World Fantasy Awards: Os vencedores

Esteve a decorrer desde o passado dia 31 de Outubro a World Fantasy Convention, na cidade britânica de Brighton - onde tiveram lugar as cerimónias de entrega dos World Fantasy Awards 2013. Atribuídos com periodicidade anual desde 1975, os World Fantasy Awards distinguem o que de melhor se fez na fantasia literária durante o ano anterior - e já foram atribuídos a autores tão diversos como Richard Matheson, Michael Moorcock, Dan Simmons ou Ursula K. Le Guin, entre muitos outros. Os vencedores deste ano foram:

World Fantasy Special Award:

• William F. Nolan e Brian Aldiss

Best Novel

• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
• The Killing Moon, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chômu)

Best Novella

• Let Maps to Others, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer ’12)
• Hand of Glory, Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
• The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon)
• The Skull, Lucius Shepard (The Dragon Griaule)
• Sky, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)

Best Short Story

• The Telling, Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
• A Natural History of Autumn, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
• The Castle That Jack Built, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
• Breaking the Frame, Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
• Swift, Brutal Retaliation, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)

Anthology

• Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4, ed. Danel Olson (PS Publishing)
• Epic: Legends of Fantasy, ed. John Joseph Adams (Tachyon)
• Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, ed. Eduardo Jiménez Mayo e Chris N. Brown (Small Beer)
• Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, ed Jonathan Oliver (Solaris)
• Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Random House)

Best Collection

• Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
• At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
• The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
• Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
• Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)

Best Artist

• Vincent Chong
• Didier Graffet and Dave Senior
• Kathleen Jennings
• J.K. Potter
• Chris Roberts

Special Award — Professional

• Lucia Graves, pela tradução de The Prisoner of Heaven (Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Harper), de Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Peter Crowther & Nicky Crowther, pela PS Publishing
• Adam Mills, Ann VanderMeere e Jeff VanderMeer pelo website Weird Fiction Review
• Brett Alexander Savory e Sandra Kasturi pela ChiZine Publications
• William K. Schafer pela Subterranean Press

Special Award — Non-professional

• S.T. Joshi por Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volumes 1 & 2 (PS Publishing)
• Scott H. Andrews pelo Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• L. Timmel Duchamp pela Aqueduct Press
• Charles A. Tan pelo blogue Bibliophile Stalker
• Jerad Walters pela Centipede Press
• Joseph Wrzos por Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration (Centipede Press)

Life Time Achievement Award 

• Susan Cooper e Tanith Lee

Fonte: Tor.com