World Fantasy Award Winners: Bernheimer and Craft

It's Kate Bernheimer hour here on the SurLaLune blog with my previous post about her time as author-in-residence at SDSU today and tomorrow. So while she is on our minds, I wanted to congratulate her and the authors who appear in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, edited by Bernheimer, for winning this year's World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. I am several days late on this but it's an honor that shouldn't be overlooked.

There weren't many fairy tale representatives on the nominations list this year, but Bernheimer's book won and another SurLaLune favorite, Kinuko Y. Craft, received recognition as the Artist this year.

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners, of course!

Mythopoeic Awards: 2011 Winners Announced

   

The Mythopoeic Awards 2011 Winners were announced this week and a fairy tale title received the nonfiction honor. I am happy for that win--and no, I haven't read the book--and thrilled that Megan Whalen Turner also won for The Queen's Thief series. It is one of my favorites and she is always on auto buy for me.

Myth & Fantasy Studies

The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) by Caroline E. Sumpter

Children’s Literature

 

The Thief (The Queen's Thief, Book 1)
The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, Book 2)
The King of Attolia
A Conspiracy of Kings (Thief of Eddis)

Adult Literature

Redemption in Indigo: a novel by Karen Lord

Inklings Studies

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward

Mythopoeic Awards: 2011 Finalists Announced

Well, it's that time of year again: Mythopoeic Awards: 2011 Finalists Announced. This list pretty much always has some fairy tale related materials and other stuff just as wonderful, of course, so I will post the entire list. Only the fairy tale related stuff will get covers though as a compromise. Because there is so much on this list that I love which means what I haven't read I will probably at least like very much. Congrats to everyone, especially to Heather Tomlinson who I think stops by here periodically...

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

•Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven (Roc)
•Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo (Small Beer Press)
•Patricia A. McKillip, The Bards of Bone Plain (Ace)
•Devon Monk, A Cup of Normal (Fairwood Press)
•Sharon Shinn, Troubled Waters (Ace)

Children’s Literature

 

•Catherine Fisher, Incarceron and Sapphique (Dial)
•Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (HarperCollins)
•Polly Shulman, The Grimm Legacy (Putnam Juvenile)
•Heather Tomlinson, Toads and Diamonds (Henry Holt)
•Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen’s Thief series, consisting of The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow Books)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

•Bradford Lee Eden, ed., Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien (McFarland, 2010)
•Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, eds., Tolkien on Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes (HarperCollins, 2008)
•Douglas Charles Kane, Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion (Lehigh Univ. Press, 2009)
•Steve Walker, The Power of Tolkien’s Prose: Middle-earth’s Magical Style (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
•Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

•Don W. King, ed., Out of my Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman (Eerdmans Pub., 2009)
•Ursula K. Le Guin, Cheek by Jowl (Aqueduct Press, 2009)
•Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2008)
•Leslie A. Sconduto, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity through the Renaissance (McFarland, 2008)
•Caroline Sumpter, The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)