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2008 Mythopoeic Award Winners

By Ian Randal Strock

The Mythopoeic Society announced the winners of the 2008 Mythopoeic Awards on 17 August at Mythcon XXXIX at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut. A full description of the awards was published in this article, along with lists of all the nominees.

The winners are:

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature: Orphan's Tales (consisting of In the Night Garden and In the Cities of Coin and Spice) by Catherynne M. Valente (Spectra)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature: The entire seven-volume Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies: The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Pavlac Glyer, appendix by David Bratman (Kent State University Press)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies: The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous edited by T.A. Shippey (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)

Comments (1)


On August 25, 2008, Joan said: Respond

I read the first book in the Orphan's Tale and I believe that it was well worth the award.

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