{"id":594,"date":"2010-07-14T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2010-07-14T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T21:03:24","slug":"2010-mythopoeic-fantasy-awards-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/2010-mythopoeic-fantasy-awards-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lang=\"x-unicode\">\n<p>You may recall that on Monday 5 I posted on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/05\/reading-the-mythopoeic-award-finalists\/\">&#8220;Reading the Mythopoeic Children&#8217;s Award Finalists&#8221;<\/a> <\/strong>and ranked my own personal order for the five finalists, ahead of the official decision, which was released Monday, 12 July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cover_wtmmtm.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-449\" title=\"cover_wtmmtm\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cover_wtmmtm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>In the end I did not quite accord with the judges, who have given the Children&#8217;s Award to <strong>Grace Lin&#8217;s<\/strong> <em><strong>Where the Mountain Meets the Moon<\/strong><\/em> (Little, Brown).\u00a0 I gave the overall palm to Malinda Lo&#8217;s <em>Ash<\/em>, with <em>Where the Mountain Meets the Moon<\/em> as my second choice&#8212;but with the following commentary:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; . . . <em> <\/em>I found this a charming story and I felt it was one of the strongest contenders in terms of weaving elements of traditional Chinese folklore into an entertaining and adventurous quest for the young heroine.\u00a0 I also gave it bonus points for the clear thread within the story of values such as compassion and mercy, in terms of being written in the \u201cspirit of the Inklings\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I am still delighted with the outcome and pleased that the Awards gave me the impetus to read all 5 finalists.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, my congratulations to all the winners, with the full list as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature<\/strong>: Jo Walton, <em>Lifelode<\/em> (NESFA Press)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children\u2019s Literature<\/strong>: Grace Lin, <em>Where the Mountain Meets the Moon<\/em> (Little, Brown)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies<\/strong>: Dimitra Fimi, <em>Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies<\/strong>: Marek Oziewicz, <em>One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L\u2019Engle and Orson Scott Card<\/em> (McFarland, 2008)<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythsoc.org\/\">Mythopoeic Society<\/a> for giving us the awards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that on Monday 5 I posted on &#8220;Reading the Mythopoeic Children&#8217;s Award Finalists&#8221; and ranked my own personal order for the five finalists, ahead of the official decision, which was released Monday, 12 July. In the end I did not quite accord with the judges, who have given the Children&#8217;s Award to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}