Monday, June 11, 2007

Blog in Exile: Mythopeic Award Nominees

Susan Palwick seems to be the first person to have announced the nominees for this year's Mythopoeic Awards, the winners of which will be announced at MythCon in Berkley, California the weekend of August 3rd.

And those nominees are:
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
  • Peter S. Beagle, The Line Between (Tachyon Publications)
  • Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu (Bloomsbury USA)
  • Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child (Nan A. Talese)
  • Patricia A. McKillip, Solstice Wood (Ace Books)
  • Susan Palwick, The Necessary Beggar (Tor)
  • Tim Powers, Three Days to Never (William Morrow)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children s Literature
  • Catherine Fisher, Corbenic (Greenwillow)
  • Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Spirits That Walk in Shadow (Viking)
  • Diana Wynne Jones, The Pinhoe Egg (Greenwillow)
  • Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death (Front Street)
  • Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (HarperTeen)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
  • Marjorie Burns, Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth (University of Toronto Press, 2005)
  • Verlyn Flieger, Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology (Kent State University Press, 2005)
  • Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner, The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
  • Simon Blaxland-de Lange, Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography (Temple Lodge, 2006)
  • Jerry Griswold, The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast (Broadview Press, 2004)
  • Charles Butler, Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper (Children's Literature Association & Scarecrow Press, 2006)
  • G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival (Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • Milly Williamson, The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy (Wallflower, 2006)
According to the press release:
The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2006 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 (2004–2006) 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.
Good luck to all of the nominees.

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