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304- ] English Literature - Neil Gaiman

304- English Literature

Neil Gaiman


 Artistic work

Bibliography

Literary allusions

Gaiman's work is known for its use of allusions. Meredith Collins, for instance, has commented upon the degree to which his novel Stardust depends on allusions to Victorian fairy tales and culture. In The Sandman, literary figures and characters appear often; the character of Fiddler's Green is modeled on G. K. Chesterton, and both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as do several characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest. The comic also draws from numerous mythologies.

Analyzing Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, bibliographer and librarian Richard Bleiler detects patterns of and allusions to the Gothic novel, from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. He concludes that Gaiman is "utilizing works, characters, themes, and settings that generations of scholars have identified and classified as Gothic... [yet] subverts them and develops the novel by focusing on the positive aspects of maturation, concentrating on the values of learning, friendship, and sacrifice."[200] Regarding another work's assumed connection and allusions to this form, Gaiman himself quipped: "I've never been able to figure out whether Sandman is a gothic."

Clay Smith has argued that this sort of allusiveness serves to situate Gaiman as a strong authorial presence in his own works, often to the exclusion of his collaborators.[202] However, Smith's viewpoint is in the minority: to many, if there is a problem with Gaiman's scholarship and intertextuality it is that "... his literary merit and vast popularity have propelled him into the nascent comics canon so quickly that there is not yet a basis of critical scholarship about his work."

David Rudd takes a more generous view in his study of the novel Coraline, where he argues that the work plays and riffs productively on Sigmund Freud's concept of Unheimlich ("the Uncanny").

Though Gaiman's work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Gaiman says that he started reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces but refused to finish it: "I think I got about halfway through The Hero with a Thousand Faces and found myself thinking if this is true – I don't want to know. I really would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."

Awards and honours

Awards for Neil Gaiman

Work Year & Award          Category          Result          Ref.

Ghastly Beyond Belief

(with Kim Newman)

 

1986 Locus Award          Non-Fiction/Reference          Nominated 

Violent Cases

(with Dave McKean)

 

1988 Eagle Awards          Favourite Comic Album-British Section          Won 

Good Omens

(with Terry Pratchett)

 

1991 Locus Award          Fantasy Novel Nominated 

1990 HOMer Award          Fantasy Novel          Nominated 

1991 World Fantasy Award         Novel          Nominated 

2000 Premio Ignotus          Foreign Novel Nominated 

2012 FantLab's Book of the Year Award          Translated Novel/Collection   Won         

2023 Audie Awards          Fantasy          Nominated 

2023 Audie Awards       Audio Drama          Nominated 

Good Omens (TV Series)         2020 Hugo Award         Dramatic Presentation - Long Form Won 

Good Omens (TV Series), Ep: "Hard Times"        2020 Ray Bradbury Award           Won 

The Sandman          1989 Eagle Awards          Favourite Writer - American Section        Won 

1990 Eagle Awards          Favourite Writer - American Section          Won 

1991 Harvey Awards          Best Writer Won         

1991 Eisner Awards       Best Writer         Won 

1991 Eisner Awards          Continuing Series Won 

1992 Harvey Awards          Best Writer Won         

1992 Eisner Awards          Continuing Series Won 

1993 Harvey Awards          Continuing or Limited Series      Won         

1993 Eisner Awards          Continuing Series Won 

1993 Bram Stoker Award         Other Media          Nominated 

1996 Eisner Awards          Best Writer          Nominated 

2021 British Book Awards       Audiobook of the Year  Nominated         

The Sandman (TV series)          2023 Dragon Awards          Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series    Won 

The Sandman (TV Series: Season One) (as writer)         2023 Ray Bradbury Award           Finalist       

Sandman: The Doll's House          1991 Eisner Awards          Graphic Album: Reprint       Won 

The Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream

(with Charles Vess)

 

1991 World Fantasy Award          Short Fiction          Won 

The Sandman, Books of Magic & Miracleman          1992 Eisner Awards     Best Writer         Won 

The Sandman: Season of Mists       2004 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario                Won         

Sandman: Seasons of Mist (#22 - #28)          1992 Eisner Awards       Single Issue/One-Shot          Won 

Miracleman & The Sandman    1993 Eisner Awards     Best Writer         Won 

Sandman #39: Soft Places          1993 Eisner Awards          Single Issue/One-Shot          Nominated 

Sandman #40: The Parliament of Rooks          1993 Eisner Awards          Single Issue/One-Shot          Nominated 

Signal to Noise

(with Dave McKean)

 

1993 Eisner Awards          Graphic Album: New   Won 

The Sandman & Death: The High Cost of Living     1994 Eisner Awards     Best Writer         Won 

Death: The Time of Your Life    1997 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book                    Won 

1997 Eisner Awards          Best Writer          Nominated 

Sandman #50: Ramadan    1994 Eisner Awards          Single Issue/One-Shot          Nominated 

Troll Bridge          1994 World Fantasy Award          Short Fiction          Nominated 

Angels and Visitations          1994 World Fantasy Award          Collection          Nominated 

Sandman: World's End   1996 British Fantasy Award          Anthology/Collection  Nominated 

The Sandman: Book of Dreams

(with Edward E. Kramer)

 

1996 International Horror Guild Award          Anthology          Nominated 

1997 British Fantasy Award          Anthology/Collection  Nominated 

Sandman #75: The Tempest      1997 Eisner Awards          Single Issue/One-Shot          Nominated 

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions      1998 Bram Stoker Award         Fiction Collection          Nominated 

1999 SF Site Readers Poll    SF/Fantasy Won         

1999 Locus Award          Collection          Nominated 

2002 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire          Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories          Nominated 

2004 Geffen Award          Fantasy       Won         

Neverwhere          1998 Mythopoeic Awards          Adult Literature          Nominated 

1999 SF Site Readers Poll          SF/Fantasy          4th Place    

2008 Audie Awards          Narration by the Author        Nominated         

The Sandman: The Wake 1998 British Fantasy Award          Anthology/Collection  Nominated 

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters          1999 Bram Stoker Award          Illustrated Narrative    Won 

2000 Locus Award          Art Book          Nominated 

2000 Eisner Award          Comics-Related Book Won 

2000 Hugo Award          Related Work Nominated 

Goliath        1999 HOMer Award          Short Story          Nominated 

Stardust      1999 Locus Award         Fantasy Novel Nominated 

1999 Locus Award          Art Book          Nominated 

1999 Mythopoeic Awards       Adult Literature   Won 

2000 Geffen Award          Fantasy       Won         

2000 Alex Awards                    Won 

Shoggoth's Old Peculiar       1999 World Fantasy Award          Short Fiction          Nominated 

The Books of Magic          1999 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book           Nominated         

American Gods          2001 International Horror Guild Award         Novel          Nominated          [213]

2001 BSFA Award          Novel Nominated         

2001 Bram Stoker Award         Novel Won         

2002 Locus Award          Fantasy Novel Won 

2002 Mythopoeic Awards       Adult Literature   Nominated         

2002 Hugo Award          Novel Won 

2002 British Fantasy Award          August Derleth Award          Nominated 

2002 World Fantasy Award         Novel          Nominated 

2002 SF Site Readers Poll    SF/Fantasy 3rd Place

2003 Nebula Award         Novel          Won 

2003 Italia Awards          International Novel 2nd Place   

2003 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire          Foreign Novel          Nominated 

2003 Geffen Award          Fantasy          Won 

2012 Audie Award          Audiobook of the Year  Nominated 

2012 Audie Awards          Fiction          Nominated 

The Complete American Gods          2022 Eisner Awards          Graphic Album: Reprint          Won 

Coraline

(with Dave McKean)

 

2002 International Horror Guild Award          Long Form          Nominated 

2002 Bram Stoker Award         Work for Young Readers     Won         

2002 Bram Stoker Award         Long Fiction          Nominated 

2002 BSFA Award          Short Fiction          Won 

2003 Mythopoeic Awards       Children's Literature   Nominated         

2003 World Fantasy Award          Novella          Nominated 

2003 Hugo Award          Novella        Won         

2003 Locus Award          Young Adult Novel Won 

2003 Audie Awards          Middle Grade Title          Nominated 

2003 SF Site Readers Poll    SF/Fantasy 8th Place

2004 Nebula Award          Novella        Won         

2009 Eisner Awards          Publication for Teens     Won 

2023 Audie Awards          Audio Drama          Nominated 

2023 Audie Awards          Middle Grade Title   Nominated 

Coraline: The Graphic Novel

(with P. Craig Russell)

 

2009 Locus Award          Non-Fiction/Art Book          Won 

The Wolves in the Walls

(with Dave McKean)

 

2003 International Horror Guild Award          Illustrated Narrative    Nominated         

2003 Bram Stoker Award         Work for Young Readers          Nominated 

2003 BSFA Award          Short Fiction          Won 

2004 Locus Award          Non-Fiction/Art          Nominated 

2005 Hampshire Book Awards       Illustrated Book Award          Nominated 

The Sandman: Endless Nights          2003 International Horror Guild Award          Illustrated Narrative          Nominated 

2003 Bram Stoker Award         Illustrated Narrative    Won 

2004 Eisner Awards          Anthology   Won         

2004 Locus Award          Non-Fiction/Art  Won 

Death and Venice (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)

(with P. Craig Russell)

 

2004 Eisner Awards          Short Story Won         

October in the Chair          2003 World Fantasy Award          Short Fiction          Nominated 

2003 Locus Award          Short Story          Won 

A Walking Tour of the Shambles

(with Randy Broecker)

 

2003 Locus Award          Novelette          Nominated 

Murder Mysteries          2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards          Other Work - Comic Book          Nominated  [219]

A Study in Emerald      2004 Hugo Award          Short Story          Won 

2004 Locus Award          Novelette     Won         

Bitter Grounds     2004 Locus Award          Novelette          Nominated 

Closing Time          2004 Locus Award         Short Story Won 

The Monarch of the Glen  2004 Locus Award         Novelette          Nominated 

Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire          2005 Locus Award         Short Story Won 

Marvel 1602, Volume 1    2005 Quill Award          Graphic Novel Won 

The Price (in Creatures in the Night)         2005 Eisner Award          Short Story          Nominated 

The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection  2005 Audie Awards          Young Listeners' Title   Nominated 

The Problem of Susan 2005 British Fantasy Award          Short Fiction          Nominated 

Anansi Boys         2006 Alex Awards                   Won 

2006 Locus Award          Fantasy Novel          Won 

2006 Mythopoeic Awards       Adult Literature   Won 

2006 British Fantasy Award         August Derleth Award     Won         

2006 Geffen Award          Fantasy       Won         

2006 SF Site Readers Poll          SF/Fantasy          Won 

2007 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire          Foreign Novel          Nominated 

Sunbird       2006 Locus Award         Short Story Won 

Fragile Things          2007 Audie Awards       Short Stories or Collections          Nominated 

2007 Locus Award          Collection   Won         

2007 SF Site Readers Poll    SF/Fantasy 6th Place

2007 British Fantasy Award          Collection          Won 

2008 FantLab's Book of the Year Award          Novel/Collection          Nominated 

2010 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire          Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories          Won 

How to Talk to Girls at Parties          2007 Locus Award         Short Story Won 

2007 Hugo Award          Short Story          Nominated 

Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1 2007 Eisner Awards       Archival Collection/Project - Comic Books        Won         

2007 Eagle Awards          Favourite Reprint Compilation          Won 

Absolute Sandman Vol. 2 2008 Eagle Awards       Favourite Reprint Compilation          Won 

The Graveyard Book          2008 Cybils Award          Speculative Fiction: Elementary and Middle Grade          Won 

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize          Young Adult Novel Nominated 

2008 Black Quill Award         Dark Genre Novel of the Year  Nominated 

2008 The Dracula Society        Children of the Night Award          Nominated 

2009 FantLab's Book of the Year Award          Novel/Collection    Nominated 

2009 Thumbs Up! Award                   Honor        

2009 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award               Nominated 

2009 Newbery Medal                    Won 

2009 World Fantasy Award         Novel          Nominated 

2009 Hugo Award          Novel Won 

2009 Mythopoeic Awards          Children's Literature          Nominated 

2009 Indies Choice Book Awards          Indie Young Adult Buzz Book/Fiction         Won         

2009 Locus Award          Young Adult Novel Won 

2009 British Fantasy Award          August Derleth Award          Nominated 

2009 SF Site Readers Poll    SF/Fantasy 6th Place

2009 Audie Awards          Audiobook of the Year  Won 

2009 Audie Awards          Middle Grade Title          Nominated 

2009 Booktrust Teenage Prize                 Won 

2010 Arkansas Teen Book Award          Grades 7-9          Nominated 

2010 Hampshire Book Awards          Book Award          Nominated 

2010 Carnegie Medal for Writing           Won         

2010 Kentucky Bluegrass Award          Grades 6-8  Won         

2011 Evergreen Book Awards                 Nominated 

2015 Audie Awards          Middle Grade Title   Won 

The Witch's Headstone          2008 Locus Award         Novelette          Won 

InterWorld

(with Michael Reaves)

 

2008 Audie Awards       Young Adult Title          Nominated 

M is for Magic      2008 Audie Awards          Young Adult Title   Nominated 

Odd and the Frost Giants

(with Brett Helquist)

 

2009 Cybils Award          Speculative Fiction: Elementary and Middle Grade          Nominated 

2009 World Fantasy Award          Novella          Nominated 

2010 Audie Awards          Narration by the Author        Won 

2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award          Translated Novella or Short Story          Nominated 

Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

(with Andy Kubert)

 

2009 Goodreads Choice Awards          Graphic Novel Won 

2010 Hugo Award          Graphic Story          Nominated 

2010 British Fantasy Award          Comic/Graphic Novel Won 

Blueberry Girl

(with Charles Vess)

 

2009 Goodreads Choice Awards          Picture Book          Won 

An Invocation of Incuriosity  2010 Locus Award         Short Story Won 

Stories: All New Tales

(with Al Sarrantonio)

 

2011 Shirley Jackson Award         Anthology          Won 

2011 World Fantasy Award          Anthology          Nominated 

2011 Audie Awards          Short Stories or Collections  Won 

2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award          Anthology          Nominated 

Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains  2011 Shirley Jackson Award          Novelette          Won 

2011 Locus Award          Novelette     Won         

2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award          Translated Novella or Short Story          Nominated 

2015 Publishing Innovation Award          Ebook - Fixed Format/Enhanced: Adult Fiction          Won 

2019 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire          Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories          Nominated 

Instructions

(with Charles Vess)

 

2011 Locus Award          Art Book          Nominated 

The Thing About Cassandra  2011 Locus Award          Short Story          Won 

Crazy Hair 2011 Hampshire Book Awards       Illustrated Book Award          Nominated 

Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" (as writer)

(with Richard Clark)

 

2012 Ray Bradbury Award                   Won         

2012 Hugo Award          Dramatic Presentation - Short Form Won 

And Weep Like Alexander   2012 Locus Award         Short Story Nominated 

The Case of Death and Honey         2012 Locus Award         Short Story Won 

2012 Anthony Awards       Short Story Nominated 

2012 Edgar Allan Poe Award         Short Story Nominated 

2013 Crime Writers Association Short Story Dagger          Shortlisted 

Fortunately, the Milk  2013 Goodreads Choice Awards          Middle Grade & Children's          Nominated 

2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award          Translated Novella/Short Story          Nominated 

The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury      2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award          Translated Novella or Short Story          Nominated 

The Ocean at the End of the Lane          2013 British Book Awards          Book of the Year  Won 

2013 British Book Awards       Audiobook of the Year  Won 

2013 Goodreads Choice Awards          Fantasy       Won         

2013 Not the Booker Prize                   Nominated 

2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award          Translated Novel/Collection by Foreign Writer          Nominated 

2014 Locus Award          Fantasy Novel          Won 

2014 British Fantasy Award          Robert Holdstock Award          Nominated 

2014 Mythopoeic Awards       Adult Literature   Nominated         

2014 World Fantasy Award         Novel          Nominated 

2014 Nebula Award         Novel          Nominated 

2014 Audie Awards          Fiction          Nominated 

2014 Audie Awards          Narration by the Author        Nominated         

2015 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign       Novel          Nominated 

2015 Geffen Award          Fantasy       Won         

2018 Goodreads Choice Awards     Best of the Best   Nominated          [237]

The Sleeper and the Spindle  2014 Locus Award          Novelette          Won 

2016 Audie Award          Young Adult Title   Nominated 

2016 Audie Award          Audio Drama          Nominated 

Unnatural Creatures    2014 Locus Award          Anthology          Nominated 

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances        2015 Goodreads Choice Awards       Fantasy          Won 

2016 Locus Award          Collection   Won         

The Sandman: Overture

(with Dave Stewart & J. H. Williams III)

 

2015 Goodreads Choice Awards          Graphic Novels & Comics          Nominated          [239]

2016 Hugo Award          Graphic Story          Won 

2016 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional                    Nominated 

2016 Dragon Awards          Graphic Novel Won 

Black Dog   2016 Locus Award         Novelette          Won 

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction   2016 Goodreads Choice Awards       Non-Fiction         Nominated         

2017 Hugo Award          Related Work Nominated 

2017 Audie Awards          Narration by the Author        Nominated         

2017 Locus Award          Non-Fiction          Nominated 

Norse Mythology          2017 Goodreads Choice Awards          Fantasy          Nominated 

2018 British Fantasy Award         Collection          Nominated 

2018 Audie Awards          Narration by the Author        Won 

2018 Locus Award          Collection          Nominated 

2020 Tähtifantasia Award                   Nominated 

2021 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award          Graphic Novel or Collection   Honorable Mention     

The Mushroom Hunters       2018 Rhysling Award          Long Poem          Won 

Cinnamon   2019 Hampshire Books Awards       Illustrated Book Award          Nominated 

Snow, Glass, Apples          2019 Bram Stoker Award          Graphic Novel          Won 

2020 Eisner Awards          Adaption from Another Medium      Won 

The Sandman: Act II          2022 British Book Awards          Fiction Audiobook of the Year          Nominated 

2022 Audie Awards          Fantasy          Nominated 

Chivalry

(with Colleen Doran)

 

2023 Locus Award          Illustrated and Art Book          Won 

2023 Eisner Awards          Adaptation from Another Medium Won         

2023Excelsior Award         Red (14 years old & up) Shortlisted  

1991 Inkpot Award                   Won 

1993 Adamson Awards                    Won 

2002 National Comics Awards riter in Comics        Nominated         

2003 National Comics Awards          Best Comics Writer Ever          Nominated 

2004 Eagle Awards          Roll of Honour          Won 

2007 Eisner Awards          Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award          Won 

2007 Comic-Con Icon Award           Won 

2015 James Joyce Award                   Won         

2018 New Academy Prize in Literature                    Nominated         

2020 Forry Award          Lifetime Achievement          Won 

2023 St. Louis Literary Award                   Won         

Note: Gaiman's Carnegie Medal win for The Graveyard Book made him the first author to have won both the Carnegie & Newbery Medals for the same work.

Other Awards & Honours

3- time winner (1991/1992/1993) of the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards for "Favorite Writer".

3-time (1992/1993/1994) winner of the Don Thompson Awards for "Best Achievement by a Writer".

1997 Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Defender of Liberty award

2005 The William Shatner Golden Groundhog Award for Best Underground Movie, nomination for MirrorMask. The other nominated films were Green Street Hooligans, Nine Lives, Up for Grabs, and Opie Gets Laid.[248]

2007 & 2008: Winner of the Galaxy Award for Most Popular Foreign Writer.

2010 Gaiman was selected as the Honorary Chair of National Library Week by the American Library Association.

2012: Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of the Arts

2016: University of St Andrews Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters

2018: Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

2019: Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award ("celebrat[ing] authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community.") Gaiman was given the award "for advocating for freedom of expression worldwide and inspiring countless writers."

2020: Children's Literature Lecture Award

Inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame in 2022.

2023: Time’s 100 most influential people in the world list 

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