Awards & Winners

Samuel R. Delany

Date of Birth 01-April-1942
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Chip Delany, Samuel Ray Delaney, Jr., K. Leslie Steiner, Samuel R. Delaney, Samuel Ray Delany Jr., Samuel Ray Delany, S. L. Kermit, Samuel Delany
Profession Writer, Cartoonist, Novelist, Author, Essayist, Literary critic, Editor, Educator
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., Chip Delany to his friends, is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes fiction, memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society. His science fiction novels include Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, Nova, Dhalgren, and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. After winning four Nebula awards and two Hugo awards over the course of his career, Delany was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. In 2010 he won the third J. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction from the academic Eaton Science Fiction Conference at UCR Libraries. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 30th SFWA Grand Master in 2013.

Awards by Samuel R. Delany

Check all the awards nominated and won by Samuel R. Delany.

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award Dark Reflections

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction About writing
Hugo Award for Best Related Work About writing
Lambda Literary Award for Men's Fiction Dark Reflections

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Locus Award for Best Collection Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories

2002


Gaylactic Spectrum Award Hall of Fame
Honored for : Dhalgren

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Studies Shorter Views

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Studies Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Tiptree, Jr. Award The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Related Work Silent Interviews
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction Silent Interviews
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy Atlantis: Three Tales

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery The Mad Man
Locus Award for Best Collection Driftglass/Starshards

1989


Hugo Award for Best Related Work
Honored for : The Motion of Light in Water

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Related Work The Motion of Light in Water
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction The Motion of Light in Water

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection Return to Nevèrÿon

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Arthur C. Clarke Award Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Locus Award for Best Collection The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection Flight from Nevèrÿon

1985


Pilgrim Award

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction Starboard Wine
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

1984


Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Neveryóna

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Award for Best Novel Tales of Nevèrÿon

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology Nebula Winners Thirteen

1980


Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Tales of Nevèrÿon
National Book Award for Science Fiction (Paperback) Tales of Nevèrÿon

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction The American Shore
Locus Award for Best Art Book Empire: A Visual Novel
Nebula Award for Best Novella The Tale of Gorgik

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novelette Prismatica
Locus Award for Best Short Story Prismatica

1977


Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Novel Triton

1976


Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel Triton
Locus Award for Best Novel Dhalgren

1975


Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel Dhalgren

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology Quark/1

1970


Hugo Award for Best Short Story
Honored for : Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Short Story Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

1969


Nebula Award for Best Novelette
Honored for : Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novella Lines of Power
Hugo Award for Best Novel Nova
Nebula Award for Best Novelette Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

1968


Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novella The Star Pit
Hugo Award for Best Novel The Einstein Intersection
Hugo Award for Best Short Story Aye, and Gomorrah...
Nebula Award for Best Novella Lines of Power

1967


Nebula Award for Best Short Story
Honored for : Aye, and Gomorrah...
Nebula Award for Best Novel
Honored for : The Einstein Intersection

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel Babel-17
Nebula Award for Best Novel The Einstein Intersection
Nebula Award for Best Short Story Aye, and Gomorrah...
Nebula Award for Best Short Story Driftglass

1966


Nebula Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Babel-17

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel Babel-17

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novella The Ballad of Beta-2