We have two long-running awards for specfic in this country. Plenty of people have tallied up the winners down the years, but what about all those people who've been nominated and haven't got the gong? Who are our biggest losers?

I've taken the data from the entire history of the Aurealis Awards, plus the Ditmars covering roughly the same period. I've included only professional fiction data for discrete works, ie not included collections or Athelings etc. The results are below the cut.

Does it mean anything? Probably not, but it does confirm my gut feeling that those who win a lot tend to lose a lot too. A bit like rejections, maybe, although the awards process is for the most part outside the author's control.

Awards have no meaning, really, but they do supply a lot of data, and sometimes it's just fun to fiddle.

( Who are Australia's biggest losers? )

UPDATE: Thanks to deborahb for this quote:

"We are all failures--at least, the best of us are."
-- Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), British writer