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The latest winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel of the year is featured below. We also have a list of all previous winners, links to other World Fantasy Awards and to a our index of the dozens of book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees. The World Fantasy Awards are given annually for outstanding achievement by writers and artists in the field of fantasy fiction and nonfiction.
The Latest Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Novel of the Year 2008 - Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (2009 winner will be announced October 2009)
All Past Winners of the World Fantasy Award for Novel of the Year
1976 - Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson
1977 - Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle
1979 - Gloriana by Michael Moorcock
1980 - Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn
1981 - The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
1982 - Little, Big by John Crowley
1983 - Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea
1984 - The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
1985 - Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock | Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
1986 - Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
1987 - Perfume by Patrick Suskind
1988 - Replay by Ken Grimwood
1989 - Koko by Peter Straub
1990 - Lyonesse: Madouc by Jack Vance
1991 - Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow | Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
1992 - Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
1993 - Last Call by Tim Powers
1994 - Glimpses by Lewis Shiner
1995 - Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
1996 - The Prestige by Christopher Priest
1997 - Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack
1998 - The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
1999 - The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
2000 - Thraxas by Martin Scott
2001 - Declare by Tim Powers | Galveston by Sean Stewart
2002 - The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
2003 - The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce | Ombria In Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip
2004 - Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
2005 - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2006 - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2007 - Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe
2008 - Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
2009 - Award will be announced October 2009
World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement > > >
The Official World Fantasy Award Website
(Please visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of all Book Awards on Happy Dead Trees.)
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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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