World Fantasy Awards 1983
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Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Chicago IL :
October 30, 1983
Eligibility Year: 1982
Judges: Bob Booth, John Coyne, Sharon Jarvis, Alan Ryan, Elizabeth R. (Betsy) Wollheim
Eligibility Year: 1982
Judges: Bob Booth, John Coyne, Sharon Jarvis, Alan Ryan, Elizabeth R. (Betsy) Wollheim
Life Achievement
- Winner: Roald Dahl
Novel
- Winner: Nifft the Lean, Michael Shea (DAW)
- Fevre Dream, George R. R. Martin (Poseidon)
- The Nestling, Charles L. Grant (Pocket)
- Phantom, Thomas Tessier (Atheneum)
- The Sword of the Lictor, Gene Wolfe (Timescape)
Novella
- Winner (tie): “Beyond Any Measure”, Karl Edward Wagner (Whispers #15/16 Mar 1982)
- Winner (tie): “Confess the Seasons”, Charles L. Grant (Perpetual Light)
- “The Breathing Method”, Stephen King (Different Seasons)
- “Horrible Imaginings”, Fritz Leiber (Death)
- “Night's Swift Dragons”, Charles L. Grant (Nightmare Seasons)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “The Gorgon”, Tanith Lee (Shadows 5)
- “Deathtracks”, Dennis Etchison (Death)
- “Firestorm”, Steve Rasnic Tem (Perpetual Light)
- “The Man Who Met Picasso”, Michael Swanwick (Omni Sep 1982)
- “Petra”, Greg Bear (Omni Feb 1982)
Anthology/collection
- Winner: Nightmare Seasons, Charles L. Grant, ed. (Doubleday)
- The Dark Country, Dennis Etchison (Scream/Press)
- Different Seasons, Stephen King (Viking)
- Hecate's Cauldron, Susan M. Shwartz, ed. (DAW)
- Perpetual Light, Alan Ryan, ed. (Warner)
- Shadows 5, Charles L. Grant, ed. (Doubleday)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Donald M. Grant, for publishing, Donald M. Grant
- Lester del Rey, for Ballantine Del Rey
- David G. Hartwell, for Timescape
- Pat LoBrutto, for Doubleday
- Douglas E. Winter, for writing/reviewing
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Stuart David Schiff, for Whispers and Whispers Press
- W. Paul Ganley, for Weirdbook
- Robert T. Garcia, for American Fantasy
- Francesco Cova, for Kadath
- Stephen Jones & David Sutton, for Fantasy Tales
Special Convention Award
- Winner: Arkham House
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