World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Award is a literary prize that has been awarded annually since 1975 at the World Fantasy Convention , an annual meeting of collectors and those professionally or otherwise interested in art or literature from the field of light and dark fantasy, which takes place around the beginning of November, for outstanding achievements the field of fantasy is awarded. The number of members participating in the event is limited to 850.
Until 2015, the prize trophy was a bust of HP Lovecraft designed by Gahan Wilson . The award was therefore occasionally referred to as the HP Lovecraft Award , not to be confused with the Howie Award given at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival . After a discussion about Lovecraft's racism, the statuette has since represented a leafless tree in front of the full moon.
Works from the field of fantasy that have been nominated within the nomination period are awarded; Works can be nominated within one year of their publication.
For the World Fantasy Award, the year in which the award was given is used for the award ceremony.
Categories
The prize is currently awarded in the following categories:
- Life Achievement
- Novel
- Novella (short novel)
- Short Fiction (story / short story)
- Anthology
- Collection
- Artist
- Special Award: Professional
- Special Award: Non-Professional
Life Achievement
- 1975 Robert Bloch
- 1976 Fritz Leiber
- 1977 Ray Bradbury
- 1978 Frank Belknap Long
- 1979 Jorge Luis Borges
- 1980 Manly Wade Wellman
- 1981 CL Moore
- 1982 Italo Calvino
- 1983 Roald Dahl
- 1984 E. Hoffmann Price
- 1984 L. Sprague de Camp
- 1984 Jack Vance
- 1984 Donald Wandrei
- 1984 Richard Matheson
- 1985 Theodore Sturgeon
- 1986 Avram Davidson
- 1987 Jack Finney
- 1988 Everett F. Bleiler
- 1989 Evangeline Walton
- 1990 RA Lafferty
- 1991 Ray Russell
- 1992 Edd Cartier
- 1993 Harlan Ellison
- 1994 Jack Williamson
- 1995 Ursula K. Le Guin
- 1996 Gene Wolfe
- 1997 Madeleine L'Engle
- 1998 Andre Norton
- 1998 Edward L. Ferman
- 1999 Hugh B. Cave
- 2000 Michael Moorcock
- 2000 Marion Zimmer Bradley
- 2001 Frank Frazetta
- 2001 Philip José Farmer
- 2002 Forrest J Ackerman
- 2002 George Scithers
- 2003 Lloyd Alexander
- 2003 Donald M. Grant
- 2004 Stephen King
- 2004 Gahan Wilson
- 2005 Tom Doherty
- 2005 Carol Emshwiller
- 2006 John Crowley
- 2006 Stephen Fabian
- 2007 Diana Wynne Jones
- 2007 Betty Ballantine
- 2008 Leo & Diane Dillon
- 2008 Patricia A. McKillip
- 2009 Jane Yolen
- 2009 Ellen Asher
- 2010 Peter Straub
- 2010 Brian Lumley
- 2010 Terry Pratchett
- 2011 Angélica Gorodischer
- 2011 Peter S. Beagle
- 2012 George RR Martin
- 2012 Alan Garner
- 2013 Susan Cooper
- 2013 Tanith Lee
- 2014 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- 2014 Ellen Datlow
- 2015 Ramsey Campbell
- 2015 Sheri S. Tepper
- 2016 Andrzej Sapkowski
- 2016 David G. Hartwell
- 2017 Terry Brooks
- 2017 Marina Warner
- 2018 Charles de Lint
- 2018 Elizabeth Wollheim
- 2019 Hayao Miyazaki / Jack Zipes
Novel
This category includes works that are 40,000 words or more in length.
| 1970s | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 1975 | Patricia A. McKillip | The Forgotten Beasts of Eld | The forgotten animals of Eld |
| 1976 | Richard Matheson | Bid time return | |
| 1977 | William Kotzwinkle | Doctor advice | Dr. rat |
| 1978 | Fritz Leiber | Our Lady of Darkness | Mistress of the Dark |
| 1979 | Michael Moorcock | Gloriana | Gloriana |
| 1980s | |||
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 1980 | Elizabeth A. Lynn | Watchtower | The Zwingfeste |
| 1981 | Gene Wolfe | The Shadow of the Torturer | The torturer's shadow |
| 1982 | John Crowley | Little, big | Little big or the parliament of the fairies |
| 1983 | Michael Shea | Niffs the lean | The journey into the underworld / fishing in the sea of demons |
| 1984 | John M. Ford | The Dragon Waiting | The dragon's throne |
| 1985 | Barry Hughart | Bridge of Birds | The bridge of the birds |
| Robert Holdstock | Mythago Wood | Forest of myths | |
| 1986 | Dan Simmons | Song of Kali | Goddess of death |
| 1987 | Patrick Süskind | The perfume | |
| 1988 | Ken Grimwood | Replay | Replay - The second game |
| 1989 | Peter Straub | Koko | Koko |
| 1990s | |||
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 1990 | Jack Vance | Lyonesse: Madouc | Madouc |
| 1991 | James Morrow | Only Begotten Daughter | The only begotten daughter |
| Ellen Kushner | Thomas the Rhymer | Thomas the bard | |
| 1992 | Robert R. McCammon | Boy's Life | Innocence and calamity |
| 1993 | Tim Powers | Last call | |
| 1994 | Lewis Shiner | Glimpses | Shadow sounds |
| 1995 | James Morrow | Towing Jehovah | The God's Supper |
| 1996 | Christopher Priest | The Prestige | The magician's cabinet |
| 1997 | Rachel Pollack | Godmother Night | |
| 1998 | Jeffrey Ford | The Physiognomy | |
| 1999 | Louise Erdrich | The Antelope Wife | The antelope woman |
| 2000s | |||
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 2000 | Martin Scott | Thraxas | The dragon slayer |
| 2001 | Sean Stewart | Galveston | |
| Tim Powers | Declare | Declare - on the mountain of angels | |
| 2002 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Other Wind | Return to Earth Sea |
| 2003 | Graham Joyce | The Facts of Life | |
| Patricia A. McKillip | Ombria in Shadow | Shadows over Ombria | |
| 2004 | Jo Walton | Tooth and Claw | The clan of the talons |
| 2005 | Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell |
| 2006 | Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore | Kafka on the beach |
| 2007 | Gene Wolfe | Soldier of Sidon | |
| 2008 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Ysabel | |
| 2009 | Jeffrey Ford | The Shadow Year | |
| Margo Lanagan | Tender Morsels | Liga's world | |
| 2010s | |||
| year | author | Original title | German title |
| 2010 | China Miéville | The City & The City | The city & the city |
| 2011 | Nnedi Okorafor | Who Fears Death | Who fears death |
| 2012 | Lavie Tidhar | Osama | Osama |
| 2013 | G. Willow Wilson | Alif the Unseen | Alif the invisible |
| 2014 | Sofia Samatar | A Stranger in Olondria | |
| 2015 | David Mitchell | The Bone Clocks | The bone clocks |
| 2016 | Anna Smaill | The Chimes | The sound of memory |
| 2017 | Claire North | The Sudden Appearance of Hope | The day Hope disappeared |
| 2018 | Victor LaValle | The changing | |
| Fonda Lee | Jade City | ||
| 2019 | CL Polk | Witchmark | Witchmark: The Trail of the Dead |
Novella (short novel)
This category includes works with a length of 17,500 to 40,000 words.
First awarded in 1982.
| 1980s | ||
|---|---|---|
| year | author | Original title |
| 1982 | Park Godwin | The Fire When It Comes |
| 1983 | Karl Edward Wagner | Beyond Any Measure |
| Charles L. Grant | Confess the Seasons | |
| 1984 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Black Air |
| 1985 | Geoff Ryman | The Unconquered Country |
| 1986 | TED small | Nadelman's God |
| 1987 | Orson Scott Card | Hatrack River |
| 1988 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight |
| 1989 | George RR Martin | The Skin Trade |
| 1990s | ||
| year | author | Original title |
| 1990 | John Crowley | Great work of time |
| 1991 | Pat Murphy | Bones |
| 1992 |
Robert Holdstock & Garry Kilworth |
The Ragthorn |
| 1993 | Peter Straub | The Ghost Village |
| 1994 | Terry Lamsley | Under the crust |
| 1995 | Elizabeth hand | Last Summer at Mars Hill |
| 1996 | Michael Swanwick | Radio waves |
| 1997 | Mark Helprin | A city in winter |
| 1998 | Richard Bowes | Streetcar Dreams |
| 1999 | Ian R. MacLeod | The Summer Isles |
| 2000s | ||
| year | author | Original title |
| 2000 | Jeff VanderMeer | The Transformation of Martin Lake |
| Laurel winter | Sky eyes | |
| 2001 |
Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem |
The man on the ceiling |
| 2002 | SP Somtow | The Bird Catcher |
| 2003 | Zoran Zivkovic | The Library |
| 2004 | Greer Gilman | A crowd of bone |
| 2005 | Michael Shea | The Growlimb |
| 2006 | Joe Hill | Voluntary Committal |
| 2007 | Jeffrey Ford | Botch Town |
| 2008 | Elizabeth hand | Illyria |
| 2009 | Richard Bowes | If Angels Fight |
| 2010s | ||
| year | author | Original title |
| 2010 | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts |
| 2011 | Elizabeth hand | The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon |
| 2012 | KJ Parker | A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong |
| 2013 | KJ Parker | Let Maps to Others |
| 2014 | Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages | Wakulla Springs |
| 2015 | Daryl Gregory | We Are All Completely Fine |
| 2016 | Kelly Barnhill | The Unlicensed Magician |
| 2017 | Kij Johnson | The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe |
| 2018 | Ellen Klages | Passing strange |
| 2019 | Kij Johnson | The privilege of the happy ending |
Short Fiction / Short Story (story / short story)
Here, narratives and short stories are usually offered together in a single category called Short Fiction (type: f ). If there is no short story among the nominated works, the category Short Story (Art: s ) is used instead.
| 1970s | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | Art | author | Original title |
| 1975 | f | Robert Aickman | Pages from a Young Girl's Journal |
| 1976 | f | Fritz Leiber | Belsen Express |
| 1977 | f | Russell Kirk | There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding |
| 1978 | f | Ramsey Campbell | The Chimney |
| 1979 | f | Avram Davidson | Naples |
| 1980s | |||
| year | Art | author | Original title |
| 1980 | s | Ramsey Campbell | Mackintosh Willy |
| Elizabeth A. Lynn | The Woman Who Loved the Moon | ||
| 1981 | f | Howard Waldrop | The Ugly Chickens |
| 1982 | s | Dennis Etchison | The Dark Country |
| Stephen King | Do the Dead Sing? | ||
| 1983 | f | Tanith Lee | The Gorgon |
| 1984 | s | Tanith Lee | Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) |
| 1985 | s | Alan Ryan | The Bones Wizard |
| Scott Baker | Still Life with Scorpion | ||
| 1986 | s | James P. Blaylock | Paper Dragons |
| 1987 | s | David J. Schow | Red light |
| 1988 | s | Jonathan Carroll | Friend's Best Man |
| 1989 | f | John M. Ford | Winter Solstice, Camelot Station |
| 1990s | |||
| year | Art | author | Original title |
| 1990 | s |
Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 1991 | s | Steven Millhauser | The illusionist |
| 1992 | s | Fred Chappell | The Somewhere Doors |
| 1993 | s | Joe Haldeman | Graves |
| Dan Simmons | This Year's Class Picture | ||
| 1994 | s | Fred Chappell | The lodger |
| 1995 | s | Stephen King | The Man in the Black Suit |
| 1996 | f | Gwyneth Jones | The Grass Princess |
| 1997 | f | James P. Blaylock | Thirteen Phantasms |
| 1998 | f | PD Cacek | Dust Motes |
| 1999 | s | Kelly Link | The Specialist's Hat |
| 2000s | |||
| year | Art | author | Original title |
| 2000 | f | Ian R. MacLeod | The Chop Girl |
| 2001 | s | Andy Duncan | The Pottawatomie Giant |
| 2002 | s | Albert E. Cowdrey | Queen for a day |
| 2003 | s | Jeffrey Ford | Creation |
| 2004 | f | Bruce Holland Rogers | Don Ysidro |
| 2005 | f | Margo Lanagan | Singing My Sister Down |
| 2006 | f | George Saunders | CommComm |
| 2007 | f | M. Rickert | Journey Into the Kingdom |
| 2008 | s | Theodora Goss | Singing of Mount Abora |
| 2009 | s | Kij Johnson | 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss |
| 2010s | |||
| year | Art | author | Original title |
| 2010 | s | Karen Joy Fowler | The Pelican Bar |
| 2011 | f | Joyce Carol Oates | Fossil figures |
| 2012 | s | Ken Liu | The Paper Menagerie |
| 2013 | s | Gregory Norman Bossert | The telling |
| 2014 | f | Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Prayer of Ninety Cats |
| 2015 | f | Scott Nicolay | Do You Like to Look at Monsters? |
| 2016 | f | Alyssa Wong | Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers |
| 2017 | f | GV Anderson | The stone creature |
| 2018 | s | Natalia Theodoridou | The Birding: A Fairy Tale |
| 2019 | f | Mel Kassel | Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake |
| Emma Törzs | Like a River Loves the Sky | ||
Anthology / Collection
Until 1987, the prize was awarded in a single category, which was initially called Collection / Anthology and later, in reverse order, Anthology / Collection (Art: A / C ). Since 1988, separate categories Anthology (Type: A ) and Collection (Type: C ) have been offered.
| 1970s | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | Art | Editor / Author | Original title |
| 1975 | A / C | Manly Wade Wellman | Worse Things Waiting |
| 1976 | A / C | Avram Davidson | The Inquiries of Dr. Eszterhazy |
| 1977 | A / C | Kirby McCauley | Frights |
| 1978 | A / C | Hugh B. Cave | Murgunstrumm and Others |
| 1979 | A / C | Charles L. Grant [Ed.] | Shadows |
| 1980s | |||
| year | Art | Editor / Author | Original title |
| 1980 | A / C | Jessica Amanda Salmonson [Ed.] | Amazons! |
| 1981 | A / C | Kirby McCauley [Ed.] | Dark Forces |
| 1982 | A / C |
Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold [Eds.] |
Elsewhere |
| 1983 | A / C | Charles L. Grant [Ed.] | Nightmare Seasons |
| 1984 | A / C | Robertson Davies | High spirits |
| 1985 | A / C | Clive Barker | Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. I-III |
| 1986 | A / C | Robin McKinley [Ed.] | Imaginary Lands |
| 1987 | A / C | James Tiptree, Jr. | Tales of the Quintana Roo |
| 1988 | A. |
Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz [Eds.] |
The Architecture of Fear |
| David G. Hartwell [Ed.] | The Dark Descent | ||
| C. | Lucius Shepard | The Jaguar Hunter | |
| 1989 | A. |
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling [Eds.] |
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection |
| C. | Harlan Ellison | Angry Candy | |
| Gene Wolfe | Storeys from the Old Hotel | ||
| 1990s | |||
| year | Art | Editor / Author | Original title |
| 1990 | A. |
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling [Eds.] |
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection |
| C. | Richard Matheson | Richard Matheson: Collected Stories | |
| 1991 | A. |
Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell [Eds.] |
Best New Horror |
| C. | Carol Emshwiller | The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories | |
| 1992 | A. |
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling [Eds.] |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection |
| C. | Lucius Shepard | The Ends of the Earth | |
| 1993 | A. | Dennis Etchison [Ed.] | MetaHorror |
| C. | Jack Cady | The Sons of Noah & Other Stories | |
| 1994 | A. |
Lou Aronica & Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell [Eds.] |
Full spectrum 4 |
| C. | Ramsey Campbell | Alone with the horrors | |
| 1995 | A. | Ellen Datlow [Ed.] | Little Deaths |
| C. | Bradley Denton |
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist |
|
| 1996 | A. |
A. Susan Williams & Richard Glyn Jones [Eds.] |
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women |
| C. | Gwyneth Jones | Seven Tales and a Fable | |
| 1997 | A. | Patrick Nielsen Hayden [Ed.] | Starlight 1 |
| C. | Jonathan Lethem | The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye | |
| 1998 | A. |
Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel [Eds.] |
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy |
| C. | Brian McNaughton | The Throne of Bones | |
| 1999 | A. |
Jack Dann & Janeen Webb [Eds.] |
Dreaming down under |
| C. | Karen Joy Fowler | Black glass | |
| 2000s | |||
| year | Art | Editor / Author | Original title |
| 2000 | A. |
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling [Eds.] |
Silver Birch, Blood Moon |
| C. | Charles de Lint | Moonlight and Vines | |
| Stephen R. Donaldson | Reave the Just and Other Tales | ||
| 2001 | A. | Sheree R. Thomas [Ed.] | Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora |
| C. | Andy Duncan | Beluthahatchie and Other Stories | |
| 2002 | A. | Dennis Etchison [Ed.] | The Museum of Horrors |
| C. | Nalo Hopkinson | Skin folk | |
| 2003 | A. |
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling [Eds.] |
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest |
|
Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre |
Leviathan Three | ||
| C. | Jeffrey Ford | The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories | |
| 2004 | A. | Rosalie Parker [Ed.] | Strange tales |
| C. | Elizabeth hand | Bibliomancy | |
| 2005 | A. |
Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden [Eds.] |
Acquainted with the night |
| Sheree R. Thomas [Ed.] | Dark Matter: Reading the Bones | ||
| C. | Margo Lanagan | Black Juice | |
| 2006 | A. | Marvin Kaye [Ed.] | The Fair Folk |
| C. | Bruce Holland Rogers | The Keyhole Opera | |
| 2007 | A. |
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling [Eds.] |
Salon Fantastique |
| C. | M. Rickert | Map of Dreams | |
| 2008 | A. | Ellen Datlow [Ed.] | Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural |
| C. | Robert Shearman | Tiny deaths | |
| 2009 | A. | Ekaterina Sedia [Ed.] | Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy |
| C. | Jeffrey Ford | The Drowned Life | |
| 2010s | |||
| year | Art | Editor / Author | Original title |
| 2010 | A. | Peter Straub [Ed.] | American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps / From the 1940s to Now |
| C. | Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya | There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales | |
| Gene Wolfe | The Very Best of Gene Wolfe / The Best of Gene Wolfe | ||
| 2011 | A. | Kate Bernheimer [Ed.] | My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me |
| C. | Karen Joy Fowler | What I Didn't See and Other Stories | |
| 2012 | A. | Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer [Eds.] | The weird |
| C. | Tim Powers | The Bible Repairman and Other Stories | |
| 2013 | A. | Danel Olson [Ed.] | Postscripts # 28 / # 29: Exotic Gothic 4 |
| C. | Joel Lane | Where Furnaces Burn | |
| 2014 | A. | George RR Martin & Gardner Dozois [Eds.] | Dangerous women |
| C. | Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Ape's Wife and Other Stories | |
| 2015 | A. | Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant [Eds.] | Monstrous Affections |
| C. | Angela Slatter | The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings | |
| C. | Helen Marshall | Gifts for the One Who Comes After | |
| 2016 | A. | Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles [Eds.] | She Walks in Shadows |
| C. | CSE Cooney | Bone Swans | |
| 2017 | A. | Jack Dann [ed.] | Dreaming in the Dark |
| C. | Jeffrey Ford | A Natural History of Hell | |
| 2018 | A. | Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman [Eds.] | The New Voices of Fantasy |
| C. | Jane Yolen | The Emerald Circus | |
| 2019 | A. | Irene Gallo [ed.] | Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction |
| C. | Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell | The Tangled Lands | |
Web links
- Award winner
- World Fantasy Awards , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
- World Fantasy Award , overview in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database