Mythopoeic Awards Winners By Year
science fiction awards database
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— 2025 — | |
| adult literature | The Melancholy of Untold History, Minsoo Kang |
| young adult literature | The Isles of the Gods duology, Amie Kaufman |
| children's literature | Island of Whispers, Frances Hardinge, illustrated by Emily Gravett |
| Inklings studies | The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, eds. |
| myth and fantasy studies | Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, Stefan Ekman |
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— 2024 — | |
| adult literature | Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe, Emma Törzs |
| young adult literature | Unraveller, Frances Hardinge |
| children's literature | Moth Keeper, K. O'Neill |
| Inklings studies | Law, Government, and Sopciety in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, José María Miranda Boto |
| myth and fantasy studies | An Introduction to Fantasy, Matthew Sangster |
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— 2023 — | |
| adult literature | When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb |
| children's literature | The Ogress and the Orphans, Kelly Barnhill |
| Inklings studies | Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence, Paul S. Fiddes |
| myth and fantasy studies | Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery |
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— 2022 — | |
| adult literature | Or What You Will, Jo Walton |
| children's literature | (tie) Root Magic, Eden Royce |
| children's literature | (tie) Pahua and the Soul Stealer, Lori M. Lee |
| Inklings studies | Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages, Holly Ordway |
| myth and fantasy studies | The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination, Philip Ball |
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— 2021 — | |
| adult literature | The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune |
| children's literature | A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher |
| Inklings studies | Tolkien's Lost Chaucer, John M. Bowers |
| myth and fantasy studies | Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien, Anna Vaninskaya |
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— 2020 — | |
| adult literature | Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss |
| children's literature | Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee |
| Inklings studies | "The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Amy Amendt-Raduege |
| myth and fantasy studies | A Modernist Fantasy: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic, James Gifford |
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— 2019 — | |
| adult literature | Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik |
| children's literature | Bob, Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead |
| Inklings studies | There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger |
| myth and fantasy studies | Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology, Dimitra Fimi |
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— 2018 — | |
| adult literature | Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley |
| children's literature | Frogkisser!, Garth Nix |
| Inklings studies | The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain, Sřrina Higgins |
| myth and fantasy studies | Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, Michael Levy & Farah Mendlesohn |
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— 2017 — | |
| adult literature | Kingfisher, Patricia A. McKillip |
| children's literature | The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and their Holy Dog, Adam Gidwitz |
| Inklings studies | The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski |
| myth and fantasy studies | Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church, Richard Firth Green |
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— 2016 — | |
| adult literature | Uprooted, Naomi Novik |
| children's literature | Castle Hangnail, Ursula Vernon |
| Inklings studies | Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, Grevel Lindop |
| myth and fantasy studies | The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, Jamie Williamson |
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— 2015 — | |
| adult literature | Tales from Rugosa Coven, Sarah Avery |
| children's literature | A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd |
| Inklings studies | C.S. Lewis and the Middle Ages, Robert Boenig |
| myth and fantasy studies | Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth, Brian Attebery |
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— 2014 — | |
| adult literature | The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker |
| children's literature | Doll Bones, Holly Black |
| Inklings studies | Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays, Jason Fisher, ed. |
| myth and fantasy studies | Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North, G. Ronald Murphy |
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— 2013 — | |
| adult literature | Digger (volumes 1-6), Ursula Vernon |
| children's literature | Vessel, Sarah Beth Durst |
| Inklings studies | Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger |
| myth and fantasy studies | Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, Nancy Marie Brown |
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— 2012 — | |
| adult literature | The Uncertain Places, Lisa Goldstein |
| children's literature | The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman |
| Inklings studies | Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity, Carl Phelpstead |
| myth and fantasy studies | The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films, Jack Zipes |
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— 2011 — | |
| adult literature | Redemption in Indigo, Karen Lord |
| children's literature | The Queen's Thief series: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner |
| Inklings studies | Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Michael Ward |
| myth and fantasy studies | The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale, Caroline Sumpter |
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— 2010 — | |
| adult literature | Lifelode, Jo Walton |
| children's literature | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin |
| Inklings studies | Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, Dimitra Fimi |
| myth and fantasy studies | One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card, Marek Oziewicz |
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— 2009 — | |
| adult literature | Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone, Carol Berg |
| children's literature | Graceling, Kristin Cashore |
| Inklings studies | The History of the Hobbit, Part One, Mr Baggins; Part Two, Return to Bag-End, John D. Rateliff |
| myth and fantasy studies | Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper, Charles Butler |
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— 2008 — | |
| adult literature | Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden; In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne M. Valente |
| children's literature | The Harry Potter Series, J. K. Rowling |
| Inklings studies | The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, Diana Pavlac Glyer, appendix by David Bratman |
| myth and fantasy studies | The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous, T. A. Shippey, ed. |
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— 2007 — | |
| adult literature | Solstice Wood, Patricia A. McKillip |
| children's literature | Corbenic, Catherine Fisher |
| Inklings studies | The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, Christina Schull & Wayne G. Hammond |
| myth and fantasy studies | Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival, G. Ronald Murphy |
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— 2006 — | |
| adult literature | Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman |
| children's literature | The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand; The Golem's Eye; Ptolemy's Gate, Jonathan Stroud |
| Inklings studies | The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull |
| myth and fantasy studies | National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England, Jennifer Schacker |
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— 2005 — | |
| adult literature | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke |
| children's literature | A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett |
| Inklings studies | War and the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Janet Brennan Croft |
| myth and fantasy studies | Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, Stephen Thomas Knight |
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— 2004 — | |
| adult literature | Sunshine, Robin McKinley |
| children's literature | The Hollow Kingdom, Clare B. Dunkle |
| Inklings studies | Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, John Garth |
| myth and fantasy studies | The Myth of the American Superhero, John Shelton Lawrence & Robert Jewett |
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— 2003 — | |
| adult literature | Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip |
| children's literature | Summerland, Michael Chabon |
| Inklings studies | Beowulf and the Critics, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D. C. Drout |
| myth and fantasy studies | Fairytale in the Ancient World, Graham Anderson |
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— 2002 — | |
| adult literature | The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold |
| children's literature | The Ropemaker, Peter Dickinson |
| Inklings studies | Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, Verlyn Flieger & Carl F. Hostetter, eds. |
| myth and fantasy studies | The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales, G. Ronald Murphy |
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— 2001 — | |
| adult literature | The Innamorati, Midori Snyder |
| children's literature | Aria of the Sea, Dia Calhoun |
| Inklings studies | J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, Tom Shippey |
| myth and fantasy studies | King Arthur in America, Alan Lupack & Barbara Tepa Lupack |
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— 2000 — | |
| adult literature | Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle |
| children's literature | The Folk Keeper, Franny Billingsley |
| Inklings studies | Roverandom, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull |
| myth and fantasy studies | Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, Carole G. Silver |
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— 1999 — | |
| adult literature | Stardust, Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess |
| children's literature | Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones |
| Inklings studies | C.S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide, Walter Hooper |
| myth and fantasy studies | A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature, Donna R. White |
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— 1998 — | |
| adult literature | The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, A. S. Byatt |
| children's literature | “Young Merlin”: Passager; Hobby; Merlin, Jane Yolen |
| scholarship/Inkling | A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to "Faërie", Verlyn Flieger |
| scholarship/myth | The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, eds. |
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— 1997 — | |
| fantasy | The Wood Wife, Terri Windling |
| scholarship/Inkling | The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, Charles A. Huttar & Peter Schakel, eds. |
| scholarship/myth | When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development, Lois Rostow Kuznets |
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— 1996 — | |
| adult fantasy | Waking the Moon (revised), Elizabeth Hand |
| children's fantasy | The Crown of Dalemark, Diana Wynne Jones |
| scholarship/Inkling | J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull |
| scholarship/myth | From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, Marina Warner |
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— 1995 — | |
| adult fantasy | Something Rich and Strange, Patricia A. McKillip |
| children's fantasy | Owl in Love, Patrice Kindl |
| scholarship/Inkling | C.S. Lewis in Context, Doris T. Myers |
| scholarship/myth | Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World, James Roy King |
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— 1994 — | |
| adult fantasy | The Porcelain Dove, Delia Sherman |
| children's fantasy | The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, Suzy McKee Charnas |
| scholarship/Inkling | J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography, Wayne G. Hammond & Douglas A. Anderson |
| scholarship/myth | Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature, Kath Filmer, ed. |
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— 1993 — | |
| adult fantasy | Briar Rose, Jane Yolen |
| children's fantasy | Knight's Wyrd, Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald |
| scholarship/Inkling | Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy, David C. Downing |
| scholarship/myth | Strategies of Fantasy, Brian Attebery |
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— 1992 — | |
| adult fantasy | A Woman of the Iron People, Eleanor Arnason |
| children's fantasy | Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie |
| scholarship/Inkling | Word and Story in C.S. Lewis, Peter J. Schakel & Charles A. Huttar, eds. |
| scholarship/myth | The Victorian Fantasists, Kath Filmer, ed. |
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— 1991 — | |
| fantasy | Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner |
| scholarship/Inkling | Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times, George Sayer |
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— 1990 — | |
| fantasy | The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers |
| scholarship/Inkling | The Annotated Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson, annotator |
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— 1989 — | |
| fantasy | Unicorn Mountain, Michael Bishop |
| scholarship/Inkling | The Return of the Shadow, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien |
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— 1988 — | |
| fantasy | Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card |
| scholarship/Inkling | C.S. Lewis, Joe R. Christopher |
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— 1987 — | |
| fantasy | The Folk of the Air, Peter S. Beagle |
| scholarship/Inkling | J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion, Richard Purtill |
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— 1986 — | |
| fantasy | Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart |
| scholarship/Inkling | Charles Williams, Poet of Theology, Glen Cavaliero |
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— 1985 — | |
| fantasy | Cards of Grief, Jane Yolen |
| scholarship/Inkling | Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis, Peter J. Schakel |
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— 1984 — | |
| fantasy | When Voiha Wakes, Joy Chant |
| scholarship/Inkling | The Road to Middle-earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology, Tom Shippey |
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— 1983 — | |
| fantasy | The Firelings, Carol Kendall |
| scholarship/Inkling | Companion to Narnia, Paul F. Ford |
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— 1982 — | |
| fantasy | Little, Big, John Crowley |
| scholarship/Inkling | The Inklings, Humphrey Carpenter |
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— 1981 — | |
| fantasy | Unfinished Tales, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien |
| scholarship/Inkling | Christopher Tolkien |
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— 1976 — | |
| scholarship/Inkling | Charles W.S.Williams, A Checklist, Lois Glenn |
| scholarship/Inkling | C.S. Lewis, An Annotated Checklist of Writings About Him and His Works, Joe R. Christopher & Joan K. Olstling |
| scholarship/Inkling | Tolkien Criticism, Richard C. West |
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— 1975 — | |
| fantasy | A Midsummer Tempest, Poul Anderson |
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— 1974 — | |
| fantasy | The Hollow Hills, Mary Stewart |
| scholarship/Inkling | C.S. Lewis, Mere Christian, Kathryn A. Lindskoog |
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— 1973 — | |
| fantasy | The Song of Rhiannon, Evangeline Walton |
| scholarship/Inkling | Master of Middle-earth, Paul H. Kocher |
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— 1972 — | |
| fantasy | Red Moon and Black Mountain, Joy Chant |
| scholarship/Inkling | Walter Hooper |
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— 1971 — | |
| fantasy | The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart |
| scholarship/Inkling | Mary McDermott Shideler |
| scholarship/Inkling | C. S. Kilby |
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