 He was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 for his novel "Days" and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004 for his novel "Untied Kingdom".His short story "Carry The Moon in My Pocket" won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Foreign Language Short Story.Lovegrove has written young adult fiction, most notably a series of fantasy novels, "The Clouded World", under a pseudonym (Jay Amory).