Sunday 4 November 2001

2001 World Fantasy Awards Winners

Winners and Accepters (left to right): standing: Joe Haldeman (for Philip José Farmer) Andy Duncan, William Senior (for Tom Shippey), Charles N. Brown (for Shaun Tan), Bill Sheehan, Tim Powers; seated: Jeanne Cavelos (for Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem), Sheree R. Thomas, Susan Allison (for Sean Stewart), Suzanne Robinson (for Frank Frazetta). Photo by Beth Gwinn.

The 2001 World Fantasy Awards were presented Sunday afternoon November 4 during a banquet at the World Fantasy Convention in Montreal, Canada. Judges for this year's awards were Steven Erikson, Paula Guran, Diana Wynne Jones, Graham Joyce, and Jonathan Strahan.

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Philip José Farmer

Frank Frazetta

NOVEL (tie)

Declare, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow 2001)

Galveston, Sean Stewart (Ace)

NOVELLA

The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (American Fantasy)

SHORT FICTION

"The Pottawatomie Giant", Andy Duncan (Sci Fiction 1 Nov 2000)

ANTHOLOGY

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, Sheree R. Thomas, ed. (Warner Aspect)

COLLECTION

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories, Andy Duncan (Golden Gryphon)

ARTIST

Shaun Tan

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Tom Shippey (for J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, HarperCollins UK; Houghton Mifflin 2001)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

Bill Sheehan (for At The Foot Of The Story Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub, Subterranean Press)

A report on the convention, with photos, will appear in the December Locus. Nominations for this year's awards were released in August.