She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for Death’s Master (1980).
She received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 World Fantasy Award ceremonies. Tanith Lee was nominated for the Nebula Award twice, and won the World Fantasy Award twice, for her short stories “The Gorgon” (1983) and “Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)” (1984). Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all. Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told – on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others – there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change – passing on the fire like a torch – forever and forever. Lee wrote this small epitaph for her website, and it was posted this morning: Her first novel was the children’s book The Dragon Hoard (1971) her first book for adults, The Birthgrave, the first novel in The Birthgrave Trilogy, was published four years later. Lee often mentioned that she was unable to read until she was 8, due to a mild form of dyslexia, and she began to write at the age of 9. In her long career she wrote 90 novels and some 300 short stories, as well as two episodes of the BBC series Blake’s 7. I read my first Tanith Lee novel, Kill the Dead, in 1987. Tanith Lee’s website,, is reporting that she passed away on May 24th.
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