Writer Peter S. Beagle was voted the 2023 Forrest J Ackerman Award for Lifetime Achievement by the members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society at their October 12 meeting.
The Forrest J Ackerman or Forry Award has been given by the LASFS annually since 1966 for lifetime achievement in the SF field. Usually, it is presented at Loscon, the convention hosted each Thanksgiving Weekend by the club. Ackerman joined LASFS in the year the club was founded, 1934.
Author and screenwriter Peter Beagle is a past winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Mythopoeic Awards. He received the World Fantasy lifetime achievement award in 2011 and was named a SFWA Grand Master in 2018. He has given generations of readers the magic of unicorns, haunted cemeteries, and disgruntled gods. A prolific author, his best-known work is The Last Unicorn, voted the number five “All-Time Best Fantasy Novel” by Locus readers in 1987. Neil Gaiman has described Beagle’s A Fine and Private Place as his “I-wish-I’d-written-that first novel.”
Beagle will be a guest of honor at Loscon 49, being held November 24-26 in Los Angeles.
The names of all previous Forry Award winners can be seen here.
[Thanks to Charles Lee Jackson II for the story.]
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The prose of Peter Beagle is among the most sensual pleasures a reader can have without chocolate.
There’s still an award named after Ackerman? After the—everything?
The fact that someone did some bad stuff doesn’t mean that the good stuff can’t be honored.
Glad to see that Peter S. Beagle was so honored.