Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Mythopoeic Awards
Awards presented by the Mythopoeic Society in fiction and scholarship categories; the award itself is a statuette of a seated lion. Eligibility for the fiction awards has customarily been book publication in the year preceding the award, though re-issues can be eligible. In the early years the scholarship award was occasionally given for a body of work, but eligibility was eventually limited to books published during the previous three years. In 1992 the fiction award was divided into an adult and a children's category, and a second scholarship award concerning general myth and fantasy was added to the first, which had always been limited to studies of work by the Inklings. The fiction awards, however, are given to works "in the spirit of the Inklings". [DB]
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 S 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
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
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
Scholarship Award (from 1992 award is for 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 A 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 J 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 ed Christopher Tolkien
1990: The Annotated Hobbit ed Douglas A Anderson
1991: Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer
1992: Word and Story in C.S. Lewis ed 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 Douglas A Anderson
1995: C.S. Lewis in Context by Doris T Myers
Scholarship Award (Myth and Fantasy Studies):
1992: The Victorian Fantasists ed Kath Filmer
1993: Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
1994: Twentieth-Century Fantasists ed Kath Filmer
1995: Old Tales and New Truths by James Roy King
This entry is taken from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) edited by John Clute and John Grant. It is provided as a reference and resource for users of the SF Encyclopedia, but apart from possible small corrections has not been updated.