List of awards and nominations received by Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024[update], he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986).
| Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 Phoenix Award | Won | ||
| 1988 Locus Award | Best 80's Author | 2nd Place | [1] |
| 1989 Interzone Readers Poll | All-Time Best SF Author | 41st Place | [2] |
| 1992 Edward E. Smith Memorial Award | Won | ||
| 1999 Locus Award | Best SF/Fantasy Author of the 90's | 11th Place | [3] |
| 2008 Whitney Awards | Lifetime Achievement award | Won | |
| 2008 Margaret Edwards Award | for Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow | Won | |
| 2016 AML Awards | The Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters | Won |
| Work | Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Ender's Game"
(Novelette) |
1978 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | [4] |
| 1978 Astounding Award for Best New Writer | Won | |||
| 1978 Hugo Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| 1994 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Short Story | Won | ||
| "Mikal's Songbird" | 1978 Nebula Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| 1979 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| 1979 Hugo Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| 1979 Analog Readers Poll | Novelette | 2nd Place | [5] | |
| "Lifeloop" | 1979 Analog Readers Poll | Short Story | Won | [6] |
| "Breaking the Game" | 1980 Analog Readers Poll | Short Story | 2nd Place | [7] |
| "A Thousand Deaths" | 1979 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "Unaccompanied Sonata" | 1979 Nebula Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| 1980 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | ||
| 1980 Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominated | ||
| "Quietus" | 1980 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "Songhouse" | 1980 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| 1980 Hugo Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| 1980 Analog Readers Poll | Novella | Won | [8] | |
| A Planet Called Treason | 1980 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| Dragons of Light | 1981 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| 1981 Balrog Awards | Collection/Anthology | Nominated | [9] | |
| 1981 World Fantasy Award | Collection | Nominated | ||
| "Saint Amy's Tale" | 1981 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| Songmaster | 1981 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| Dragons of Darkness | 1982 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories | 1982 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| Saints
(aka: A Woman of Destiny) |
1984 AML Awards | Novel | Won | |
| Hart's Hope | 1984 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Nominated | |
| "The Fringe" | 1985 Nebula Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| 1986 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| 1986 Hugo Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| Ender's Game | 1985 Nebula Award | Novel | Won | |
| 1986 SF Chronicle Readers Poll | Novel | Won | [10] | |
| 1986 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1986 Hugo Award | Novel | Won | ||
| 1991 Soaring Eagle Book Award | 1st Runner-up | [11] | ||
| 1998 Locus Award | Best SF Novels of All-Time | 9th Place | [12] | |
| "Hatrack River" | 1986 Nebula Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| 1987 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| 1987 World Fantasy Award | Novella | Won | ||
| 1987 Hugo Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| 1987 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | 3rd Place | [13] | |
| 1987 SF Chronicle Readers Poll | Novelette | Nominated | [14] | |
| Speaker for the Dead | 1986 Nebula Award | Novel | Won | |
| 1987 Locus Award | SF Novel | Won | ||
| 1987 John W. Campbell Memorial Award | Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1987 Hugo Award | Novel | Won | ||
| 1987 SF Chronicle Readers Poll | Novel | Won | [15] | |
| 1989 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | Won | ||
| Ender's War | 1986 SFBC Award | The Science Fiction Book Club's Book of the Year Award | Nominated | [16] |
| "Salvage" | 1987 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| Cardography | 1988 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| "Runaway" | 1988 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "America" | 1988 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "Eye for Eye" | 1988 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| 1988 Hugo Award | Novella | Won | ||
| 1988 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 2nd Place | [17] | |
| 1989 Seiun Award | Translated Short Story | Won | ||
| "Carthage City" | 1988 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 5th Place | [18] |
| Seventh Son | 1988 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Won | |
| 1988 Mythopoeic Awards | Fantasy | Won | ||
| 1988 World Fantasy Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1988 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1989 Ditmar Award | International Fiction | Won | ||
| 2000 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign-language Novel | Won | ||
| Red Prophet | 1988 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1989 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Won | ||
| 1989 Mythopoeic Awards | Fantasy | Nominated | ||
| 1989 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| "Dowser" | 1989 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| 1989 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | Won | [19] | |
| "Lost Boys" | 1989 Nebula Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| 1990 Locus Award | Short Story | Won | ||
| 1990 SF Chronicle Readers Poll | Short Story | Nominated | [20] | |
| 1990 Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominated | ||
| Prentice Alvin | 1989 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1990 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Won | ||
| 1990 Mythopoeic Awards | Fantasy | Nominated | ||
| 1990 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| The Folk of the Fringe | 1990 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| "Dogwalker" | 1990 Locus Award | Novelette | Won | |
| 1990 Hugo Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| 1990 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | 4th Place | [21] | |
| "Pageant Wagon" | 1990 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| 1990 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 2nd Place | [22] | |
| "The Originist" | 1990 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1991 Locus Award | Non-Fiction | Nominated | |
| 1991 Hugo Award | Related Work | Won | ||
| Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card | 1991 Locus Award | Collection | Won | |
| Xenocide | 1991 AML Awards | Novel | Won | |
| 1992 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1992 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | ||
| Future on Fire | 1992 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Lost Boys
(Novel) |
1992 AML Awards | Novel | Won | |
| 1993 Locus Award | Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel | Nominated | ||
| 2005 Audie Awards | Science Fiction | Won | ||
| The Memory of Earth | 1993 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| 1993 Prometheus Award | Nominated | |||
| 1996 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | Nominated | [23] | |
| The Call of Earth | 1994 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| Lovelock
(with Kathryn H. Kidd) |
1995 Prometheus Award | Novel | Shortlisted | [24] |
| Alvin Journeyman | 1996 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Won | |
| Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | 1996 Sidewise Awards | Long Form | Nominated | [25] |
| 1999 Geffen Award | Translated Science Fiction Novel | Won | ||
| Children of the Mind | 1997 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| 2002 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | Nominated | ||
| Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures
(with Keith Ferrell) |
1998 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Earthfall | 1998 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | Nominated | [26] |
| Homebody | 1999 Locus Award | Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel | Nominated | |
| Heartfire | 1999 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Nominated | |
| 1999 Prometheus Award | Novel | Shortlisted | [27] | |
| "Vessel" | 2000 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| Enchantment | 2000 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Nominated | |
| Ender's Shadow | 2000 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| 2000 Alex Awards | Won | |||
| 2001 Geffen Award | Translated Science Fiction Novel | Won | ||
| 2001 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | Nominated | ||
| "The Elephants of Poznan" | 2001 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century | 2002 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| First Meetings: Three Stories from the Enderverse | 2002 Utah Speculative Fiction Award | Finalist | [28] | |
| Shadow of the Hegemon | 2002 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| Shadow Puppets | 2003 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| The Crystal City | 2003 Utah Speculative Fiction Award | Finalist | [29] | |
| 2004 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Nominated | ||
| Magic Street | 2005 AML Awards | Novel Honorable Mention | Won | |
| Shadow of the Giant | 2006 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| 2006 Audie Awards | Science Fiction | Nominated | ||
| Empire | 2006 AML Awards | Novel Honorable Mention | Won | |
| 2007 Prometheus Award | SF Novel | Finalist | [30] | |
| Ender in Exile | 2008 Whitney Awards | Speculative Fiction | Finalist | |
| Hidden Empire | 2010 Prometheus Award | SF Novel | Finalist | [31] |
| Pathfinder | 2010 Whitney Awards | Speculative Fiction | Finalist | |
| 2011 Locus Award | Young Adult Book | Nominated | ||
| 2015 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | Nominated | ||
| The Lost Gate | 2011 Whitney Awards | Speculative Fiction | Finalist | |
| 2012 Westchester Fiction Award | Won | [32] | ||
| Shadows in Flight | 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards | Science Fiction | Nominated | [33] |
| Earth Afire | 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards | Science Fiction | Nominated | [34] |
| Earth Awakens
(with Aaron Johnston) |
2014 Goodreads Choice Awards | Science Fiction | Nominated | [35] |
| Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction
(with Philip Athans) |
2014 Killer Nashville Award | Non-Fiction - Craft and Business of Writing | Finalist | [36] |
| Ender's Game Alive | 2014 Audie Awards | Original Work | Nominated | |
| Lost and Found | 2022 Utah Beehive Book Award | Young Adult | Nominated | [37] |
| Wakers | 2022 AML Awards | Young Adult Novel | Nominated | |
References
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