The World Fantasy Awards were announced at the conclusion of the World Fantasy Convention on Sunday evening in Toronto (that’s our Monday morning, NZ and Australian time.)

Probably the most interesting aspect of the result from my point of view was that this must be almost the first major international award Jo Walton’s Amongst Others was nominated for that it did not win.

I am fairly certain, too, that the “Best Novel” category winner, Lavie Tidhar’s Osama is a smaller press publication–not that a smaller, specialist press publication winning is unprecedented, but it is nice to see it happening.

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Novel:
Winner: • Osama, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
• Those Across the River, Christopher Buehlman (Ace)
• 11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
• A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

Novella

Winner: “A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong,” K.J. Parker (Subterranean Winter 2011)
• “Near Zennor,” Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
• “Alice Through the Plastic Sheet,” Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors)
• “Rose Street Attractors,” Lucius Shepard (Ghosts by Gaslight)
•  “Silently and Very Fast,” Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA Press; Clarkesworld)

Short Fiction:
Winner:  “The Paper Menagerie,” Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
• “X for Demetrious,” Steve Duffy (Blood and Other Cravings)
• “Younger Women,” Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean Summer 2011)
• “A Journey of Only Two Paces,” Tim Powers (The Bible Repairman and Other Stories)
• “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees,” E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)

Anthology:
Winner: The Weird, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Corvus; Tor, published May 2012)
• Blood and Other Cravings, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• A Book of Horrors, Stephen Jones, ed. (Jo Fletcher Books)
• The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Harper Voyager US)
• Gutshot, Conrad Williams, ed. (PS Publishing)

Collection:
Winner: The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Tachyon)
•  Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga)
• Two Worlds and In Between, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
•  After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)
• Mrs Midnight and Other Stories, Reggie Oliver (Tartarus)

Artist:
Winner: John Coulthart
•  Julie Dillon
•  Jon Foster
•  Kathleen Jennings
•  John Picacio

Special Award Professional:
Winner: Eric Lane, for publishing in translation – Dedalus books
•  John Joseph Adams, for editing – anthology and magazine
•  Jo Fletcher, for editing – Jo Fletcher Books
•  Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine Publications
•  Jeff VanderMeer & S.J. Chambers, for The Steampunk Bible

Special Award Non-Professional:
Winner: Raymond Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
•  Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan & Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld
•  Cat Rambo, for Fantasy
•  Charles Tan, for Bibliophile Stalker blog
•  Mark Valentine, for Wormwood

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The winners of this year’s Lifetime Achievement award were authors:

Alan Garner and

George R.R. Martin.