Awards & Winners

J. G. Ballard

James Graham "J. G." Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ballard focused on an eclectic variety of short stories such as The Atrocity Exhibition, which drew closer comparison with the work of postmodernist writers such as William S. Burroughs. In 1973 the highly controversial novel Crash was published, a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism; the protagonist becomes sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car crashes. The story was later adapted into a film of the same name by David Cronenberg. While many of Ballard's stories are thematically and narratively unusual, he is perhaps best known for his relatively conventional war novel, Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical account of a young boy's experiences in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War as it came to be occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army. Described as "The best British novel about the Second World War" by The Guardian, the story was adapted into a 1987 film by Steven Spielberg.

Awards by J. G. Ballard

Check all the awards nominated and won by J. G. Ballard.

2010


Xatafi-Cyberdark for Foreign story
Honored for : The Index

2004


Tähtivaeltaja Award
Honored for : Super-Cannes

2002


Nominations 2002 »

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Locus Award for Best Collection The Complete Short Stories: Volume I

1993


Nominations 1993 »

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Locus Award for Best Short Story The Message from Mars

1992


Nominations 1992 »

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Locus Award for Best Short Story Dream Cargoes

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection The Atrocity Exhibition
Locus Award for Best Collection War Fever

1990


Nominations 1990 »

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Locus Award for Best Short Story The Enormous Space

1989


Nominations 1989 »

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Locus Award for Best Collection Memories of the Space Age

1984


Guardian Fiction Prize
Honored for : Empire of the Sun

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Guardian Fiction Prize Empire of the Sun
Man Booker Prize Empire of the Sun

1982


Nominations 1982 »

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Nebula Award for Best Novelette Myths of the Near Future

1980


Nominations 1980 »

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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The Unlimited Dream Company

1979


BSFA award for best novel
Honored for : The Unlimited Dream Company

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Short Story Souvenir