The Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel is given each year for works published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year. A work of fiction is defined as a novel if it is 40,000 words or longer. The Hugo for Best Novel has been awarded annually since 1953 except in 1954 and 1957.
Robert A. Heinlein has received the most Hugos for Best Novel, with five wins (including one Retro Hugo) and eleven nomina...
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The Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel is given each year for works published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year. A work of fiction is defined as a novel if it is 40,000 words or longer. The Hugo for Best Novel has been awarded annually since 1953 except in 1954 and 1957.
Robert A. Heinlein has received the most Hugos for Best Novel, with five wins (including one Retro Hugo) and eleven nominations. Lois McMaster Bujold has received four Hugos on eight nominations; the only other authors to win more than twice are Vernor Vinge and Isaac Asimov (including one Retro Hugo), who each won three times. Ten other authors have won the award twice. Larry Niven and Robert J. Sawyer have each been nominated eight times, but have only won once. Vernor and Joan D. Vinge are the only married couple to have each won Hugo Awards for Best Novel (although they have since divorced).
Other Hugo Awards for fiction are given for pieces of shorter...
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