After this year’s Hugos are awarded in early August, this chart will be modified. Most of this year’s nominees have never won a professional fiction Hugo: Paolo Bacigalupi, Cory Doctorow, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Kij Johnson, John Kessel, Mary Robinette Kowal, the duo of Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi.
Six have won one each: Elizabeth Bear, Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald, Robert Reed, Neal Stephenson, and Charles Stross.
Ted Chiang has two, and Neil Gaiman, three.
Mike Resnick (who’s nominated for two this year) and Michael Swanwick each have five already.
It’s been 17 years since Nancy Kress won her Hugo, but two other winners had 18-year gaps between wins: Arthur C. Clarke (who won Hugos in 1956, 1974, and 1980) and Robert Silverberg (1969, 1987, and 1990).
Mike Resnick is on the ballot twice this year: others who’ve won two in one year are George R.R. Martin (1980), Gordon R. Dickson (1981), and Connie Willis (1993).
The oldest first-time winner was Jack Williamson, who was 93 when he received his Hugo in 2001 (he received the Grand Master award in 1976, at the age of 68).
Who is the youngest person to ever win a Hugo award for fiction?
Just curious. My guess would be Samuel R. Delany or Spider Robinson or Orson Scott Card or Larry Niven or… Any clue?
Hey, Bob.
The youngest winner of a regular Hugo is George R. R. Martin, in 1975.
The youngest winner of a Nebula is Ted Chiang.
George was 27 or 28, and I believe Ted was 23. (The oldest Hugo winner is Jack Williamson, who was 93.)