Carol Emshwiller - Awards & Nominations

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 Wisconsinâ€“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

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