Comments: In 2011, an amazing thing happened at the World Fantasy Awards. A black woman wrote a brilliant fantasy novel and got nominated in the Best Novel category, and then lost the award, beaten out by an equally brilliant fantasy novel written by a different black woman. I'm not going to say that the almost completely pervasive white male author bias of the World Fantasy Awards was washed away by this event - the fact that 2011's results are so notable is convincing evidence that it has not been. But this result shows that after decades of mostly ignoring the non-white and non-male portions of the world the World Fantasy Awards have started to move towards a little more diversity.
Best Novel
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Other Nominees:
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Best Novella
The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon by Elizabeth Hand (reviewed in Errantry: Strange Stories)
Other Nominees:
Bone and Jewel Creatures by Elizabeth Bear
The Broken Man by Michael Byers
The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window by Rachel Swirsky
The Mystery Knight by George R.R. Martin
The Thief of Broken Toys by Tim Lebbon
Best Short Fiction
Fossil-Figures by Joyce Carol Oates
Other Nominees:
Beautiful Men by Christopher Fowler
Booth's Ghost by Karen Joy Fowler
Ponies by Kij Johnson
Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us by Mercurio D. Rivera
Best Anthology
My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me edited by Kate Bernheimer
Other Nominees:
Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror edited by S.T. Joshi
Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas
Stories: All-New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
Swords & Dark Magic edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders
The Way of the Wizard edited by John Joseph Adams
Best Collection
What I Didn't See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler
Other Nominees:
The Ammonite Violin & Others by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Holiday by M. Rickert
Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter
The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer
Lifetime Achievement
Peter S. Beagle
Angélica Gorodischer
Other Nominees:
None
Best Artist
Kinuko Y. Craft
Other Nominees:
Vincent Chong
Richard A. Kirk
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Special Award, Professional
Marc Gascoigne
Other Nominees:
John Joseph Adams
Lou Anders
Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi
Stéphane Marsan and Alain Névant
Special Award, Non-Professional
Alisa Krasnostein
Other Nominees:
Stephen Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, and Amanda Foubister
Matthew Kressel
Charles Tan
Lavie Tidhar
Go to previous year's nominees: 2010
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2012
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