Orson Scott Card

Writing

Born 1951-08-24 Richland, Washington, USA 25 credits Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 4 Locus Award for Best Novelette 1 Hugo Award for Best Novel 2

Awards

Won 1 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Award

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1 won · 10 nominated

2006 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated Shadow of the Giant
2003 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated Shadow Puppets
2002 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated Shadow of the Hegemon
2000 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated Ender's Shadow
1997 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated Children of the Mind
1994 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated The Call of Earth
1993 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated The Memory of Earth
1992 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated Xenocide
1987 Best Science Fiction Novel Won Speaker for the Dead
1986 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated Ender's Game
1981 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated Songmaster

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 4 won · 4 nominated

2004 Best Fantasy Novel Nominated The Crystal City
2000 Best Fantasy Novel Nominated Enchantment
1999 Best Fantasy Novel Nominated Heartfire
1996 Best Fantasy Novel Won Alvin Journeyman
1990 Best Fantasy Novel Won Prentice Alvin
1989 Best Fantasy Novel Won Red Prophet
1988 Best Fantasy Novel Won Seventh Son
1984 Best Fantasy Novel Nominated Hart's Hope

Locus Award for Best Novelette 1 won · 6 nominated

2001 Best Novelette Nominated The Elephants of Poznan
2000 Best Novelette Nominated Vessel
1990 Best Novelette Won Dogwalker
1989 Best Novelette Nominated Dowser
1988 Best Novelette Nominated America, Runaway
1987 Best Novelette Nominated Salvage, Hatrack River
1986 Best Novelette Nominated The Fringe

Hugo Award for Best Novel 2 won · 4 nominated

1992 Best Novel Nominated Xenocide
1990 Best Novel Nominated Prentice Alvin
1989 Best Novel Nominated Red Prophet
1988 Best Novel Nominated Seventh Son
1987 Best Novel Won Speaker for the Dead
1986 Best Novel Won Ender's Game

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Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition to homosexuality has provoked public criticism. Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Utah and California. While he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), his plays were performed on stage. He served in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and headed a community theater for two summers. Card had 27 short stories published between 1978 and 1979, and he won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1978. He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Utah in 1981 and wrote novels in science fiction, fantasy, nonfiction, and historical fiction genres starting in 1979. Card continued to write prolifically, and he has published over 50 novels and 45 short stories. Card teaches English at Southern Virginia University; he has written two books on creative writing and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest. He has taught many successful writers at his "literary boot camps". Description above from the Wikipedia article Orson Scott Card, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.