Avram Davidson

Overview:

  • Legal Name: Davidson, Avram James
  • Place of Birth: Yonkers, New York, USA
  • Date of Birth: April 23, 1923
  • Date of Death: May 8, 1993

Titles:

Anthologies

Chapter Books

Collections

Essays

Interviews

Magazine Editor

Non-fiction

Novels

Omnibuses

Poems

Reviews

Serials

Short Fiction

Awards

  • 1958. Or All the Seas with Oysters - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 1962. The Blaze of Noon - Hugo Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 1962. The Sources of the Nile - Hugo Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 1962. Something Rich and Strange - Hugo Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 1962. The Kappa Nu Nexus - Hugo Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 1964. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination)
  • 1964. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - 1963 - Hugo Award, Best Amateur Magazine (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 1965. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Hugo Award, Best Professional Magazine (Nomination)
  • 1966. Rogue Dragon - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 1966. The House the Blakeneys Built - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 1966. Rogue Dragon - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 1967. Clash of Star-Kings - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 1976. The Enquiries of Dr. Eszterhazy - World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology/Collection (old) (Win)
  • 1976. Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 1976. Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman - Nebula Award, Novelette (Nomination)
  • 1978. Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight - World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 1979. Naples - World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Win)
  • 1979. A Good Night's Sleep^Sleep Well of Nights - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 1979. The Redward Edward Papers - Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Nomination)
  • 1979. The Redward Edward Papers - World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology/Collection (old) (Nomination)
  • 1979. A Good Night's Sleep^Sleep Well of Nights - World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 1980. The Best of Avram Davidson - Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Nomination)
  • 1981. There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 1981. There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 1982. Peregrine: Secundus - Locus Poll Award, Best Fantasy Novel (Nomination)
  • 1983. Collected Fantasies of Avram Davidson - Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Nomination)
  • 1983. Dr. Bhumbo Singh - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 1984. Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 1984. The Hills Behind Hollywood High - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 1984. Magic for Sale - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 1984. Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 1985. Young Doctor Eszterhazy - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 1985. Young Doctor Eszterhazy - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 1986. Duke Pasquale's Ring - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 1986. The Slovo Stove - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 1986. The Slovo Stove - World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 1987. The Head of Shemesh the Eshurian - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 1988. Vergil in Averno - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 1991. Limekiller at Large - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 1992. The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 1994. A Far Countrie - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 1994. The Spook-Box of Theodore Delafont De Brooks - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 1994. Sea-Scene, or, Vergil and the Ox-Thrall - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 1994. A Far Countrie - Hugo Award, Best Novella (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 1994. Adventures in Unhistory - Hugo Award, Best Non-Fiction Book (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 1998. The Boss in the Wall - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 1999. The Avram Davidson Treasury - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Win)
  • 1999. The Boss in the Wall - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 1999. The Boss in the Wall - Nebula Award, Novella (Nomination)
  • 1999. The Avram Davidson Treasury - British Fantasy Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 2000. The Investigations of Avram Davidson - British Fantasy Award, Best Anthology (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 2002. The Other Nineteenth Century - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 2004. Limekiller! - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 2012. Or All the Seas with Oysters - Locus Online, 20th Century Short Story (Nomination)

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