Big Heart Award

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The Big Heart Award is an award for especially deserving members of science fiction - fandom , the year when the World Science Fiction Convention is awarded. It was first presented in 1959 as the E. Everett Evans Big Heart Award in memory of the fan and SF author E. Everett Evans, who died in 1958, and is considered the highest award in SF fandom. The award ceremony takes place before the Hugo Awards are given . Forrest J. Ackerman presented the award until 2000 , and David A. Kyle has taken on the task since then . In 2006 the award was renamed the Forrest J. Ackerman Big Heart Award .

List of award winners

  • 1959 EE Smith
  • 1960 Bob Bloch, Sam Moskowitz
  • 1961 Rick Sneary
  • 1962 Bob Tucker
  • 1963 James Taurasi
  • 1964 Bjo Trimble
  • 1965 Walter Ernsting
  • 1966 David H. Keller
  • 1967 Janie Lamb
  • 1968 Walt Daugherty
  • 1969 Harry Warner Jr.
  • 1970 Herbert Häussler
  • 1971 CL Barrett
  • 1972 Stan Woolston
  • 1973 David A. Kyle
  • 1974 Robert Madle
  • 1975 Donald Tuck
  • 1976 Ron Graham
  • 1977 Elaine Wojciechowski
  • 1978 Bill Rotsler
  • 1979 Georges Gallet
  • 1980 Lou Tabakow
  • 1981 Walt Liebscher
  • 1982 Darrell Richardson
  • 1983 Peggy Rae, Bob Pavlat
  • 1984 Terri Pinckard, Tom Pinckard
  • 1985 Bill Crawford
  • 1986 Rusty Hevelin
  • 1987 Wiktor Bukato, Takumi Shibano, Tetsu Yano
  • 1988 Andre Norton
  • 1989 Art Widner
  • 1990 Jay Kay Klein
  • 1991 Julius Schwartz
  • 1992 Samanda Jeude
  • 1993 Marjii Ellers
  • 1994 Jack Williamson
  • 1995 Ken Slater
  • 1996 Dik Daniels
  • 1997 John L. Coker III
  • 1998 Joanie Knappenberger
  • 1999 Chris Collier, Peter Hassall
  • 2000 Robert Silverberg
  • 2001 Sue Francis, Steve Francis
  • 2002 Pat Sims
  • 2003 John Hertz
  • 2004 Filthy Pierre
  • 2005 John-Henri Holmberg, Waldemar Kumming, Ina Shorrock
  • 2006 Forrest J. Ackerman
  • 2007 Robin Johnson, Atsushi Morioka
  • 2008 Suford Lewis
  • 2009 Andrew I. Porter
  • 2010 Merv Binns
  • 2011 Gay Haldeman
  • 2012 Juanita Coulson
  • 2013 Tom Veal
  • 2014 Vincent Docherty
  • 2015 Ben Yalow
  • 2016 Edie Stern, Joe Siclari
  • 2017 Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf
  • 2018 Mike Glyer

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