Gandalf Award

The Gandalf Awards honor excellent writing in fantasy literature. The World Science Fiction Society gave the awards each year from 1974 to 1981. They were named for Gandalf the wizard from the Middle-earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien. The award was started and sponsored by Lin Carter^[1] and the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA).^[2] People at the World Science Fiction Conventions voted to choose the winners. They used the same rules as the older Hugo Awards.^[2][3]

The awards were given in two categories: one, for life achievement, and two, for a book published the year before.^[2][4]

1. ↑ "Lin Carter Dies" (obituary) in Locus, March 1988, p. 69.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Gandalf Award and subsidiary pages. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
3. ↑ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Gandalf". Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
4. ↑ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Gandalf Winners by Category". Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2019-04-25.