World Fantasy Awards Winners

Winners of this year's World Fantasy Awards for works published in 2005 were announced this evening at a banquet held at the World Fantasy Convention in Austin, Texas.

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Stephen Fabian

John Crowley

NOVEL

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (Harvill; Knopf)

NOVELLA

Voluntary Committal, Joe Hill (Subterranean Press)

SHORT FICTION

"CommComm", George Saunders (The New Yorker 1 Aug 2005)

ANTHOLOGY

The Fair Folk, Marvin Kaye, ed. (SFBC)

COLLECTION

The Keyhole Opera, Bruce Holland Rogers (Wheatland Press)

ARTIST

James Jean

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

David Howe & Stephen Walker (for Telos Books)

Judges for this year's awards were Steve Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria Strauss, Jeff VanderMeer, and Andrew Wheeler.