Awards & Winners

Jack Vance

Date of Birth 28-August-1916
Place of Birth San Francisco
(California, United States of America, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Peninsula, Area code 415)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Alan Wade, John Holbrook Vance, John Van See, Peter Held, Jack Holbrook Vance, John Holbrook "Jack" Vance
Profession Writer, Novelist
John Holbrook "Jack" Vance was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published as by Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and once each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984 and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 14th Grand Master in 1997 and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers. Among his awards for particular works were: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc. He also won an Edgar for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage. A 2009 profile in The New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices". He died at his home in Oakland, California, May 26, 2013, aged 96.

Awards by Jack Vance

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jack Vance.

2010


Hugo Award for Best Related Work
Honored for : This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is \u201CI\u201D)

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Hugo Award for Best Related Work This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is \u201CI\u201D)

2008


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Locus Award for Best Collection The Jack Vance Treasury

1999


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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Ports of Call

1997


Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Night Lamp

1992


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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Ecce and Old Earth

1990


World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Madouc

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World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Madouc
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Madouc

1989


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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Araminta Station

1988


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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Araminta Station

1986


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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel The Green Pearl

1985


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Locus Award for Best Collection Rhialto the Marvellous

1984


World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement

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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Cugel's Saga
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden

1983


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Nebula Award for Best Novel Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden

1982


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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The Book of Dreams

1980


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Locus Award for Best Art Book Morreion: A Tale of the Dying Earth
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The Face

1978


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Locus Award for Best Short Story The Bagful of Dreams

1977


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Locus Award for Best Novel Maske: Thaery

1976


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Locus Award for Best Novel Showboat World

1975


Jupiter Award for Best Novellette
Honored for : The Seventeen Virgins

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Hugo Award for Best Novella Assault on a City
Locus Award for Best Novel The Gray Prince

1974


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Locus Award for Best Novel Trullion: Alastor 2262

1973


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Locus Award for Best Novel The Brave Free Men

1967


Hugo Award for Best Novelette
Honored for : The Last Castle

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Hugo Award for Best Novelette The Last Castle

1966


Nebula Award for Best Novella
Honored for : The Last Castle

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Nebula Award for Best Novella The Last Castle

1963


Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction
Honored for : The Dragon Masters

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Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction The Dragon Masters

1961


Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Honored for : The Man in the Cage

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Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author The Man in the Cage

1959


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Hugo Award for Best Novelette The Miracle-Workers

1951


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Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel The Dying Earth