Announcements: Finalists (May 21) | Winners (August 15) | Acceptance Remarks

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All Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke *
• The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker
• Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
• Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip
• The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe consisting of (The Knight and The Wizard)

Children’s Literature

• A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett *
• Arthur Trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland (consisting of The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places, and King of the Middle March)
• Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
• Trilogy consisting of Wise Child, Juniper, and Colman by Monica Furlong
• The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix (consisting of Sabriel, Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr, and Abhorsen)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft *
• Tolkien the Medievalist, edited by Jane Chance
• Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings by Matthew Dickerson
• Bareface: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Last Novel by Doris T. Myers
• Tolkien in the Land of Heroes by Anne C. Petty

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Thomas Knight *
• Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most by William Patrick Day
• The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast by Jerry Griswold
• Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom, edited by Teya Rosenberg