Die Mythopoeic Society hat die Shortlists der diesjährigen Mythopoeic Awards veröffentlicht. Die Siegertitel werden auf dem Mythcon 54 verkündet, der vom 24. bis zum 27. Juli 2026 in Weatherford, Oklahoma, stattfinden wird.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
- The Charlatan Duology, Holly Black (Tor)
- Audition for the Fox, Martin Cahill (Tachyon)
- The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking) ==> The Bright Sword (Fischer TOR, 04/25)
- Snake-Eater, T. Kingfisher (47North)
- The West Passage, Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom)
- Water Moon, Samantha Sotto Yambao (Del Rey) ==> Water Moon (Limes, 08/25)
- The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor) ==> Der Phönix und der Dämon (Heyne, 01/27)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Young Adult Literature
- The Corruption of Hollis Brown, K. Ancrum (HarperCollins)
- The Leaving Room, Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends)
- The Little Thieves series, Margaret Owen (Henry Holt & Co.)
- On the Wings of La Noche, Vanessa L. Torres (Knopf)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
- The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest, Aubrey Hartman (Little, Brown)
- The Village Beyond the Mist, Sachiko Kashiwaba, tr. Avery Fischer Udagawa (Yonder)
- The Island of Forgotten Gods, Victor Pinñeiro (Sourcebooks Young Readers)
- The Misewa Saga, David A. Robertson (Tundra; Puffin Canada)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
- Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Cartographies, Anahit Behrooz (Bloomsbury Academic)
- The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation, Michael D.C. Drout (Norton)
- A Real Taste for Fairy-Stories, Verlyn Flieger (Walking Tree)
- Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, Thomas P. Hillman (Kent State University Press)
- Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation, Giuseppe Pezzini (Cambridge UP 2025)
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics, Hamish Williams (Bloomsbury Academic)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
- Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works, Patrick Curry, (Routledge 2023)
- Enheduanna: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author, Sophus Helle, ed. (Yale University Press)
- Fantasy: A Short History, Adam Roberts (Bloomsbury Academic)
- The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology, Paul R. Rovang (Lexington)
- Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise, ed. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
Deutsche Ausgaben der Titel - so es denn welche gibt* - werden in den nächsten Tagen nachgetragen.
* - zumindest die Misewa Saga von David A. Robertson wird anscheinend alle Jahre wieder nominiert, und von der gibt es eine deutsche Ausgabe
