304- English Literature
Neil Gaiman
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.
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