World Fantasy Awards Administrator Peter Dennis Pautz tells us “The World Fantasy Awards Administration is proud to announce that for the first time, three Life Achievement Awards will be presented this year.” The recipients are:
Brian Lumley
Terry Pratchett
Peter Straub
The Gahan Wilson‑designed trophies will be presented to the winners at the convention, to be held 28-31 October 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel 350 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, USA.
British author Brian Lumley, 72, won the World Horror Grandmaster award in 1998, and the Bram Stoker lifetime achievement award earlier this year. His short story “Fruiting Bodies” won the British Fantasy Award in 1989. Lumley is the author of the ongoing Necroscope series, the Cthulhu Cycle Deities novels, and more. Subterranean has published several collections of his short fiction.
British author Sir Terry Pratchett, 62, is best known for his long-running Discworld series. He received his OBE for services to literature in 1998, and was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001, he won the Carnegie Medal for his YA novel The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. In 1994, he was named the British Book Awards’ Fantasy and Science Fiction Author of the Year. In 1989, he won the British Science Fiction Award for his novel Pyramids. In late 2007, Pratchett announced he is suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease (see this article).
American author Peter Straub, 67, is best known for his horror writing. He received the Bram Stoker lifetime achievement award in 2005 and the International Horror Guild Living Legend award in 2007. His collection 5 Stories (2007) and Magic Terror: Seven Tales (2001) won Stoker for best collection, and his novels In the Night Room (2004), lost boy lost girl (2003), Mr. X (1999), and The Throat (1993) won Stokers for best novel. “Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff” (1998) won the Stoker for long fiction. His 1992 novella “The Ghost Village” and his 1988 novel Koko both won World Fantasy Awards.
The other nominees for this year’s Awards were announced in this article.