Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

Children's Literature

Jane Yolen, Young Merlin trilogy (consisting of Passager, Hobby and Merlin)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

Verlyn Flieger, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Faerie

Myth & Fantasy Studies

John Clute and John Grant, editors, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

All Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt *
• Giant Bones by Peter S. Beagle
• Trader by Charles de Lint
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• The Gift by Patrick O’Leary

Children's Literature

• Young Merlin trilogy by Jane Yolen (consisting of Passager, Hobby and Merlin) *
• The Boggart and the Monster by Susan Cooper
• A Dark Horn Blowing by Dahlov Ipcar
• Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Faerie by Verlyn Flieger *
• C.S. Lewis Index: Rumours from the Sculptor’s Shop by Janine Goffar
• C.S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide by Walter Hooper
• Charles Williams: A Celebration, edited by Brian Horne
• Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress by Kathryn Lindskoog

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant *
• The Supernatural and English Fiction by Glen Cavaliero
• Lord Dunsany, Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination by S.T. Joshi
• Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination by Richard Mathews