Apparently making the announcement while trying to keep it quiet, two people will be honored with the World Fantasy Awards‘ Lifetime Achievement Awards at this year’s World Fantasy Convention. Those honorees are Ellen Asher and Jane Yolen.
Asher was the editor-in-chief of the Science Fiction Book Club for more than 34 years, from 1973 to 2007. Prior to that, she was an editor at NAL. She has served as a World Fantasy Awards judge, and was the recipient of the New England Science Fiction Association’s Skylark Award in 2001.
Yolen is an author and editor, with more than 300 books to her credit. She won the Caldecott Medal for Owl Moon (1998), Nebula Awards for Short Story (“Sister Emily’s Lightship”, 1997) and Novelette (“Lost Girls”, 1998), Mythopoeic Awards for adult novel (Cards of Grief in 1985, and Briar Rose in 1993) and for children’s novel (The Young Merlin Trilogy, 1998), a World Fantasy Award in 1987 (for Favorite Folk Tales from Around the World). She also received NESFA’s Skylark Award, in 1990, and was the President of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1986 to 1988.
The other nominees for this year’s Awards were announced in this article.