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Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes him as "Britain's most respected living horror writer". He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature.His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain, where a film of The Influence is in production. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films.AWARDS:The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1988Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, 1999Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild, 2007A Life Achievement Award, World Fantasy Awards, 2015 |