Carnegie Medal
Entry updated 2 September 2024. Tagged: Award.
This Award for distinguished works written for children was established in 1936 in memory of the Scots-born industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Though not specifically a genre award, it has several times been presented for Fantasy and supernatural fiction whose themes border on or overlap Children's SF and Young Adult genre work, and in 2011 went for the first time to an outright sf novel: Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking, Book Three: Monsters of Men (2010). Below we list the Carnegie recipients who have entries in this encyclopedia.
The award was initially dated for the year of publication, but since 2007 has been dated by the year of presentation, one or two years later. As of 2023 the official name became the Yoto Carnegie Medal in honour of a sponsor, but the old name is still generally used. Also in 2023 the allied award for illustration, the Kate Greenaway Medal, became the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration, leading to some protest at the erasure of a distinguished illustrator from the award that had so long honoured her name. [DRL]
- 1936: Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post (1936)
- 1944: Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon (1944)
- 1956: C S Lewis, The Last Battle (1956)
- 1957: William Mayne, A Grass Rope (1957)
- 1958: Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden (1958)
- 1967: Alan Garner, The Owl Service (1967)
- 1971: Ivan Southall, Josh (1971) – not a genre work
- 1972: Richard Adams, Watership Down (1972)
- 1977: Robert Westall, The Machine-Gunners (1975) – not a genre work
- 1976: Jan Mark, Thunder and Lightnings (1976) – not a genre work
- 1979: Peter Dickinson, Tulku (1979)
- 1980: Peter Dickinson, City of Gold (1980)
- 1981: Robert Westall, The Scarecrows (1981) – not a genre work
- 1983: Jan Mark, Handles (1983) – not a genre work
- 1990: Gillian Cross, Wolf (1990) – not a genre work
- 1993: Robert E Swindells, Stone Cold (1993) – not a genre work
- 1995: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (1995; vt The Golden Compass 1996)
- 1996: Melvin Burgess, Junk (1996) – not a genre work
- 2001: Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001)
- 2008: Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur (2008)
- 2010: Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (2008)
- 2011: Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking, Book Three: Monsters of Men (2010)
- 2012: Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls (2011)
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