{"id":546,"date":"2009-11-01T18:38:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T23:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=546"},"modified":"2009-11-01T18:38:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T23:38:39","slug":"world-fantasy-2009-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/world-fantasy-2009-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"World Fantasy 2009 &#8212; Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Poes Raven\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFC2009logoraven.jpg\" alt=\"Poes Raven\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Just got back from the banquet and World Fantasy Award Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Winners in <strong>BOLD<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Best Novel: This category had a tie.<\/p>\n<ul>\nThe House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)<br \/>\n<strong>The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HaperCollins; Bloomsbury)<br \/>\nPandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)<br \/>\n<strong>Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen &#038; Unwin; Knopf)<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>Best Novella:<\/p>\n<ul>\n&#8220;Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel,&#8221; Peter S. Beagle (<em>Strange Roads<\/em>, DreamHaven Books)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;If Angels Fight,&#8221; Richard Bowes (F&#038;SF 2\/08)<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;The Overseer,&#8221; Albert Cowdrey (F&#038;SF 3\/08)<br \/>\n&#8220;Odd the Frost Giants,&#8221; Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; Harper Collins)<br \/>\n&#8220;Good Boy,&#8221; Nisi Shawl (<em>Filter House<\/em>, Aqueduct Press)<\/ul>\n<p>Best Short Story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n&#8220;Caverns of Mystery,&#8221; Kage Baker (<em>Tales of Dark Fantasy<\/em>, Subterranean)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss,&#8221; Kij Johnson (Asimov&#8217;s 7\/08)<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Pride and Prometheus,&#8221; John Kessel (F&#038;SF 1\/08)<br \/>\n&#8220;Our Man in the Sudan,&#8221; Sarah Pinborough (<em>The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories<\/em>, Humdrumming)<br \/>\n&#8220;A Buyer&#8217;s Guide to Maps of Antarctica,&#8221; Catherynne M. 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Beagle (DreamHaven Books)<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Drowned Life<\/em>, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Pretty Monsters<\/em>, Kelly Link (Viking)<br \/>\n<em>Filter House<\/em>, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)<br \/>\n<em>Tales from Outer Suburbia<\/em>, Shaun Tan (Allen &#038; Unwin; Scholastic)<\/ul>\n<p>Best Artist:<\/p>\n<ul>\nKinuko Y. Craft<br \/>\nJanet Chui<br \/>\nStephan Martiniere<br \/>\nJohn Picacio<br \/>\n<strong>Shaun Tan<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>Special Award, Professional:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong>Kelly Link &#038; Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)<\/strong><br \/>\nFarah Mendelsohn (For <em>The Rhetorics of Fantasy<\/em>)<br \/>\nStephen H. Segal &#038; Ann VanderMeer (for Weird Tales)<br \/>\nJerad Walters (for <em>A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft<\/em>)<br \/>\nJacob Weisman (for Tachyon Publications)<\/ul>\n<p>Special Award, Non-Professional:<\/p>\n<ul>\nEdith L. Crowe (for her work with The Mythopoeic Society)<br \/>\nJohn Klima (for Electric Velocipede)<br \/>\nElise Matthesen (for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her &#8220;artist&#8217;s challenges.&#8221;)<br \/>\nSean Wallace, Neil Clarke, &#038; Nick Mamatas (for Clarkesworld)<br \/>\n<strong>Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>Lifetime Achievement Awards went to <strong>Ellen Asher<\/strong> and <strong>Jane Yolen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Lake did a wonderful job of setting up the ceremony and the award presenters did a great job of keeping things moving.  Every category was strong and there were no losers in any of these categories as all people, books, and stories were more than worthy of the nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from the banquet and World Fantasy Award Ceremony. Winners in BOLD: Best Novel: This category had a tie. 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