Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

Children’s Literature

Peter Dickinson, The Ropemaker

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

Edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter, Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth

Myth & Fantasy Studies

G. Ronald Murphy The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales

All Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold *
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• Ill Met by Moonlight by Sarah A. Hoyt
• The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Declare by Tim Powers

Children’s Literature

• The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson *
• The Wizard’s Dilemma by Diane Duane
• Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
• The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter *
• J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances, edited by George Clark and Daniel Timmons
• Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams by Candice Fredrick and Sam McBride
• C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse by Don W. King

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy *
• Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson
• Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries
• The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840-1920 by Christine Poulson