Well, it's that time of year again: Mythopoeic Awards: 2011 Finalists Announced. This list pretty much always has some fairy tale related materials and other stuff just as wonderful, of course, so I will post the entire list. Only the fairy tale related stuff will get covers though as a compromise. Because there is so much on this list that I love which means what I haven't read I will probably at least like very much. Congrats to everyone, especially to Heather Tomlinson who I think stops by here periodically...
Fantasy Awards
Adult Literature
•Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven (Roc)
•Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo (Small Beer Press)
•Patricia A. McKillip, The Bards of Bone Plain (Ace)
•Devon Monk, A Cup of Normal (Fairwood Press)
•Sharon Shinn, Troubled Waters (Ace)
Children’s Literature
•Catherine Fisher, Incarceron and Sapphique (Dial)
•Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (HarperCollins)
•Polly Shulman, The Grimm Legacy (Putnam Juvenile)
•Heather Tomlinson, Toads and Diamonds (Henry Holt)
•Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen’s Thief series, consisting of The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow Books)
Scholarship Awards
Inklings Studies
•Bradford Lee Eden, ed., Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien (McFarland, 2010)
•Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, eds., Tolkien on Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes (HarperCollins, 2008)
•Douglas Charles Kane, Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion (Lehigh Univ. Press, 2009)
•Steve Walker, The Power of Tolkien’s Prose: Middle-earth’s Magical Style (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
•Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)
Myth and Fantasy Studies
•Don W. King, ed., Out of my Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman (Eerdmans Pub., 2009)
•Ursula K. Le Guin, Cheek by Jowl (Aqueduct Press, 2009)
•Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2008)
•Leslie A. Sconduto, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity through the Renaissance (McFarland, 2008)
•Caroline Sumpter, The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Hi, Heidi-- thanks for the shout-out! I've really been enjoying the Bluebeard posts. The one about AT 955 especially sparked some ideas, but the response I wrote originally vanished into the ether... hope this one will go through OK!
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