Mythopoeic Awards

The Mythopoeic Awards for literature and literary studies are given by the Mythopoeic Society to authors of outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas.

See also: mythopoeia (genre)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award

• 1971 - The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
• 1972 - Red Moon and Black Mountain by Joy Chant
• 1973 - The Song of Rhiannon by Evangeline Walton
• 1974 - The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
• 1975 - A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
• 1981 - Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 1982 - Little, Big by John Crowley
• 1983 - The Firelings by Carol Kendall
• 1984 - When Voiha Wakes by Joy Chant
• 1985 - Cards of Grief by Jane Yolen
• 1986 - Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
• 1987 - The Folk of the Air by Peter Beagle
• 1988 - Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
• 1989 - Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop
• 1990 - The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
• 1991 - Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• 1992 - A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason
• 1993 - Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
• 1994 - The Porcelain Dove by Delia Sherman
• 1995 - Something Rich and Strange by Patricia A. McKillip
• 1996 - Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
• 1997 - The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
• 1998 - The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt
• 1999 - Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
• 2000 - Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
• 2001 - The Innamorati by Midori Snyder
• 2002 - The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 2003 - Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip
• 2004 - Sunshine by Robin McKinley
• 2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• 2006 - Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
• 2007 - Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
• 2008 - The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne M. Valente
• 2009 - Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone by Carol Berg
• 2010 - Lifelode by Jo Walton
• 2011 - Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

• 1992 - Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
• 1993 - Knight's Wyrd by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
• 1994 - The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas
• 1995 - Owl in Love by Patrice Kindl
• 1996 - The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
• 1997 - (Combined with Adult Literature award)
• 1998 - Young Merlin trilogy (consisting of Passager, Hobby, and Merlin) by Jane Yolen
• 1999 - Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
• 2000 - The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
• 2001 - Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun
• 2002 - The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
• 2003 - Summerland by Michael Chabon
• 2004 - The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle
• 2005 - A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
• 2006 - The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
• 2007 - Corbenic by Catherine Fisher
• 2008 - Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• 2009 - Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• 2010 - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• 2011 - The Queen’s Thief Series consisting of The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (Inklings Studies)

• 1971 - C. S. Kilby; Mary McDermott Shideler
• 1972 - Walter Hooper
• 1973 - Master of Middle-earth by Paul H. Kocher
• 1974 - C. S. Lewis, Mere Christian by Kathryn Lindskoog
• 1975 - C. S. Lewis: A Biography by Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper
• 1976 - Tolkien Criticism by Richard C. West; C. S. Lewis, An Annotated Checklist by Joe R. Christopher and Joan K. Ostling; Charles W. S. Williams, A Checklist by Lois Glenn
• 1981 - Christopher Tolkien
• 1982 - The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
• 1983 - Companion to Narnia by Paul F. Ford
• 1984 - The Road to Middle-earth by T. A. Shippey
• 1985 - Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis by Peter J. Schakel
• 1986 - Charles Williams, Poet of Theology by Glen Cavaliero
• 1987 - J. R. R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality and Religion by Richard Purtill
• 1988 - C. S. Lewis by Joe R. Christopher
• 1989 - The Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
• 1990 - The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson
• 1991 - Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer
• 1992 - Word and Story in C. S. Lewis, edited by Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar
• 1993 - Planets in Peril by David C. Downing
• 1994 - J. R. R. Tolkien, A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond with the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson
• 1995 - C. S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers
• 1996 - J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• 1997 - The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, ed. by Charles A. Huttar and Peter Schakel
• 1998 - A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger
• 1999 - C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper
• 2000 - Roverandom by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
• 2001 - J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
• 2002 - Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
• 2003 - Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D. C. Drout
• 2004 - Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
• 2005 - War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft
• 2006 - The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• 2007 - The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• 2008 - The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Glyer; appendix by David Bratman
• 2009 - The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end
• 2010 - Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
• 2011 - Planet Narnia by Michael Ward

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (General Myth and Fantasy Studies)

• 1992 - The Victorian Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
• 1993 - Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
• 1994 - Twentieth-Century Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
• 1995 - Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World by James Roy King
• 1996 - From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner
• 1997 - When Toys Come Alive by Lois Rostrow Kuznets
• 1998 - The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant
• 1999 - A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature by Donna R. White
• 2000 - Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness by Carole G. Silver
• 2001 - King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack
• 2002 - The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy
• 2003 - Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson
• 2004 - The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
• 2005 - Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Thomas Knight
• 2006 - National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England by Jennifer Schacker
• 2007 - Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.
• 2008 - The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous by Tom Shippey
• 2009 - Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper by Charles Butler
• 2010 - One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz
• 2011 - The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale by Caroline Sumpter

External links

• Complete list of Mythopoeic Award Winners