The winners of this year’s World Fantasy Awards were announced at a ceremony following the closing banquet at the just-concluded World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio. As previously announced, Brian Lumley, Terry Pratchett, and Peter Straub were given Life Achievement Awards (Lumley and Straub were present to receive theirs in person).
The judging panel that determined this year’s winners was comprised of: Greg Ketter, Kelly Link, James Minz, Jürgen Snoeren, Gary K. Wolfe, and Peter Dennis Pautz.
Thanks to Prime Books‘ Sean Wallace and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction‘s Gordon Van Gelder for reporting on the rest of the awards for us.
The winners are:
Best Novel: The City & The City by China Miéville (Macmillan UK/Del Rey)
Best Novella: “Sea-Hearts” by Margo Lanagan (X6)
Best Short Story: “The Pelican Bar” by Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
Best Anthology: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now edited by Peter Straub (Library of America)
Best Collection (tie): There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
     The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (PS/Tor) [edited 1 November, per Gordon Van Gelder’s comment]
Best Artist: Charles Vess
Special Award, Professional: Jonathan Strahan (for editing anthologies)
Special Award, Non-Professional: Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
Related articles previously published on SFScope:
Lumley, Pratchett, and Straub to receive World Fantasy Award Life Achievement Awards (14 October 2010)
2010 World Fantasy Award Nominees (1 September 2010)