Mythopoeic Awards
Mythopoeic Awards — 2008
Announcements: Finalists (June 6, 2008) |
Winners (August 17, 2008) |
Acceptance Remarks (November 22, 2008)
Fantasy Awards
Adult Literature
Catherynne M. Valente, Orphan’s Tales, consisting of In the Night Garden (Spectra) and In the Cities of Coin and Spice (Spectra)
Children’s Literature
J.K. Rowling, The Harry Potter series, consisting of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s [Sorcerer’s] Stone;
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban;
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix;
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Bloomsbury)
Scholarship Awards
Inklings Studies
Diana Pavlac Glyer; appendix by David Bratman, The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community (Kent State University Press, 2007)
Myth & Fantasy Studies
T.A. Shippey, editor, The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005)
All Finalists
Fantasy Awards
Adult Literature
- Catherynne M. Valente, Orphan’s Tales, * consisting of In the Night Garden (Spectra) and In the Cities of Coin and Spice (Spectra)
- Theodora Goss, In the Forest of Forgetting (Prime Books)
- Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon’s Arms (Grand Central Publishing)
- Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel (Roc)
- John C. Wright, Chronicles of Chaos, consisting of Orphans of Chaos (Tor); Fugitives of Chaos (Tor), and Titans of Chaos (Tor)
Children’s Literature
- J.K. Rowling, The Harry Potter series, * consisting of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s [Sorcerer’s] Stone (Bloomsbury); Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Bloomsbury); Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Bloomsbury); Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Bloomsbury); Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Bloomsbury); Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bloomsbury); and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Bloomsbury)
- Holly Black, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (Simon & Schuster); Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie (Simon & Schuster); Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale (Margaret K. McElderry)
- Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant (HarperCollins)
- Nancy Springer, Dusssie (Walker Books for Young Readers)
- Kate Thompson, The New Policeman (HarperTeen)
Scholarship Awards
Inklings Studies
- Diana Pavlac Glyer; appendix by David Bratman, The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community * (Kent State University Press, 2007)
- Marjorie Burns, Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth (University of Toronto Press, 2005)
- Verlyn Flieger, Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology (Kent State University Press, 2005)
- Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner, The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2006)
- John D. Rateliff, The History of the Hobbit, Part One, Mr Baggins; Part Two, Return to Bag-End (HarperCollins, 2007)
Myth and Fantasy Studies
- T.A. Shippey, editor, The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous * (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005)
- Charles Butler, Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper (Children’s Literature Association & Scarecrow Press, 2006)
- Heather O’Donoghue, From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
- Richard Carl Tuerk, Oz in Perspective: The Magic and Myth of the L. Frank Baum Books (McFarland & Co., 2007)
- Milly Williamson, The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy (Wallflower, 2006)