The annual Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award went to A. Merritt this
summer at Readercon.
I hadn't heard of him at all, I must admit, and evidently a lot of other people hadn't.
That is likely why our judges for the award — Mike Resnick, Barry Malzberg, Martin H. Greenberg, and Robert J. Sawyer — decided to give his works the Rediscovery Award. To find out more about Merritt, you can start at wikipedia.
You can read some of his writings online free: Works by Abraham Merritt at Project Gutenberg.