The 2009 Mythopoeic Award finalists have been announced and includes names like Le Guin, Gaiman, Wolfe, McKillip and more!
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone by Carol Berg
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip
An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Savvy by Ingrid Law
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
Gavin Ashenden, Charles Williams: Alchemy and Imagination
Veryln Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, eds. Tolkien on Fairy-Stories: Expanded Edition, With Commentary and Notes
John Rateliff, The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-End
Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
Elizabeth A. Whittingham, The Evolution of Tolkien’s Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
Charles Butler, Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children’s Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper
Jason Marc Harris, Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy
Marek Oziewicz, One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card
Richard Carl Tuerk, Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the Frank L. Baum Books
Via the website, here is a breakdown of what each award honors:
The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection for adults published during the previous year that best exemplifies “the spirit of the Inklings”. Books not selected as finalists in the year after publication are eligible for a second year. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears.
The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for younger readers (from “Young Adults” to picture books for beginning readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for eligibility are otherwise the same as for the Adult literature award. The question of which award a borderline book is best suited for will be decided by consensus of the committees.
The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and/or Charles Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the previous three years are eligible, including finalists for previous years.
The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy. The period of eligibility is three years, as for the Inklings Studies award.
BSC would like to congratulate all the nominees. The winners of this year’s awards will be announced during Mythcon XL, to be held July 17-20, 2009, in Los Angeles, California.
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