World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology | |
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Awarded for | The best anthology of fantasy stories by multiple authors published in English in the prior calendar year |
Presented by | World Fantasy Convention |
First awarded | 1988 |
Currently held by | George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois (Dangerous Women) |
Official website | worldfantasy.org/awards/ |
The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year. The awards have been described by book critics such as The Guardian as a "prestigious fantasy prize",[1] and one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both fantasy and science fiction).[2][3] The World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology is given each year for anthologies of fantasy stories by multiple authors published in English. An anthology can have any number of editors, and works in the anthology may have been previously published; awards are also given out for collections of works by a single author in the collection category. The World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology has been awarded annually since 1988, though from 1977 through 1987 anthologies were admissible as nominees in the collection category. During the ten years they were admissible for that category they won the award seven times and represented 38 of the 56 nominations.[4]
World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner.[4][5] The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors[6] and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties.[4] The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October.[5] Winners are presented with a statue in the form of a bust of H. P. Lovecraft.[1]
During the 27 nomination years, 98 editors have had works nominated; 30 of them have won, including co-editors. Only three editors have won more than once. Ellen Datlow has won eight times out of 30 nominations, the most of any editor; Terri Windling has won six times out of 18 nominations, all of the nominations as a co-editor with Datlow; and Dennis Etchison has won twice out of three nominations. After Datlow and Windling, the editors with the most nominations are Stephen Jones, who has won once out of fourteen nominations, and David Sutton and Martin H. Greenberg, who each have been nominated six times without winning. Fourteen editors in total have been nominated more than twice.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the anthology was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the editor's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.
* Winners
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Flood, Alison (2014-09-17). "World Fantasy awards pressed to drop HP Lovecraft trophy in racism row". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2015-01-30.
- ↑ Tan, Corrie (2013-09-17). "'It's not like I can sell awards for money'". The Star. Star Publications. Archived from the original on 2013-09-24. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
- ↑ Hermann, Brenda (1991-12-20). "Comic Book Wins Fiction Award For First, And Maybe Last, Time". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Company. Archived from the original on 2013-09-24. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "World Fantasy Award Judges". World Fantasy Awards Administration. Archived from the original on 2013-01-13. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
- ↑ Walling, René (2011-06-28). "The Coming of the Great Old Ones: A Statistical Look at the World Fantasy Awards for Best Novel". Tor.com. Tor Books. Archived from the original on 2013-08-22. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1988 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1989 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1990 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1991 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1992 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1993 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1994 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1995 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1996 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1997 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1998 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1999 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2000 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2001 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2002 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2003 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2004 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2005 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2006 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2007 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2008 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2009 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2010 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 30.4 30.5 "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2011 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 31.4 "Sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2012". Locus. Archived from the original on 2014-03-14. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 "Sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2013". Locus. Archived from the original on 2014-03-14. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 33.5 "World Fantasy Awards Winners 2014". Locus. 2014-11-09. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
External links
- World Fantasy Convention official site
- World Fantasy Awards, complete list of all winning and nominated works
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