Awards & Winners

Samuel Youd

Sam Youd, known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novel The Death of Grass and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976. Youd also wrote under variations of his own name and under the pseudonyms Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye.

Awards by Samuel Youd

Check all the awards nominated and won by Samuel Youd.

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Short Story Island of Bright Birds
Volume: February '72

1971


Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Honored for : The Guardians

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The Guardians
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation No Blade of Grass

1969


Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The Pool of Fire

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Short Story A Few Kindred Spirits