The 2011 World Fantasy Award winners have been announced on the SFWA blog.
The winners are selected by a panel of judges that differs every year. This year’s judges were Andrew Hook, Sacha Mamczak, Mark Rich, Sean Wallace, and Kim Wilkins.
Life Achievement
Winner: Peter S. Beagle
Winner: Angélica Gorodischer
Novel
Winner: Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death (DAW)
Novella
Winner: Elizabeth Hand, “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon” (Stories: All-New Tales)
Short Story
Winner: Joyce Carol Oates, “Fossil—Figures” (Stories: All-New Tales)
Winner: Kate Bernheimer, ed., My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (Penguin)
Collection
Winner: Karen Joy Fowler, What I Didn’t See and Other Stories (Small Beer Press)
Artist
Winner: Kinuko Y. Craft
Special Award—Professional
Winner: Marc Gascoigne, for Angry Robot
Special Award—Non-professional
Winner: Alisa Krasnostein, for Twelfth Planet Press