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World Fantasy Award—Novel

Literary award for science fiction or fantasy novels in English


Literary award for science fiction or fantasy novels in English

FieldValue
nameWorld Fantasy Award—Novel
awarded_forThe best fantasy story of 40,000 words or more published in English in the prior calendar year
presenterWorld Fantasy Convention
year1975
holderRobert Jackson Bennett (*The Tainted Cup*)
holder_labelMost recent winner
website[worldfantasy.org/awards/](http://www.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", and one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both fantasy and science fiction). The World Fantasy Award—Novel is given each year for fantasy novels published in English or translated into English. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novel if it is 40,000 words or longer; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths in the Short Fiction and Novella categories. The Novel category has been awarded annually since 1975.

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. The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties. The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October. Winners were presented with a statue in the form of a bust of H. P. Lovecraft through the 2015 awards; more recent winners receive a statuette of a tree.

During the 51 nomination years, 184 authors have had works nominated; 52 of them have won, including ties. Five authors have won twice: Gene Wolfe, out of eight nominations; Tim Powers, out of five; Patricia McKillip, out of four; Jeffrey Ford, out of three; and James K. Morrow for both of his nominations. Wolfe has the most nominations for an author who has won at least once, while Stephen King has the most nominations without winning, at nine, followed by Charles L. Grant at six and Jonathan Carroll at five.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; the other entries are the other nominees on the shortlist.

  • Winners
YearAuthorNovelPublisher(s)/publicationRef.[1975](1974-in-literature)[1976](1975-in-literature)[1977](1976-in-literature)[1978](1977-in-literature)[1979](1978-in-literature)[1980](1979-in-literature)[1981](1980-in-literature)[1982](1981-in-literature)[1983](1982-in-literature)[1984](1983-in-literature)[1985](1984-in-literature)[1986](1985-in-literature)[1987](1986-in-literature)[1988](1987-in-literature)[1989](1988-in-literature)[1990](1989-in-literature)[1991](1990-in-literature)[1992](1991-in-literature)[1993](1992-in-literature)[1994](1993-in-literature)[1995](1994-in-literature)[1996](1995-in-literature)[1997](1996-in-literature)[1998](1997-in-literature)[1999](1998-in-literature)[2000](1999-in-literature)[2001](2000-in-literature)[2002](2001-in-literature)[2003](2002-in-literature)[2004](2003-in-literature)[2005](2004-in-literature)[2006](2005-in-literature)[2007](2006-in-literature)[2008](2007-in-literature)[2009](2008-in-literature)[2010](2009-in-literature)[2011](2010-in-literature)[2012](2011-in-literature)[2013](2012-in-literature)[2014](2013-in-literature)[2015](2014-in-literature)[2016](2015-in-literature)[2017](2016-in-literature)[2018](2017-in-literature)[2019](2018-in-literature)[2020](2019-in-literature)[2021](2020-in-literature)[2022](2021-in-literature)[2023](2022-in-literature)[2024](2023-in-literature)[2025](2024-in-literature)
*Atheneum Books
*Merlin's Ring*Ballantine Books
Doubleday
**Bid Time Return*Viking Press
*Salem's Lot*Doubleday
**Doctor Rat*Alfred A. Knopf
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
*Dark Crusade*Warner
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Ballantine Books
Quartet, DAW Books
**Our Lady of Darkness*Berkley Books
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Doubleday
**Gloriana*Avon Publications
Charles Scribner's Sons
*Night's Master*DAW Books
Doubleday
Doubleday
**Watchtower*Berkley Books
Berkley Books
Atheneum Books
*Harpist in the Wind*Atheneum Books
Doubleday
St. Martin's Press
*Simon & Schuster
*Ariosto*Pocket Books
*Firelord*Doubleday
*Dark Forces* (Viking Press)
*Shadowland*Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
**Little, Big*Bantam Books
Timescape
Macmillan Publishers
Timescape
Viking Press
**Nifft the Lean*DAW Books
*Fevre Dream*Poseidon Press
Pocket Books
*Phantom*Atheneum Books
Timescape
*Timescape
Poseidon Press
*Lyonesse*Berkley Books
*Pet Sematary*Doubleday
*Tea with the Black Dragon*Bantam Books
Taplinger
**Bridge of Birds*St. Martin's Press
**Mythago Wood*Victor Gollancz
*Archer's Goon*Methuen Publishing
Viking Press
Viking Press
**Song of Kali*Bluejay Books
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Bantam Spectra
*Illywhacker*Harper & Row
Alfred A. Knopf
*Winterking*Atlantic Monthly Press
**Perfume*Alfred A. Knopf
*It*Viking Press
Tor Books
*Soldier of the Mist*Tor Books
*Strangers*Putnam Publishing Group
*Talking Man*Arbor House
J. M. Dent & Sons
**Replay*Arbor House
*Ægypt*Bantam Spectra
*Misery*Viking Press
*On Stranger Tides*Ace Books
*Seventh Son*Tor Books
*Swan Song*Pocket Books
*Weaveworld*Poseidon Press, William Collins, Sons
**Koko*E. P. Dutton, Viking Press
Bantam Spectra
*Fade*Victor Gollancz, Delacorte Press
Mark V. Ziesing, Ace Books
St. Martin's Press
*Sleeping in Flame*Legend, Doubleday
**Madouc*Underwood–Miller
*Carrion Comfort*Dark Harvest
Legend, Century
*In a Dark Dream*Tor Books
*Soldier of Arete*Tor Books
Ace Books
**Only Begotten Daughter*William Morrow and Company
**Thomas the Rhymer*William Morrow and Company
*Good Omens*Victor Gollancz, Workman Publishing Company
*Mary Reilly*Doubleday
*Tigana*Viking Press
**Boy's Life*Pocket Books
*Bone Dance*Ace Books
*Hunting the Ghost Dancer*HarperCollins
William Morrow and Company
*Outside the Dog Museum*Macdonald
Ace Books
**Last Call*William Morrow and Company
*Anno Dracula*Simon & Schuster, Carroll & Graf Publishers
*Briar Rose*Tor Books
*Photographing Fairies*Ballantine Books
*Was*HarperCollins, Alfred A. Knopf
**Glimpses*William Morrow and Company
*Drawing Blood*Delacorte Abyss
Roc Books
Millennium, Morrow AvoNova
*Lord of the Two Lands*Tor Books
*Skin*Delacorte Abyss
E. P. Dutton, Borderlands Press
**Towing Jehovah*Harcourt Brace
*Brittle Innings*Bantam Books
Harcourt Brace
*From the Teeth of Angels*HarperCollins, Doubleday
*Love & Sleep*Bantam Books
*Waking the Moon*HarperCollins, HarperPrism
*Touchstone Books
*All the Bells on Earth*Ace Books
*Expiration Date*HarperCollins, Tor Books
*Red Earth and Pouring Rain*Little, Brown and Company
*Requiem*Michael Joseph, Signet Creed
AvoNova
**Godmother Night*St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press
Doubleday
*Devil's Tower*Del Rey Books
HarperCollins Voyager, Bantam Spectra
DAW Books
*Shadow of Ashland*Forge Books
*Avon Publications
*American Goliath*St. Martin's Press
(nomination withdrawn)Harcourt Brace
*Dry Water*Avon Publications
Tor Books
*Trader*Tor Books
*HarperFlamingo
Forge Books
*Mockingbird*Ace Books
*Sailing to Sarantium*Earthlight, Viking Press
*Someplace to Be Flying*Tor Books
**Thraxas*Orbit Books
*Gardens of the Moon*Bantam Books
Ace Books
Ace Books
*Tamsin*Roc Books
Forge Books
**Declare*Subterranean Press, William Morrow and Company
**Galveston*Ace Books
Scholastic, Alfred A. Knopf
Bantam Spectra
*Lord of Emperors*Viking Press, HarperPrism
*Perdido Street Station*Macmillan Publishers, Del Rey Books
*Harcourt
*American Gods*William Morrow and Company
*Brown Harvest*Four Walls Eight Windows
Eos
*From the Dust Returned*William Morrow and Company
Tor Books
Tor Books
*Victor Gollancz
**Ombria in Shadow*Ace Books
*Fitcher's Brides*Tor Books
William Morrow and Company
Macmillan Publishers, Del Rey Books
**Tooth and Claw*Tor Books
Prime Books
*Fudoki*Tor Books
Ace Books
*Veniss Underground*Prime Books
**Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell*Bloomsbury Press
*Iron Council*Del Rey Books, Macmillan Publishers
*Perfect Circle*Small Beer Press
Putnam Publishing Group, Victor Gollancz
Tor Books
**Kafka on the Shore*Harvill Press, Alfred A. Knopf
Victor Gollancz, Atria
*Lunar Park*Alfred A. Knopf, Macmillan Publishers
*Od Magic*Ace Books
Tor Books
*Vellum*Macmillan Publishers, Del Rey Books
**Soldier of Sidon*Tor Books
Victor Gollancz, Bantam Spectra
*Lisey's Story*Charles Scribner's Sons, Hodder & Stoughton
*In the Night Garden*Bantam Spectra
Bantam Spectra, Small Beer Press
**Ysabel*Viking Press, Roc Books
*Fangland*Penguin Press
Tor Books
Earthling Publications
*Territory*Tor Books
*William Morrow and Company
**Tender Morsels*Allen & Unwin, Alfred A. Knopf
HarperCollins, Bloomsbury Press
Tor Books
*Pandemonium*Del Rey Books
*Macmillan Publishers, Del Rey Books
*Blood of Ambrose*Pyr
*Finch*Underland Press
*In Great Waters*Jonathan Cape, Del Rey Books
Roc Books
**Who Fears Death*DAW Books
Orbit Books
*Redemption in Indigo*Small Beer Press
Victor Gollancz, Doubleday
*Under Heaven*Viking Press, Roc Books
*Zoo City*Jacana Media, Angry Robot
**Osama*DAW Books
*[11/22/63](11-22-63)*Charles Scribner's Sons
*Among Others*Tor Books
Tor Books
*Those Across the River*Ace Books
**Alif the Unseen*Grove, Corvus
Orbit Books
*Some Kind of Fairy Tale*Victor Gollancz
Roc Books
*Crandolin*Chomu Press
*Small Beer Press
*Dust Devil on a Quiet Street*Lethe Press
Tor Books
William Morrow and Company
Harper
Tor Books
*Random House
*Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy*Farrar, Straus and Giroux
*City of Stairs*Jo Fletcher Books
Tor Books
*My Real Children*Tor Books
*Sceptre
Orbit Books
*Uprooted*Del Rey Books
*Savages*Subterranean Press
Alfred A. Knopf
William Morrow and Company
*Redhook Books
*Borderline*Saga Press
*Lovecraft Country*Harper
Orbit Books
*Roadsouls*Aqueduct Press
*Spiegel & Grau
**Jade City*Orbit Books
Harper Voyager
*Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr*Saga Press
*Spoonbenders*Alfred A. Knopf
Saga Press
**Witchmark*Tor.com Publishing
*In the Night Wood*John Joseph Adams Books
MCD
Harper Voyager
*Trail of Lightning*Saga Press
**Queen of the Conquered*Orbit Books
Redhook Books/Orbit UK
Orbit Books
*Gideon the Ninth*Tor.com Publishing
Pantheon Books/Harvill Secker
(translator)
**Trouble the Saints*Tor Books
*Piranesi*Bloomsbury Press
Saga Press/Titan UK
*Mexican Gothic*Del Rey Books/Jo Fletcher UK
Erewhon/Orbit UK
*Orbit Books
*Black Water Sister*Ace Books/Macmillan Publishers
Inkyard Press
Nightfire Books/Viper Books
Tor.com Publishing/Orbit UK
**Saint Death's Daughter*Solaris Books
*Babel*Harper Voyager
Redhook Books/Orbit UK
*Siren Queen*Tordotcom
*Spear*Tordotcom
*Saga Press/Titan UK
*Looking Glass Sound*Viper Books/Nightfire Books
Random House
*Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon*DAW Books/Victor Gollancz
*Starling House*Tor Books
*Witch King*Tordotcom
*Del Rey Books/Hodderscape
Henry Holt and Company/Quercus UK
Counterpoint/Titan UK
Viking Press/Del Rey UK
Tachyon Publications

Notes

References

References

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