Announcements: Finalists (August 1, 2021) | Winners (October 17, 2021) | Acceptance Remarks

The announcement of the award winners was presented online via this YouTube video, along with acceptance remarks from some of the winners.

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Alexei Kondratiev Award

The Alexei Kondratiev Award, named in honor of Alexei Kondratiev, long-time Society member and a scholar of wide-ranging interests in mythopoeic and related studies, is given to an outstanding paper presented at Mythcon by an undergraduate or graduate student. The 2021 Alexei was presented at the virtual Mythcon 51 to Sofia Parrila for her paper, “All Worthy Things: The Personhood of Nature in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium”. Congratulations, Sofia!
 

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All Book Award Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Simon Schuster)
• Jordan Ifuekov, Raybearer (Amulet)
• TJ Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea (Tor)
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic (Del Rey)
• Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Katherine Tegen Books)

Children’s Literature

• Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Kat Leyh, Snapdragon (First Second)
• T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking (Argyll)
• Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• Carlos Hernandez, the Sal and Gabi duology: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe (Rick Riordan Presents)
• Jenn Reese, A Game of Fox and Squirrels ((Henry Holt)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• John M. Bowers, Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer (Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Oronzo Cilli, Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist (Luna Press, 2019)
• John Garth, The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth (Princeton University Press, 2020)
• Catherine McIlwaine, ed, Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018)
• John Rateliff, ed, A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger (Gabbro Head, 2018)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Kathryn Hume, The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
• Adrienne Mayor, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology (Princeton University Press, 2018)
• C. Palmer-Patel, The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy (Routledge, 2019)
• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games (New York University Press, 2019)
• Anna Vaninskaya, Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien (Palgrave, 2020)