Monday, December 31, 2001

2001 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

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Comments: In 2001 the Mythopoeic Awards came full circle after a fashion as Guy Gavriel Kay's two-part series The Sarantine Mosaic was nominated for the Best Adult Fiction Award. This nomination more or less symbolically takes the award back to its roots in a manner of speaking, as Kay's career in writing was started when he helped Christopher Tolkien edit The Silmarillion many years before. A large proportion of fantasy writers draw their inspiration from Tolkien, but the connection is rarely as clearly drawn as the one between Tolkien and Kay.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
The Innamorati by Midori Snyder

Other Nominees:
Forests of the Heart Charles de Lint
RavenShadow by Win Blevins
The Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors) by Guy Gavriel Kay

Best Children's Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun

Other Nominees:
Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
Boots and the Seven Leaguers by Jane Yolen
Growing Wings by Laurel Winter
Night Flying by Rita Murphy

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey

Other Nominees:
C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer & Mentor by Lionel Adey
The Crisis and the Quest: a Kierkegaardian Reading of Charles Williams by Stephen N. Dunning
J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances edited by George Makana Clark and Daniel Timmons
Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-Earth edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Winner:
King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack

Other Nominees:
The Fantasy Literature of England by C.N. Manlove
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales edited by Jack Zipes
The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840-1920 by Christine Poulson

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