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===Awards=== Wolfe won the [[World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement]] in 1996, a judged award at the annual [[World Fantasy Convention]].<ref name=SFAwards/> He was inducted by the [[EMP Museum#Science Fiction Hall of Fame|Science Fiction Hall of Fame]] in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gene Wolfe |url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/grand-masters/gene-wolfe/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=The Nebula Awards |language=en-US}}</ref> The [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]] named him its 29th [[:Category:SFWA Grand Masters|SFWA Grand Master]] in December 2012; the annual [[Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award]] was presented to Wolfe during Nebula Awards weekend, May 16β19, 2013.<ref name="SFWA-wolfe">{{cite web|title=2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Awarded to Gene Wolfe|url=http://www.sfwa.org/2012/12/2012-damon-knight-memorial-grand-master-awarded-to-gene-wolfe/ |publisher=SFWA press release |date=December 13, 2012 |access-date=December 13, 2012}}</ref><ref name=guardian-2012>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/14/gene-wolfe-grand-master-award |title=Gene Wolfe wins grand master award for science fiction and fantasy |work=[[The Guardian]] |author=Alison Flood |date=December 14, 2012 |url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210308203732/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/14/gene-wolfe-grand-master-award|archive-date=March 8, 2021}}</ref><ref name=SFWA>[http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/events-program/grandmaster/ "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701114233/http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/events-program/grandmaster/ |date=July 1, 2011 }}. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved April 3, 2013.</ref> He was Guest of Honor at the [[1985 World Science Fiction Convention]] and he received the 1989 [[Edward E. Smith Memorial Award]] (or "Skylark") at the New England convention [[Boskone]]. In March 2012 he was presented with the first Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Fuller Award, for outstanding contribution to literature by a Chicago author.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chicagoliteraryhof.wordpress.com/what-is-the-fuller-award/ |title=What is the Fuller Award? | Honoring Gene Wolfe |publisher=The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame |date= February 3, 2012 |author=Valya Dudycz Lupescu |author-link=Valya Dudycz Lupescu |access-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref> After his death, Wolfe was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in a ceremony on September 21, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=locusmag|date=August 19, 2021|title=Wolfe Inducted into Chicago Literary Hall of Fame|url=https://locusmag.com/2021/08/wolfe-inducted-into-chicago-literary-hall-of-fame/|access-date=February 7, 2022|website=Locus Online|language=en-US}}</ref> Wolfe was the first Fuller Award recipient to be inducted; and though he was part of the 2019 class, the ceremony to honor him did not occur until 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gene Wolfe: Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Winner|url=https://chicagoliteraryhof.org/inductees/profile/gene-wolfe|access-date=February 7, 2022|website=chicagoliteraryhof.org}}</ref> He also won many awards for individual works: {| class="wikitable" |- !Work !Form !Award<ref name=SFAwards/> |- | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;" |"The Death of Doctor Island" | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;" |Novella | 1974 [[Nebula Award]] |- | 1974 [[Locus Award]] |- | ''The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps''||Long Poem||1978 [[Rhysling Award]] |- | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;"|''The Shadow of the Torturer'' | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;"|Novel | 1981 [[BSFA Award]]<ref name="worldswithoutend1981">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1981 |title=1981 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books by Award | WWEnd |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref> |- | 1981 [[World Fantasy Award]]<ref name="worldswithoutend1981"/> |- | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;"|''The Claw of the Conciliator'' | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;"|Novel | 1981 Nebula Award<ref name="worldswithoutend1981"/> |- | 1982 Locus Award |- | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;"|''[[The Sword of the Lictor]]'' | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;"|Novel | 1983 Locus Award<ref name="worldswithoutend1983">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1983 |title=1983 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books by Award | WWEnd |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref> |- | 1983 [[August Derleth Award]] |- | ''The Citadel of the Autarch''||Novel||1984 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|Campbell Award]]<ref name="worldswithoutend1984">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1984 |title=1984 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books by Award | WWEnd |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref> |- | ''Soldier of the Mist''||Novel||1987 Locus Award<ref name="worldswithoutend1987">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1987 |title=1987 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books by Award | WWEnd |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref> |- | ''[[Storeys from the Old Hotel]]''||Collection||1989 World Fantasy Award |- | ''Golden City Far''||Novella||2005 Locus Award |- | ''[[Soldier of Sidon]]''||Novel||2007 World Fantasy Award<ref name="worldswithoutend2007">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2007 |title=2007 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books by Award | WWEnd |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref> |- | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;"|''The Best of Gene Wolfe'' | rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: top;"|Collection | 2010 Locus Award<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/06/2010-locus-awards-winners/|title=2010 Locus Awards Winners|date=June 26, 2010|work=Locus Online|publisher=Locus Publications|access-date=June 27, 2010}}</ref> |- | 2010 World Fantasy Award<ref>{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention |year=2010 |title=2010 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/ |access-date=February 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027005155/http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/ |archive-date=October 27, 2012 }}</ref> |} Wolfe also amassed a long list of nominations in years when he did not win, including sixteen Nebula award nominations and eight [[Hugo Award]] nominations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=158#books |title=Gene Wolfe | Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Authors |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref>
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