Griffith Wins 2022 Ray Bradbury Prize
The winner of this year’s Ray Bradbury Prize for “Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction” was announced as part of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes:
- WINNER: Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
- The Book of the Most Precious Substance, Sarah Gran (Dreamland)
- The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook)
- The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD)
- Liberation Day, George Saunders (Random House)
The prize is sponsored by the Ray Bradbury Literary Works and “honors and extends Bradbury’s literary legacy by celebrating and elevating the writers working in his field today.” This year’s jurors were Craig Laurance Gidney, Tim Pratt (chair), and Lucy A. Snyder.
Finalists of genre interest were also announced in other categories, including Paradais by The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (Morrow) in the Mystery/Thriller category, and All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill) with Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen) in the Young Adult category.
Winners were honored at the LA Times Festival of Books in a ceremony held April 21, 2023 at USC in Los Angeles CA. For more information, including the complete list of winners and finalists, see the prize website.
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