Pilgrim Award
Entry updated 3 June 2024. Tagged: Award.
Given at its annual summer conference since 1970 by the Science Fiction Research Association to a person who has made distinguished contributions to the study of sf, the Pilgrim is awarded normally for a body of work rather than for a specific book or essay, and has gone to both scholars and critics, academic and otherwise. Judging is by a committee of the SFRA, reconstituted each year. Recipients become Honorary SFRA Members; until 1990 they received certificates, since then commemorative plaques (also given retrospectively to previous winners). The award is named for Pilgrims through Space and Time (1947) by J O Bailey, who in 1970 was the Pilgrim's first recipient.
In 2019 the well-known official name of the award was changed to the cumbrously insular SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship. Winners under the changed name are listed both below (for historical convenience) and under the headword for that name. It is not known if a recognizable short-form iteration for the new wordage has yet been spoken aloud. [PN/DRL]
Winners
- 1970: J O Bailey
- 1971: Marjorie Hope Nicolson
- 1972: Julius Kagarlitski
- 1973: Jack Williamson
- 1974: I F Clarke
- 1975: Damon Knight
- 1976: James E Gunn
- 1977: Thomas D Clareson
- 1978: Brian W Aldiss
- 1979: Darko Suvin
- 1980: Peter Nicholls
- 1981: Sam Moskowitz
- 1982: Neil Barron
- 1983: H Bruce Franklin
- 1984: Everett F Bleiler
- 1985: Samuel R Delany
- 1986: George Edgar Slusser
- 1987: Gary K Wolfe
- 1988: Joanna Russ
- 1989: Ursula K Le Guin
- 1990: Marshall B Tymn
- 1991: Pierre Versins
- 1992: Mark Hillegas
- 1993: Robert Reginald
- 1994: John Clute
- 1995: Vivian Sobchack
- 1996: David Ketterer
- 1997: Marleen Barr
- 1998: L Sprague de Camp
- 1999: Brian Stableford
- 2000: Hal Hall
- 2001: Dave Samuelson
- 2002: Mike Ashley
- 2003: Gary Westfahl
- 2004: Edward James
- 2005: Gérard Klein
- 2006: Fredric Jameson
- 2007: Algis Budrys
- 2008: Gwyneth Jones
- 2009: Brian Attebery
- 2010: Eric S Rabkin
- 2011: Donna J Haraway
- 2012: Pamela Sargent
- 2013: N Katherine Hayles
- 2014: Joan Gordon
- 2016: Mark Bould
- 2017: Tom Moylan
- 2018: Carl Freedman
- 2019: John Rieder
- 2020: Sherryl Vint
- 2021: Veronica Hollinger
- 2022: Roger Luckhurst
- 2023: Steven Shaviro
- 2024: Lisa Yaszek
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