World Fantasy Award—Life Achievement
Awarded for	Outstanding service to the fantasy field
Presented by	World Fantasy Convention
First award	1975
Most recent winners	Juliet Marillier, Michael Whelan
Website	worldfantasy.org/awards/

百度 另一方面，在盗普通财物的情况下，相同的盗主体（常人）盗同等数额的官物与私物——常人盗仓库钱粮与窃盗，对前者的处罚重于后者：同样是“不得财”，常人盗官物杖六十，盗私物仅笞五十；同样是盗一两以下，常人盗官物杖七十，盗私物杖六十。

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 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 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 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 a statuette of H. P. Lovecraft; more recent winners receive a statuette of a tree.

During the 51 nomination years, 83 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 the other not. While most winners have been authors and editors, six winners have been primarily artists of fantasy art and book covers, and six winners are best known for founding or running publishing houses that produce fantasy works.

Winners

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 the winner's career in the field of fantasy to that point, but the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement is not given for any specific achievement, and no such achievements are listed by the World Fantasy Convention as reasons for the award. In many cases the winner is well known for their non-fantasy works, such as science fiction novels, which are not listed.

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner(s)	Work(s)	Ref.
1975	Robert Bloch	Psycho, "That Hell-Bound Train"
1976	Fritz Leiber	"Gonna Roll the Bones", Ill Met in Lankhmar
1977	Ray Bradbury	Dandelion Wine, The Illustrated Man
1978	Frank Belknap Long	The Hounds of Tindalos, The Horror from the Hills
1979	Jorge Luis Borges	"The Garden of Forking Paths", Ficciones
1980	Manly Wade Wellman	Worse Things Waiting, Who Fears the Devil?
1981	C. L. Moore	Jirel of Joiry, Northwest of Earth
1982	Italo Calvino	The Baron in the Trees, The Castle of Crossed Destinies
1983	Roald Dahl	James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1984	L. Sprague de Camp	The Goblin Tower, Land of Unreason
	Richard Matheson	Bid Time Return, I Am Legend
	E. Hoffmann Price	"Through the Gates of the Silver Key", Far Lands, Other Days
	Jack Vance	The Dying Earth, Lyonesse Trilogy
	Donald Wandrei	The Web of Easter Island, Strange Harvest
1985	Theodore Sturgeon	Without Sorcery, E Pluribus Unicorn
1986	Avram Davidson	The Phoenix and the Mirror, Vergil in Averno
1987	Jack Finney	The Body Snatchers, Marion's Wall
1988	Everett F. Bleiler	Editing Guide to Supernatural Fiction, A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories
1989	Evangeline Walton	The Island of the Mighty, The Song of Rhiannon
1990	R. A. Lafferty	Serpent's Egg, The Devil is Dead
1991	Ray Russell	The Bishop's Daughter, The Devil's Mirror
1992	Edd Cartier	Artwork for Unknown, Fantasy Press
1993	Harlan Ellison	Deathbird Stories, Mefisto in Onyx
1994	Jack Williamson	"Hocus Pocus Universe", Darker Than You Think
1995	Ursula K. Le Guin	A Wizard of Earthsea, Always Coming Home
1996	Gene Wolfe	The Book of the New Sun, Soldier of the Mist
1997	Madeleine L'Engle	A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
1998	Edward L. Ferman	Editing The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction
	Andre Norton	Witch World, The Halfblood Chronicles
1999	Hugh B. Cave	Murgunstrumm and Others, Death Stalks the Night
2000	Marion Zimmer Bradley	The Mists of Avalon, Darkover
	Michael Moorcock	Elric of Melniboné, The Knight of Swords
2001	Frank Frazetta	Artwork such as Conan the Destroyer, Death Dealer
	Philip José Farmer	Hadon of Ancient Opar, Inside Outside
2002	Forrest J Ackerman	Editing Famous Monsters of Filmland, work as a literary agent
	George H. Scithers	Editing Weird Tales, Amra
2003	Lloyd Alexander	The Black Cauldron, The High King
	Donald M. Grant	Founding/running Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Centaur Press
2004	Stephen King	The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, It
	Gahan Wilson	Artwork for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New Yorker
2005	Tom Doherty	Founder of Tor Books, publisher for Ace Books
	Carol Emshwiller	The Mount, The Start of the End of It All
2006	John Crowley	Little, Big, Great Work of Time
	Stephen Fabian	Artwork for Dungeons & Dragons, Ladies & Legends
2007	Betty Ballantine	Co-founded Bantam Books, Ballantine Books
	Diana Wynne Jones	Howl's Moving Castle, Charmed Life
2008	Leo and Diane Dillon	Artwork for Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, Ashanti to Zulu
	Patricia A. McKillip	Harpist in the Wind, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
2009	Ellen Asher	Editor of Science Fiction Book Club, New American Library
	Jane Yolen	Owl Moon, Lost Girls
2010	Brian Lumley	Necroscope, Blood Brothers
	Terry Pratchett	The Colour of Magic, Mort
	Peter Straub	Ghost Story, The Talisman
2011	Peter S. Beagle	The Last Unicorn, "Two Hearts"
	Angélica Gorodischer	Kalpa Imperial, Opus dos
2012	Alan Garner	The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, "The Owl Service"
	George R. R. Martin	A Song of Ice and Fire, Sandkings
2013	Susan Cooper	The Dark Is Rising, The Grey King
	Tanith Lee	Death's Master, The Birthgrave
2014	Ellen Datlow	Editing Omni, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro	The Palace, Ariosto
2015	Ramsey Campbell	To Wake the Dead, Alone with the Horrors
	Sheri S. Tepper	The True Game, Beauty
2016	David G. Hartwell	Editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, Tor Books
	Andrzej Sapkowski	The Witcher Saga
2017	Terry Brooks	Shannara series, Magic Kingdom of Landover series
	Marina Warner	Research and non-fiction works on fairy tales and myths
2018	Charles de Lint	Newford series
	Elizabeth Wollheim	President, co-Publisher, and co-Editor-in-Chief of DAW Books
2019	Hayao Miyazaki	Co-founder of Studio Ghibli, and animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and manga artist of multiple works
	Jack Zipes	Academic and folklorist on fairy tales
2020	Karen Joy Fowler	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, "Always", cofounded the Otherwise Award
	Rowena Morrill	Science fiction and fantasy illustrations
2021	Megan Lindholm	The Farseer Trilogy, Wizard of the Pigeons
	Howard Waldrop	Science fiction and fantasy short stories
2022	Samuel R. Delany	Science fiction and fantasy novels, criticism, and essays
	Terri Windling	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and other anthologies
2023	Peter Crowther	Co-founder of PS Publishing and editor of anthologies
	John Douglas	Science fiction and fantasy editing
2024	Ginjer Buchanan	Editor-in-Chief at Ace Books and Roc Books
	Jo Fletcher	Founder and publisher of Jo Fletcher Books
2025	Juliet Marillier	Fantasy novels
	Michael Whelan	Science fiction and fantasy illustrations

External links

• World Fantasy Convention official site