2016 Mythopoeic Awards Winners
The Mythopoeic Society announced the 2016 Mythopoeic Awards winners at Mythcon 47, August 7, 2016, at the Omni San Antonio Hotel at the Colonnade in San Antonio TX.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
- Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
- The Darkest Part of the Forest, Holly Black (Little, Brown)
- The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
- A Thousand Nights, E.K. Johnston (Disney/Hyperion)
- Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older (Arthur A. Levine)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
- Castle Hangnail, Ursula Vernon (Dial)
- Circus Mirandus, Cassie Beasley (Dial)
- Serafina and the Black Cloak, Robert Beatty (Disney/Hyperion)
- The Girl Who Could Not Dream, Sarah Beth Durst (Clarion)
- Tiffany Aching Series: Wee Free Men; Hat Full of Sky; Wintersmith; I Shall Wear Midnight; The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
- Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, Grevel Lindop (Oxford University Press)
- C. S. Lewis — A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet, Alistair E. McGrath (Tyndale House)
- Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis, Abigail Santamaria (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Story of Kullervo, J.R.R. Tolkien; Verlyn Flieger, ed. (HarperCollins)
- Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Together with Sellic Spell, J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien, ed. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
- The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballatine Adult Fantasy Series, Jamie Williamson (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings, Stefan Ekman (Wesleyan University Press)
- George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity, Daniel Gabelman (Baylor University Press)
- Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain, Melanie Keene (Oxford University Press)
- English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History, Heather O’Donoghue (Oxford University Press)
