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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, or are otherwise discussed, in this encyclopedia. [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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• The Carnegie Medal

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 01:56 am on 27 July 2024.
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