The World Fantasy Awards is an annual award ceremony that has been running since 1975. The 2006 ceremony was held in Austin, Texas in November and here are the winners.
Novel
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Novella
Voluntary Committal by Joe Hill
Short Fiction
Comm Comm by George Saunders
Anthology
The Fair Folk edited by Marvin Kaye.
Collection
The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers.
Artist
James Jean
Special Award
Sean Wallace for Prime Books
Special Award: Non Professional
David Howe and Stephen Walker for Telos Books
A short history of the awards
Some notable winners of a world fantasy award include Patricia A. McKillip’s The Forgotten Beasts of Eld in 1975, Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life in 1992.
Ursula Le Guin, an author that fantasybookreview.co.uk respects greatly, was awarded a lifetime achievement award in 1995 and then won the award for best novel in 2002 for her excellent story, The Other Wind.
So near, so many times, the Stephen King story
The world famous fantasy / horror author Stephen King has been nominated for the best novel award seven times for the books It , The Stand , The Talisman (with Peter Straub), Misery , Salem’s Lot , The Mist and Pet Semetary . Although he never actually won the best novel award, he was awarded a lifetime achievement award in 2004. Being unsuccessful so many times in main category obviously did not upset Stephen King too much as he has since sat on the panel of judges several times.
A recent winner of a World Fantasy Award was Susanna Clarke for her debut novel, the wonderful Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. She received this award in 2005.
The World Fantasy Awards 2007
The judges have been announced for the 2007 awards and they are Gavin Grant, Ed Greenwood, Jeremy Lassen, Jeff Mariotte, Carsten Polzin. The awards will be chaired by Joseph T. Berlant. The master of Ceremonies will be the esteemed Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay.
The winners of the lifetime achievement award
Forrest J. Ackerman, Lloyd Alexander, Everett F. Bleiler, Robert Bloch, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Italo Calvino, Edd Cartier, Hugh B. Cave, John Crowley, Roald Dahl, Avram Davidson, L. Sprague de Camp, Tom Doherty, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller. Stephen Fabian, Philip José Farmer, Edward L. Ferman, Jack Finney, Frank Frazetta, Donald M. Grant, Stephen King, R.A. Lafferty, Madeleine L’Engle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, Frank Belknap Long, Richard Matheson, Michael Moorcock, C.L. Moore, Andre Norton, E. Hoffmann Price, Ray Russell, George Scithers, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Vance, Evangeline Walton, Donald Wandrei, Manly Wade Wellman, Jack Williamson, Gahan Wilson, Gene Wolfe.
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