Hier sind die mir bekannten aufgeführt:
King´s Roman "Salem´s Lot" gewinnt den World Fantasy Award.
1979
Die Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Night Shift" und der Roman "The Stand" gewinnen den World Fantasy Award.
1980
King gewinnt den Convention Award.
King wird vom People's Magazine zum "Schriftsteller des Jahres" ernannt.
King erhält den Alumni Career Award von der University of Maine.
Ausserdem den Nebula Award für "The Way Station" und den World Fantasy Award für "The Mist".
1982
King erhält vier Preise und eine Auszeichnung:
Hugo Gernsback Award sowie den Locus Award für "Danse Macabre".
World Fantasy Award für die Geschichte "The Reach".
Von der British Fantasy Society einen Award für den Roman "Cujo".
Ausserdem den World Fantasy Award für "Do the Dead Sing?"
Er wird vom Magazine "Us" zum besten Schriftsteller des Jahres gewählt.
1983
King erhält den World Fantasy Award für die Novelle "The Breathing Method" und für die Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Different Seasons".
1984
King erhält den World Fantasy Award für den Roman "Pet Semetary".
1985
King erhält den World Fantasy Award für die Kurzgeschichte "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" und den Roman "The Talisman".
Den World Fantasy Award und den Locus Award für die Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Skeleton Crew".
1987
Den World Fantasy Award für die Kurzgeschichte "The End of the Whole Mess" und den Roman "It".
Den Bram Stoker Award für den Roman "Misery".
Den Award der British Fantasy Society für den Roman "It".
1988
Er erhält den Bram Stoker Award für "Misery", der Roman war ebenfalls für den World Fantasy Award nominiert.
Ausserdem wurden die beiden Geschichten "Dedication" und "The Night Flyer" für den Bram Stoker Award nominiert.
Die Geschichten "Dedication" und "The Night Flyer" wurden für den Bram Stoker Award nominiert.
1990
O. Henry Award und World Fantasy Award für die Kurzgeschichte "The Man in the Black Suit".
Bram Stoker Award für die Novelle "Langoliers."
Bram Stoker Award für die Sammlung "Four Past Midnight".
1991
Bram Stoker Award für die Novellen "The Waste Lands" und auch für den Roman "Needful Things".
1993
Bram Stoker Award für die Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Nightmares and Dreamscapes".
1994
Bram Stoker Award für den Roman "Insomnia".
Nominierung der Kurzgeschichte "Lunch at Gotham Café" für den Bram Stoker Award.
Nominierung der Kurzgeschichte "The Man in the Black Suit" für den World Fantasy Award.
Nominierung des Romans "Rose Madder" für den Award der British Fantasy Society.
1996
O. Henry Award für die beste Kurzgeschichte "The Man in the Black Suite".
Bram Stoker Award sowie den Award der British Fantasy Society für den Roman "The Green Mile".
1997
Locus Award und Horror Guild für den Roman "Desperation".
Bram Stoker Award für die Kurzgeschichte "Everything´s Eventual".
Award der British Fantasy Society für den Roman "Wizard and Glass".
1998
Bram Stoker Award für die Kurzgeschichte "Autopsy Room Four" und auch für den Roman "Bag of Bones".
Bram Stoker Award, Locus Award und Award der British Fantasy Society für "Bag of Bones".
Award der British Fantasy Society für die Kurzgeschichte "The Road Virus Heads North".
Award der British Fantasy Society für "Hearts in Atlantis" in den Kategorien Novelle und Sammlung.
Bram Stoker Award für "Hearts in Atlantis".
2000
World Fantasy Award in der Kategorie Sammlung für "Hearts in Atlantis".
Bram Stoker Award für die Kurzgeschichte "Riding the Bullet", die Novelle "Low Men in Yellow Coats", sowie für das Non Fiction Buch "On Writing".
2001
Locus Award und Internationaler Horror Guild für das Non Fiction Buch "On Writing".
Internationaler Horror Guild sowie den Bram Stoker Award für den Roman "Black House".
Deutscher Phantastik Preis für den Roman "Das Mädchen".
2002
Deutscher Phantastik Preis für den Roman "Duddits" sowie dessen Übersetzung durch Jochen Schwarzer.
Bram Stoker Award für den Roman "From a buick 8".
2003
Bram Stoker Award und Internationaler Horror Guild für die Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Everything's Eventual".
Bram Stoker Award für sein Lebenswerk (Horror Writers Lifetime Achievement Award).
Internationaler Horror Guild für "From a buick 8".
Nominierung der Kurzgeschichtensammlung "Everything's Eventual" für den British Fantasy Society Award in der Kategorie "Best Collection".
National Book Foundation 2003 Medal für Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
King erhält den Living Legend Award von der International Horror Guild.
Über Esquire Magazine erhält King den National Magazine Award für die Kurzgeschichte "Rest Stop".
King erhält den Life Achievement Award an dem World Fantasy Awards banquet in Tempe, AZ.
Nominierungen des HWA's Bram Stoker Award 2004:
Novel: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King (Donald Grant/Scribner)
Long Fiction: "Lisey and the Madman" by Stephen King (McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories)
Anthology: Quietly Now edited by Kealan-Patrick Burke (Borderlands)
Nonfiction: The Road to the Dark Tower by Bev Vincent (New American Library)
Alternative Forms: The Devil's Wine edited by Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications)
In Toronto (Kanada) steigt jährlich das dreitägige Booked-Festival. Stephen King hat dieses Jahr als erster Nicht-Kanadier den Lifetime Achievement Award der "Canadian Booksellers Association" gewonnen.
14/04/03:
Stephen King und Jerry Williamson gewannen den Bram Stoker Award für ihr Lebenswerk.
Horror Writers Association announces 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners:
Each year, the Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker , author of the seminal horror work, Dracula.
The Bram stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement is the most prestigious of these awards, given in acknowledgment of superior achievement not just in a single work but in an entire career. Individuals must be at least sixty years of age or have been published for a minimum of thirty-five years to be considered eligible for the award. Previous winners have included such noted authors as John Farris, Ramsey Campbell, Charles Grant and Ray Bradbury.
Recognizing that no one lives forever and opportunities to say thank you are finite, this year the committee has unanimously chosen to bestow two awards:
one upon Stephen King and one upon Jerry Williamson.
Mr. King is the author of over thirty horror novels and is the first writer to have had three, four, and finally five titles appear simultaneously on The New York Times bestseller list. His works include DREAMCATCHER, FROM ABUICK 8, AND EVERYTHING´S EVENTUAL, among others.
Mr. Williamson is the author of over thirty horror novels, including AFFINITY, THE HAUNT, and SPREE. He is also the editor of the renowned MASQUES anthology series.
The HWA Annual Conference and Bram stoker Awards banquet will be held this year on June 6th 8th at the Park Central Hotel in New York City. Both the conference and the banquet are open to the public, though there is no guarantee that any award nominee will appear.
More information on the awards and the banquet can be found by visiting
www.horror.org
von Brian Freeman:
This op-ed was posted at USAToday.com yesterday (thanks to everyone who sent it to me), but I can't find the link again, so I'll reprint it here:
Stephen King deserves award for creating readers
By Samuel G. Freedman
Late one afternoon in June 1999, the author Stephen King was taking his daily walk along a Maine highway when a van smashed into him, hurled him 15 feet aloft and left him with broken bones and a collapsed lung requiring six surgeries. The episode bore some unnerving similarities to the events in King's 1987 novel Misery, in which a writer injured in a car wreck is both healed and tortured by the nurse who rescues him.
Now King has suffered a new sort of assault, one that will probably damage him less than the cause he has championed reading in America. No sooner had the National Book Foundation announced last month that the horror novelist would receive its Medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters, essentially an honor for lifetime achievement and service, than the cries of indignation commenced.
King was merely a genre writer, undeserving of an award previously granted to Arthur Miller, Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison. King was getting the medal purely as a commercial gambit by the foundation, which is supported by the publishing industry and has been seeking greater attention for its National Book Awards, to be announced Nov. 19.
Harold Bloom, the eminent critic, dismissed King as "a man who writes what used to be called penny dreadfuls." Steve Wasserman, book editor for the Los Angeles Times, declared, "I look forward to the day when Danielle Steele, that Balzac of our time, is equally recognized." Fredric Koeppel, writing in The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, bemoaned "an award bestowed through the exercise of such base cynicism." The former head of Simon & Schuster, Richard Snyder, opined of King: "He sells a lot of books. But is it literature? No."
Perhaps these people inhabit a different universe of readers and writers than I do. As author of four books and a professor who teaches a seminar on non-fiction, I am all too keenly aware of the struggle not only to create a book but also to find for it a modicum of readers. I do not mean enough readers to get rich or land on the best-seller list. I mean enough readers to persuade a publisher to give me a contract for the next book.
The fact that Stephen King's 40 novels have drawn literally millions of people into the act of reading is an immensely valid reason for honoring him. If his work convinces people to turn off the TV, log off the computer, unplug the earphones and discover the imaginative worlds conjured by written words, then he is preserving something vital, and something that, to many of its practitioners, often feels fragile and vulnerable.
Everything else that has been said in King's behalf that he has donated large sums of money to libraries, that he has won the O. Henry Award for short stories, that he has been published in The New Yorker and praised in The New York Review of Books matters only secondarily. What greater
contribution is there to American letters than attracting, even creating, American readers?
The carping about King's award reflects an elitism that borders on being a death wish. Strictly as a matter of business, a smart publishing house (and enough of them are not smart) plows some of the windfall from its Stephen Kings or John Grishams into less-commercial writers. In turn, some of them think of Barbara Kingsolver, Alan Furst or Bruce Feiler gradually build their own substantial readerships and earning power.
More importantly, the reader who starts with King could easily enough discover through him Edgar Allan Poe or H.P. Lovecraft. How many readers who started with Terry McMillan made their way to Toni Morrison? The phenomenon of Oprah Winfrey's book club was to prove that a broad public
could read and enjoy some very serious literature Andre Dubus III, Edwidge Danticat.
But the literary community has its self-destructive strain. Perhaps that trait is borrowed from academe, where the worst insult is to call a faculty author a "popularizer" and brisk sales are seen as tantamount to weak scholarship.
Two years ago, after Oprah selected Jonathan Franzen's fine novel The Corrections for her television book club, he worried aloud that the limelight would compromise his credentials in the "high-art literary tradition." On top of that, copies of The Corrections would bear the Oprah logo, a scarlet letter if ever one existed.
Verlyn Klinkenborg, an exceptional author and essayist himself, recognized right away that the issue in that flap was the democratization of literature. As he put it in The New York Times, "Lurking behind Mr. Franzen's rejection of Ms. Winfrey is an elementary distrust of readers, except for the ones he designates."
So who, exactly, is pure enough?
Philip Roth, who won the National Book Foundation medal last year, caused a stir several years ago when he dumped his longtime agent to be represented by Andrew Wylie, a negotiator considered so fierce his nickname in publishing circles is "The Jackal." Wylie proceeded to get Roth a $1.8 million contract for his next three books. Ray Bradbury, who received the award in 1980, is as much a "genre novelist" in science fiction as King is in horror.
History will pass the final verdict on Stephen King's literary merit. Maybe his stock will appreciate like Raymond Chandler's; maybe it will drop like Pearl Buck's. But in his own moment, he has stayed true to the written word and the writing life and has brought countless others to them. And if his star wattage on Nov. 19 throws some extra light on the National Book Award winners, then he is doing the Lord's work.
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Samuel G. Freedman, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, is the author most recently of Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. He is a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors.
