Author

C. S. Lewis

5 award wins, 5 nominations across 6 books.

Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.

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Out of the Silent PlanetPerelandraThat Hideous StrengthThe Last BattleThe Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeThe Screwtape Letters
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Out of the Silent Planet

1 Nomination

Published 2005-12-05 · 174 pages

The first book in Lewis's Space Trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet tells the story of Dr. Elwin Ransom, a philologist who likes to explore the English countryside on foot. Seeking out a place to stay the night, he ends up at the estate of a colleague who is away in London. However, the house is not empty. Ransom stumbles upon the plot of a megalomaniacal scientist and his collaborator, who just happens to be an old schoolmate of Ransom's. Drugged, kidnapped, and wisked away in the scientists rocket to the planet Malacandra where he is to serve as a human sacrifice, Dr.

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Perelandra

1 Nomination

Published 2005-12-05 · 223 pages

Dr. Ransom is ordered to Perelandra by the supreme being, and there he finds a Garden of Eden.

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That Hideous Strength

2 Nominations

382 pages

2. That hideous strength : a modern fairy-tale for grown-ups Add to My List by Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. ... That hideous strength : a modern fairy-tale for grown-ups / C.S. Lewis. ...

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The Last Battle

2 Awards Won

192 pages

For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive "P.S." section about the history of the book, plus a round-up of the first six titles. The last days of Narnia, and all hope seems lost as lies and treachery interweave to threaten the destruction of everything.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2 Awards Won1 Nomination

186 pages

Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.

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Awards & Nominations
Hugo Award
2001 · Best Novel
Nominee
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
1962
Winner
The Keith Barker Millennium Children's Book Awards 'Children's Book of the Century'
Year unknown · Children's Literature
Winner
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The Screwtape Letters

1 Award Won

Published 1942 · 160 pages

A milestone in the history of popular theology, The Screwtape Letters is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the dynamics of temptation.This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth, trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian. Although the young man initially looks to be a willing victim, he changes his ways and is "lost" to the young devil.Dedicated to Lewis's friend and colleague J.

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