I like the awards that, through their yearly lists of
nominees, challenge my reading habits and bring into my attention books that
otherwise I am unaware of or for one reason or another I pass them by with
feeble consideration. I believe that is the reason for the Shirley Jackson
Awards being my favorites and that is the reason for the Mythopoeic Awards gaining
more and more my attention. I am aware that the Mythopoeic Awards run since
1971, but only recently I’ve started to regard the lists of nominees more
closely and I discovered some very interesting shortlists there, as is the case
with this year’s list of finalists. The winners of the 2014 Mythopoeic Awards
will be announced during Mythcon 45, held between August 8th and 11th
at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for
Adult Literature:
“The
Ghost Bride” by Yangsze Choo (William Morrow)
“The
Ocean at the End of the Lane” by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow)
“Three
Parts Dead” by Max Gladstone (Tor)
“Sleepless
Knights” by Mark H. Williams (Atomic Fez Publishing)
“The
Golem and the Jinni” by Helene Wecker (Harper)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for
Children’s Literature:
“Ghoulish
Song” by William Alexander (Margaret K. McElderry)
“Doll
Bones” by Holly Black (Margaret K. McElderry)
“Killer
of Enemies” by Joseph Bruchac (Tu Books)
“Conjured”
by Sara Beth Durst (Walker Children’s)
“Shadows”
by Robin McKinley (Nancy Paulsen Books)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in
Inklings Studies:
“There
and Back Again: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Origins of the Hobbit” by Mark Atherton (I.B.
Tauris, 2012)
“C.S. Lewis
and the Middle Ages” by Robert Boenig (Kent State Univ.
Press, 2012)
“Tolkien
and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays” edited by Jason Fisher (McFarland,
2011)
“C.S.
Lewis—A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet” by Alister McGrath (Tyndale
House, 2013)
“Exploring
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit” by Corey Olsen (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2012)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and
Fantasy Studies:
“The
Book of Legendary Lands” by Umberto Eco, translated by Alastair McEwan (Rizzoli
Ex Libris, 2013)
“Dancing
the Tao: Le Guin and Moral Development” by Sandra J. Lindow (Cambridge
Scholars, 2012)
“Tree
of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North” by G. Romald Murphy (Oxford
Univ. Press, 2013)
“As
If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality” by
Michael Saler (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012)
“Critical
Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831” by David Sandner (Ashgate, 2011)
The
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel,
multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during
2013 that best exemplifies the spirit of the Inklings. Books are eligible for
two years after publication if not selected as a finalist during the first year
of eligibility. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own;
otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears. The
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for younger
readers (from Young Adults to picture books for beginning readers), in the
tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for eligibility are
otherwise the same as for the Adult Literature award. The question of which
award a borderline book is best suited for will be decided by consensus of
the committees.
The
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on Tolkien,
Lewis, and/or Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings
scholarship. For this award, books first published during the last three years
(2011–2013) are eligible, including finalists for previous years. The
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly
books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to more general
works on the genres of myth and fantasy. The period of eligibility is three
years, as for the Inklings Studies award.
The
winners of this year’s awards will be announced during Mythcon 45, to be held
from August 8-11, 2014, at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. A complete
list of Mythopoeic Award winners is available
on the Awards page.
The
finalists for the literature awards, text of recent acceptance speeches, and
selected book reviews are also listed in this on-line section. For more
information about the Mythopoeic Awards, please contact the Awards
Administrator: David D. Oberhelman, awards@mythsoc.org
Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees!
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