The World Fantasy Awards are nominated by members of the World Fantasy Convention and selected by a panel of judges to acknowledge excellence in fantasy writing and art.
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Novel: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
Short Fiction: "Pages from a Young Girl's Diary" by Robert Aickman
Anthology/Collection: Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman
Artist: Lee Brown Coye
Special Award - Professional: Betty and Ian Ballantine
Special Award - Non-Professional: Stuart David Schiff
Life Achievement: Robert Bloch
Novel: Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson
Short Fiction: "Belsen Express" by Fritz Leiber
Anthology/Collection: The Enquiries Of Dr. Esterhazy by Avram Davidson
Artist: Frank Franzetta
Special Award - Professional: Donald Grant
Special Award - Non-Professional: Carcosa Press - Karl Edward Wagner, D. Drake
Life Achievement: Fritz Leiber
Novel: Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle
Short Fiction: "There's a Long-Long Trail A-Winding" by Russell Kirk
Anthology/Collection: Freights by Kirby McCauley
Artist: Roger Dean
Special Award - Professional: Alternate World Recordings
Special Award - Non-Professional: Whispers - Stuart David Schiff
Life Achievement: Ray Bradbury
Novel: Our Lady Of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
Short Fiction: "The Chimney" by Ramsey Campbell
Anthology/Collection: Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave
Artist: Lee Brown Coye
Special Award - Professional: E. F. Bleiler
Special Award - Non-Professional: Robert Weinberg
Convention Award: Glenn Lord
Life Achievement: Frank Belknap Long
Novel: Gloriana by Michael Moorcock
Short Fiction: "Naples" by Avram Davidson
Anthology/Collection: Shadows by Charles L. Grant, ed.
Artist: (tie) Alicia Austin, Dale Enzenbacher
Special Award - Professional: Edward L. Ferman
Special Award - Non-Professional: Donald H. Tuck
Convention Award: Kirby McCauley
Life Achievement: Jorge Luis Borges
Novel: Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Short Fiction: (tie) "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by Elizabeth A. Lynn
"Mackintosh Willy" by Ramsey Campbell
Anthology/Collection: Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Artist: Don Maitz
Special Award - Professional: Donald M. Grant
Special Award - Non-Professional: Fantasy Newsletter - Paul Allen
Convention Award: Stephen King
Life Achievement: Manly Wade Wellman
Novel: The Shadow Of The Torturer by Gene Wolfe
Short Fiction: "The Ugly Chicken" by Howard Waldrop
Anthology/Collection: Dark Forces by Kifby McCauley, ed.
Artist: Michael Whelan
Special Award - Professional: Donald A. Wollheim
Special Award - Non-Professional: Shayol Pat Cadigan and Arnold Fenner
Convention Award: Gahan Wilson
Life Achievement: C. L. Moore
Novel: Little, Big by John Crowley
Novella: "The Fire When it Comes" by Parke Godwin
Short Fiction: "The Dark Country" by Dennis Etchison
Anthology/Collection: Elsewhere by Terri Windling and Mark Arnold, eds.
Artist: Michael Whelan
Special Award - Professional: Edward L. Ferman
Special Award - Non-Professional: Fantasy Newsletter by Robert Collins
Convention Award: Joseph Payne Brennan and Roy Krenkel
Life Achievement: Italo Calvino
Novel: Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea
Novella: (tie) "Confess the Seasons" by Charles L. Grant
"Beyond All Measure" by Karl Edward Wagner
Short Fiction: "The Gorgon" by Tanith Lee
Anthology/Collection: Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant
Artist: Michael Whelan
Special Award - Professional: Donald M. Grant
Special Award - Non-Professional: Whispers, Stuart David Schiff
Convention Award: Arkham House
Life Achievement: Ronald Dahl
Novel: The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
Novella: "Black Air" by Kim Stanley Robinson
Short Fiction: "Elle Est Troi (La Mort)" by Tanith Lee
Anthology/Collection: High Spirits by Robertson Davies
Artist: Stephen Gervais
Special Award - Professional: Ian and Betty Ballantine
Joy Chant and George Sharp, The High Kings
Special Award - Non-Professional: Fantasy Tales, Stephen Jones and David A. Sutton
Convention Award: Donald M. Grant
Life Achievement: (as voted by the previous winners)
L. Sprague de Camp
, Richard Matheson,
E. Hoffman Price, Jack Vance, and Donald Wandrei
Novel: (tie) The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
Novella: "The Unconquered Country" by Geoff Ryman
Short Fiction: "Still Life with Scorpion" by Scott Baker
Anthology/Collection: Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. I-III by Clive Barker
Artist: Edward Gorey
Special Award - Professional: Chris Van Allsburg, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Special Award - Non-Professional: Whispers, Stuart David Schiff
Convention Award: Evangeline Walton
Life Achievement: Theodore Sturgeon
Novel: Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
Novella: "Naldelman's God" by T. E. D. Klein
Short Fiction: "Paper Dragons" by James Blaylock
Anthology/Collection: Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley, ed.
Artist: (tie) Jeff Jones
Thomas Canty
Special Award - Professional: Pay LoBrutto, Doubleday
Special Award - Non-Professional: Douglas E. Winter
Convention Award: Donald A. Wollheim
Life Achievement: Avram Davidson
Novel: Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Novella: "Hatrack River" by Orson Scott Card
Short Fiction: "Red Light" by David J. Schow
Anthology/Collection: Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree, Jr.
Artist: Robert Gould
Special Award - Professional: Jane Yolen, "Favorite Tales from Around the World"
Special Award - Non-Professional: (tie) Jeff Connor, Scream Press
W. Paul Ganley, Weirdbook
Convention Award: Andre Norton
Life Achievement: Jack Finney
Novel: Replay by Ken Grimwood
Novella: "Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. LeGuin
Short Fiction: "Friends' Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll
Anthology: (tie) The Architecture of Fear
by Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz, eds.,
Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell, ed.
Collection: The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
Artist: J. K. Potter
Special Award - Professional: David G. Hartwell, Arbor/Tor Anthologies
Special Award - Non-Professional: (tie) The Horror Show, David B. Silva
American Fantasy, Robert and Nancy Garcia,
Life Achievement: Everett F. Bleiler
Novel: Koko by Peter Straub
Novella: "The Skin Trade" by George R. R. Martin
Short Fiction: "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" by John M. Ford
Anthology: The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds.
Collection: (tie) Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
Stories from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe
Artist: Edward Gorey
Special Award - Professional: (tie) A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction Fantasy Artists Robert Weinberg and Terri Windling
Special Award - Non-Professional: Pulphouse Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith
Life Achievement: Evangeline Walton
Novel: Madouc by Jack Vance
Novella: "Great Work of Time" by John Crowley
Short Fiction: "The Illusionist" by Stephen Millhauser
Anthology: The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
Collection: Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson
Artist: Tom Canty
Life Achievement: R. A. Lafferty
Novel: (tie) Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Novella: "Bones" by Pat Murphy
Short Fiction: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
Anthology: Best New Horror by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell (ed.)
Collection: The Start of the End of it All and Other Stories by ed. Carol Emshwiller
Artist: Dave McKean
Special Award/Professional: Arnie Fenner
Special Award/Non-Professional: Cemetary Dance, Richard Chizmar (ed.)
Life Achievement: Ray Russell
Novel: Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
Novella: "The Ragthorn" by Robert Holdstock & Garry Kilworth
Short Fiction: "The Somewhere Doors" by Fred Chappell
Anthology: The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.
Collection: The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard
Artist: Tim Hildebrandt
Special Award/Professional: Weird Tales George Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer (eds.)
Special Award/Non-Professional: Weirdbook W. Paul Ganley
Life Achievement: Edd Cartier
Novel: Last Call by Tim Powers
Novella: "The Ghost Village" by Peter Straub
Short Fiction: (tie) "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons
"Graves" by Joe Haldeman
Anthology: metahorror by Dennis Etchison
Collection: The Sons of Noah and Other Stories by Jack Cady
Special Award/Professional: Jeanne Cavelos, Dell Abyss editor
Special Award/Non-Professional: Doug and Tomi Lewis, Roadkill Press
Artist: James Gurney
Life Achievement: Harlan Ellison
Novel: Glimpses by Lewis Shiner
Novella: "Under the Crust" by Terry Lamsley
Short Fiction: "The Lodger" by Fred Chappell
Anthology: Full Spectrum 4 edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, and Betsy Mitchell
Collection: Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
Special Award/Professional: Underwood-Miller, for publishing
Special Award/Non-Professional: Marc Michaud, for Necronomicon Press
Artist: (tie) Alan Clarke, J.K. Potter
Life Achievement: Jack Williamson
Novel: Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
Novella: "Last Summer at Mars Hills" by Elizabeth Hand
Short Fiction: "The Man in the Black Suit" by Stephen King
Anthology: Little Deaths edited by Ellen Datlow
Collection: The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton
Special Award/Professional: Ellen Datlow for editing
Special Award/Non-Professional: Bryan Cholfin for Broken Mirrors Press
Artist: Jacek Yerka
Novel: The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Novella: "Radio Waves" by Michael Swanwick
Short Fiction: "The Grass Princess" by Gwyneth Jones
Anthology: The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women, A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (eds.)
Collection: Seven Tales and a Fable by Gwyneth Jones
Artist: Gahan Wilson
Special Award/Professional: Richard Evans, for contributions to fantasy
Special Award/Non-Professional: Marc Michaud, for Necronomicon Press
Life Achievement: Gene Wolfe
Novel: Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack
Novella: "A City in Winter" by Mark Helprin
Short Fiction: "Thirteen Phantasms" by James P. Blaylock
Anthology: Starlight 1, Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Collection: The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem
Artist: Moebius
Special Award/Professional: The Psychotronic Video Guide by Michael J.Weldon
Special Award/Non-Professional: Barbara & Christopher Roden, for Ash-Tree Press.
Life Achievement: Madeleine L'Engle
The recipients of the 1998 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Monterey, CA on November 1, 1998.
Novel: The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford (Avon)
Novella: "Streetcar Dreams" by Richard Bowes (F&SF, 4/97)
Short Fiction: "Dust Motes" by P.D. Cacek (Gothic Ghosts, Tor)
Anthology: Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, Ed. Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel (White Wolf Borealis)
Collection: The Throne of Bones, Brian McNaughton (Terminal Fright)
Artist: Alan Lee
Special Award/Professional: The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute and John Grant (eds.) (Orbit, St. Martin's)
Non-Professional: Fedogan & Bremer, for book publishing
Life Achievement: (tie) Edward L. Ferman for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Andre Norton
The recipients of the 1999 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Providence, RI on November 7, 1999. Photos available.
Novel: The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich (HarperFlamingo)
Novella: "The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's, Nov 1998)
Short Fiction: "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link (Event Horizon Nov 15, 1998)
Anthology: Dreaming Down-Under Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, eds. (HarperCollins Australia/Voyager)
Collection: Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (Henry Holt)
Artist: Charles Vess
Special Award/Professional: Jim Turner -- Golden Gryphon Press
Non-Professional: Richard Chizmar for Cemetery Dance Publications
Life Achievement: Hugh Cave
The recipients of the 2000 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Corpus Christi, TX on October 29, 2000.
Novel: Thraxas by Martin Scott (Orbit)
Novella: "The Transformation of Martin Lake" by Jeff VanderMeer (Palace Corbie 8) and
"Sky Eyes" by Laurel Winter (F&SF 3/99)
Short Fiction: "The Chop Girl" by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's 12/99)
Anthology: Silver Birch Blood Moon Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling, eds. (Avon)
Collection: Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint (Tor) and
Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (Bantam Spectra)
Artist: Jason Van Hollander
Special Award/Professional: Gordon Van Gelder for editing St. Martin's and F&SF
Non-Professional: British Fantasy Society
Life Achievement: Marion Zimmer Bradley and Michael Moorcock
The recipients of the 2001 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in early November 2001.
Novel: (tie) Declare by Tim Powers (Subterranean Press) and Galveston by Sean Stewart (Ace Books)
Novella: "The Man on the Ceiling" by Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (American Fantasy)
Short Fiction: "The Pottawatomie Giant", Andy Duncan (Sci Fiction, 11/01/00)
Anthology: Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, edited by Sheree R. Thomas (Warner Aspect)
Collection: Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan (Golden Gryphon)
Artist: Shaun Tan
Special Award/Professional: Tom Shippey for J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (HarperCollins UK)
Non-Professional: Bill Sheehan for At The Foot Of The Story Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub (Subterranean Press)
Life Achievement: Frank Frazetta & Philip Jose Farmer
The recipients of the 2002 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, MN on November 3, 2002.
Novel: The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
Novella: "The Bird Catcher," by S.P. Somtow (The Museum of Horrors)
Short Fiction: "Queen for a Day," by Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF Oct/Nov 2001)
Anthology: The Museum of Horrors by Dennis Etchison, ed. (Leisure)
Collection: Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson (Warner Aspect)
Artist: Allen Koszowski
Special Award/Professional: (tie) Jo Fletcher (for editing the Fantasy Masterworks series, Gollancz) and Stephen Jones (for editing)
Non-Professional: Raymond Russell & Rosalie Parker (for Tartarus Press)
Life Achievement: Forrest J Ackerman and George Scithers
The recipients of the 2003 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Washington, DC on November 2, 2003.
Novel: (tie) The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce (Gollancz) and
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
Novella: "The Library," by Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)
Short Fiction: "Creation," by Jeffrey Ford (F&SF May 2002)
Anthology: (tie) The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
Leviathan Three, Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, eds. (Ministry of Whimsy Press)
Collection: The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
Artist: Tom Kidd
Special Award/Professional: Gordon Van Gelder (for F&SF))
Special Award Non-Professional: Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen & Benjamin Cossel (for Night Shade Books)
Life Achievement: Donald M. Grant & Lloyd Alexander
The recipients of the 2004 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Tempe, Arizona on October 31, 2004.
Novel: Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (Tor)
Novella: "A Crowd of Bone" by Greer Gilman (Trampoline: an Anthology, Small Beer)
Short Fiction: "Don Ysidro" Bruce Holland Rogers (Polyphony 3, Wheatland)
Anthology: Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker, ed. (Tartarus Press)
Collection: Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
Artist: (tie) Donato Giancola & Jason Van Hollander
Special Award/Professional: Peter Crowther for PS Publishing
Special Award Non-Professional: Ray Russell/Rosalie Parker for Tartarus Press
Life Achievement: Stephen King & Gahan Wilson
The recipients of the 2005 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin on November 6, 2005.
Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
Novella: "The Growlimb" by Michael Shea (F&SF, 1/2004)
Short Fiction: "Singing My Sister Down" (Black Juice, Allen & Unwin Australia)
Anthology: Acquainted with the Night ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash Tree Press) amd Dark Matter: Reading The Bones ed. Sheree R. Thomas (Warner Aspect) (tie)
Collection: Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia)
Artist: John PIcacio
Special Award/Professional: S. T. Joshi (for scholarship)
Special Award Non-Professional: Robert Morgan (for Sarob Press)
Life Achievement: Tom Doherty & Carol Emshwiller
The recipients of the 2006 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Austin, Texas on November 4, 2006.
Novel: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Harvill; Knopf)
Novella: "Voluntary Committal" by Joe Hill (Subterranean Press)
Short Fiction: "CommComm" by George Saunders (The New Yorker, 08/01/05)
Anthology: The Fair Folk ed. Marvin Kaye (Science Fiction Book Club)
Collection: The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (Wheatland Press)
Artist: James Jean
Special Award/Professional: Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)
Special Award Non-Professional: David Howe and Stephen Walker (for Telos Books)
Life Achievement: Stephen Fabian and John Crowley
The recipients of the 2007 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, New York on November 4, 2007.
Novel: Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Novella: "Botch Town" by Jeffrey Ford (Empire of Ice Cream, Golden Gryphon)
Short Fiction: "Journey Into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert (F&SF, 5/06)
Anthology: Salon Fantastique ed. Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling (Thunder's Mouth)
Collection: Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
Artist: Shaun Tan
Special Award/Professional: Ellen Asher (for work at SFBC)
Special Award Non-Professional: Gary K. Wolfe (for reviews and criticism in Locus and elsewhere)
Life Achievement: Betty Ballantine and Diana Wynne Jones
The recipients of the 2008 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in November 2008.
Novel: Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay [Viking Canada/Penguin Roc]
Novella: "Illyria" Elizabeth Hand [PS Publishing]
Short Fiction: "Singing of Mount Abora" Theodora Goss [Logorrhea, Bantam Spectra]
Anthology: Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by Ellen Datlow [Tor]
Collection: Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman [Comma Press]
Artist: Edward Miller
Special Award/Professional: Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing)
Special Award Non-Professional: Midori Snyder and Terri Windling (for Endicott Studios Website)
Life Achievement: Leo and Diane Dillon, Patricia McKillip
The recipients of the 2009 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, California. Judges were Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson, Delia Sherman
Novel: The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)
Novella: "If Angels Fight" by Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)
Short Fiction: "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7/08)
Anthology: Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)
Collection: The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
Artist: Shaun Tan
Special Award/Professional: Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)
Special Award Non-Professional: Michael J. Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)
Life Achievement: Ellen Asher, Jane Yolen