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Carnegie Medal

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]

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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 09:52 am on 14 November 2024.
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