World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement

2023 Peter Crowther
2022 Samuel R Delany
2022 Terri Windling
2021 Megan Lindholm
2021 Howard Waldrop
2020 Karen Joy Fowler
2019 Jack Zipes
2018 Charles de Lint
2017 Terry Brooks
2017 Marina Warner
2016 David G Hartwell
2016 Andrzej Sapkowski
2015 Ramsey Campbell
2015 Sheri S Tepper
2014 Ellen Datlow
2014 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
2013 Susan Cooper
2013 Tanith Lee
2012 Alan Garner
2012 George R R Martin
2011 Peter S Beagle
2011 Angélica Gorodischer
2010 Brian Lumley
2010 Terry Pratchett
2010 Peter Straub
2009 Jane Yolen
2008 Patricia A McKillip
2007 Diana Wynne Jones
2006 John Crowley
2005 Carol Emshwiller
2004 Stephen King
2004 Gahan Wilson
2003 Lloyd Alexander
2003 Donald M Grant
2002 Forrest J Ackerman
2002 George Scithers
2001 Philip José Farmer
2001 Frank Frazetta
2000 Marion Zimmer Bradley
2000 Michael Moorcock
1999 Hugh B Cave
1998 Edward L Ferman
1998 Andre Norton
1997 Madeleine L'Engle
1996 Gene Wolfe
1995 Ursula K Le Guin
1994 Jack Williamson
1993 Harlan Ellison
1991 Ray Russell
1990 R A Lafferty
1989 Evangeline Walton
1988 Everett F Bleiler
1987 Jack Finney
1986 Avram Davidson
1985 Theodore Sturgeon
1984 L Sprague de Camp
1984 Richard Matheson
1984 E Hoffmann Price
1984 Jack Vance
1984 Donald Wandrei
1983 Roald Dahl
1982 Italo Calvino
1982 L Sprague de Camp
1982 Andre Norton
1982 Jack Vance
1981 Joseph Payne Brennan
1981 Avram Davidson
1981 L Sprague de Camp
1981 C L Moore
1981 Andre Norton
1981 Jack Vance
1980 Avram Davidson
1980 L Sprague de Camp
1980 H Warner Munn
1980 Jack Vance
1980 Manly Wade Wellman
1979 Jorge Luis Borges
1979 John Collier
1979 L Sprague de Camp
1979 H Warner Munn
1979 John Myers Myers
1979 Manly Wade Wellman
1978 Jorge Luis Borges
1978 John Collier
1978 Roald Dahl
1978 Frank Belknap Long
1978 Richard Matheson
1978 Manly Wade Wellman
1977 Jorge Luis Borges
1977 Ray Bradbury
1977 L Sprague de Camp
1977 Frank Belknap Long
1977 H Warner Munn
1977 E Hoffmann Price
1977 Manly Wade Wellman
1976 Ray Bradbury
1976 Fritz Leiber
1976 Frank Belknap Long
1976 Manly Wade Wellman
1975 Robert Aickman
1975 Robert Bloch
1975 Frank Belknap Long
1975 Donald Wandrei
1975 Manly Wade Wellman