has been awarded annually since 1975. World Fantasy Award nominees are decided by attendees and judges at
39-480: A statuette of H. P. Lovecraft ; more recent winners receive a statuette of a tree. During the 49 nomination years, 79 people have been given the Life Achievement Award. Multiple winners have been awarded 25 times, typically two co-winners, though five were noted in 1984. Since 2000, it has become an unofficial tradition for two winners to be announced, often with one winner primarily an author and
52-551: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carol Emshwiller She was married to artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller and "regularly served as his model for paintings of beautiful women." The couple had three children: Eve Emshwiller, a botanist and ethnobotanist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ; Susan Emshwiller, author and co-screenwriter of the movie Pollock ; and Peter Emshwiller , an actor, artist, screenwriter, and novelist. Emshwiller
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78-597: The 2005 Nebula Award in the same category. In 2009, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University . World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction and fantasy art published in English during the preceding calendar year. The awards have been described by sources such as The Guardian as
91-735: The Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, toured Europe on a motorcycle, and eventually settled in Levittown, New York. In later years, she lived in New York City and taught at New York University. She spent summers in Owens Valley, California , a setting she often used in her stories. She died on February 2, 2019, in Durham, North Carolina , where she was living with her daughter, Susan. Emshwiller began publishing science fiction in
104-527: The annual World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner of each category. Unlike the other World Fantasy Award categories, the nominees for the Life Achievement award are not announced; instead, the winner is announced along with
117-778: The mid-1950s. Much of her early fiction appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and in Damon Knight’s Orbit anthologies. Her experimental stories were associated with the New Wave of science fiction. Emshwiller’s stories appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Ninth Letter , Century, Scifiction, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet , TriQuarterly , Transatlantic Review , McSweeney’s, Orbit, Epoch, The Voice Literary Supplement, Omni , and many other anthologies and magazines. Emshwiller
130-593: The nominees in the other categories. The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy or horror authors, editors, publishers, booksellers, and others connected to the genres of fantasy and horror in some way and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties. The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October. Through 2015, winners were presented with
143-494: The other not. While most winners have been authors and editors, five winners have been primarily artists of fantasy art and book covers, and five winners are best known for founding or running publishing houses that produce fantasy works. In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony. Items in the Work(s) column are items and companies that the winner created or worked at; they are meant to be representative of
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#1733093190983156-644: Was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and was awarded an NEA grant, a New York State Creative Artists Public Service grant, a New York State Foundation for the Arts grant, and the ACCENT/ASCENT fiction prize. In 2005, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement for her collection The Start of the End of It All . Her short story "Creature" won the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Short Story , and "I Live With You" won
169-613: Was born Agnes Carolyn Fries in Ann Arbor, Michigan . She spent part of her childhood in France and Germany for her father's academic sabbaticals. After earning a B.A. in music from the University of Michigan in 1945, she joined the Red Cross to aid U.S. troops in postwar Italy. Returning to Ann Arbor, she attended art school and married Ed Emshwiller, a fellow art student, in 1949. The couple studied at
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