Awards & Winners

Carol Emshwiller

Date of Birth 12-April-1921
Place of Birth Ann Arbor
(Washtenaw County, United States of America, Michigan, Southeast Michigan, Area code 734)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Carol Fries Emshwiller, Carol Fries
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author
Carol Emshwiller is an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction." Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount. She has also written two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her most recent novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007. She is the widow of the artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller. Their daughter Susan Emshwiller co-wrote the movie Pollock. Their son Peter Emshwiller is the author of two novels. Their daughter Eve is a botanist and ethnobotanist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Emshwiller was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She lives in New York City most of the year, and spends her summers in Owens Valley, California, and has used this setting in her stories. In 2005, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Her short story, "Creature" won the 2002 Nebula Award for best short story and "I Live With You" won the 2005 Nebula Award in the same category.

Awards by Carol Emshwiller

Check all the awards nominated and won by Carol Emshwiller.

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story Killers
Locus Award for Best Short Story World of No Return

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection I Live With You
Locus Award for Best Short Story I Live With You
Locus Award for Best Young-Adult Book Mister Boots

2005


World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
Nebula Award for Best Short Story
Honored for : I Live With You

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Mister Boots
Nebula Award for Best Short Story I Live With You
Locus Award for Best Short Story All of Us Can Almost...
Locus Award for Best Short Story Gliders Though They Be

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story Boys

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel The Mount
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Boys
Nebula Award for Best Short Story Grandma
Locus Award for Best Collection Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The Mount

2002


Philip K. Dick Award
Honored for : The Mount
Nebula Award for Best Short Story
Honored for : Creature

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Philip K. Dick Award The Mount
Philip K. Dick Award Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories
Nebula Award for Best Short Story Creature
Locus Award for Best Short Story Creature

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Venus Rising
Locus Award for Best Collection The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories

1991


World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
Honored for : The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story The Circular Library of Stones