Awards & Winners

Charles de Lint

Date of Birth 22-December-1951
Place of Birth Bussum
(North Holland, Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Nationality Canada
Also know as Charles Henri Diederick Hoefsmit de Lint, Samuel M. Key, Wendelessen, de Lint, Charles Henri Diederick Hoefsmit
Profession Author, Novelist, Writer, Poet, Musician
Charles de Lint is a Canadian writer of Dutch origins. In 1974 he met MaryAnn Harris, and married her in 1980. They live in Canada. Along with writers like Terri Windling, Emma Bull, and John Crowley, de Lint popularized in the 1980s the genre of urban fantasy, most notably through The Borderland Series of books. His fantasy fiction is described under the fantasy sub-genres urban fantasy, contemporary magical realism, and mythic fiction. De Lint writes novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, and lyrics. His most famous works include: The Newford series of books, as well as Moonheart, The Mystery of Grace, The Painted Boy and A Circle of Cats. His distinctive style of fantasy draws upon local American folklore and European folklore; De Lint was influenced by many writers in the areas of mythology, folklore, and science fiction, including J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord Dunsany, William Morris, Mervyn Peake, James Branch Cabell, E.R. Eddison etc. Some of his mythic fiction poetry can be found online on the Endicott Studio website.

Awards by Charles de Lint

Check all the awards nominated and won by Charles de Lint.

2009


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Sunburst Award -- Young Adult Dingo

2005


Nominations 2005 »

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Locus Award for Best Young-Adult Book The Blue Girl

2004


Nominations 2004 »

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World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story A Circle of Cats

2003


Nominations 2003 »

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World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Seven Wild Sisters
Locus Award for Best Collection Waifs and Strays

2002


Nominations 2002 »

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World Fantasy Award for Best Novel The Onion Girl
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel The Onion Girl

2001


Nominations 2001 »

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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Forests of the Heart
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Forests of the Heart
Locus Award for Best Collection Triskell Tales: 22 Years of Chapbooks

2000


World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
Honored for : Moonlight & Vines

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Nebula Award for Best Novel Forests of the Heart
Locus Award for Best Collection Moonlight & Vines

1999


Nominations 1999 »

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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Someplace to Be Flying
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Someplace to Be Flying
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Someplace to Be Flying

1998


Nominations 1998 »

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World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Trader
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Trader
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Trader

1996


Nominations 1996 »

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Locus Award for Best Collection The Ivory and the Horn

1995


Nominations 1995 »

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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Memory & Dream

1994


Nominations 1994 »

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Locus Award for Best Collection Dreams Underfoot
Locus Award for Best Short Story The Bone Woman

1993


Nominations 1993 »

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World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Paperjack

1992


Nominations 1992 »

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World Fantasy Award for Best Novel The Little Country
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Our Lady of the Harbour
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel The Little Country

1991


Nominations 1991 »

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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Drink Down the Moon
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Ghostwood

1989


Nominations 1989 »

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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Greenmantle

1987


Nominations 1987 »

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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Yarrow

1986


Nominations 1986 »

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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Mulengro

1985


Crawford Award
Honored for : Moonheart

Nominations 1985 »

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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Moonheart
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Moonheart
Locus Award for Best First Novel The Riddle of the Wren