Where and When:
Mythcon XL,
Los Angeles CA :
July 17, 2009
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July 20, 2009
Eligibility Year:
2008
Inklings Studies
- Winner: The History of the Hobbit, Part One, Mr Baggins; Part Two, Return to Bag-End, John D. Rateliff (Houghton Mifflin)
- Charles Williams: Alchemy and Imagination, Gavin Ashenden (Kent State)
- The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth, Elizabeth A. Wittingham (McFarland)
- Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Michael Ward (Oxford)
- Tolkien on Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes, Verlyn Flieger & Douglas A. Anderson (HarperCollins)
Myth And Fantasy Studies
- Winner: Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper, Charles Butler (Scarecrow Press)
- Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Jason Marc Harris (Ashgate)
- One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card, Marek Oziewicz (McFarland)
- Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the Frank L. Baum Books, Richard Carl Tuerk (McFarland)
- Rhetorics of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press)