{"id":56402,"date":"2012-05-25T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T00:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=56402"},"modified":"2012-05-25T19:52:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T00:52:24","slug":"mythopoeic-award-finalists-good-reading-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/05\/25\/56402-mythopoeic-award-finalists-good-reading-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythopoeic award finalists (good reading) announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note:<\/strong> This comes from our newest contributor Momosanla<\/em><\/strong>. Look for more great stuff from her soon.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a good book to read on your summer holidays \u2013 fire up those digital readers because you\u2019re in luck. The finalists for the 2012 Mythopoeic Awards were announced on Tuesday, May 22. Past award winners have included the Harry Potter series, Orson Scott Card for \u201cSeventh Son\u201d and Neil Gaiman for \u201cAnansi Boys”. With a track record like that, you\u2019re sure to find a quality read amongst the nominees.<\/p>\n

The Mythopeoic Society, founded by Glen GoodKnight in October of 1967, is a group dedicated to the discussion of and the study of the literary genre of mythopoeia: authors who create an entirely \u201cnew and transformative\u201d mythology or \u201cincorporate and transform existing mythological material.\u201d Specifically the society focuses on the works of Inklings members J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. Each year, since 1971, they have honored outstanding examples in both adult and children\u2019s fiction and non-fiction studies.<\/p>\n

There is some stiff competition in the two fiction categories. Last year\u2019s adult winner Jo Walton is back again to defend her title with her book \u201cAmong Others\u201d. But hot on her heels are Erin Morgenstern, a first time novelist with the stunning debut \u201cThe Night Circus\u201d and double nominee Catherynne M. Valente for \u201cDeathless\u201d. In the Children\u2019s literature category Lisa Mantchev may take the award with her popular \u201cTh\u00e9\u00e2tre Illuminata\u201d series. However don\u2019t discount Valente and her book the decidedly non-Twitter friendly titled \u201cThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making\u201d, which debuted at number 8 on the New York Times bestseller list. If you\u2019re anxious to judge for yourself, all of the nominated books with the exception of Richard Parks small press book \u201cThe Heavenly Fox\u201d, are available for download at Amazon.com.<\/p>\n

The Scholarship Awards for Inkling (books written about Tolkien, Lewis and\/or Williams) and Myth and Fantasy Studies (books written about specific authors in the Inklings tradition or more general works in the myth and fantasy genre) may be a little more difficult for us lay-folk to judge. Past winners Hammond and Scull are once again nominated for \u201cThe Art of the Hobbit\u201d and world-famous writer Ursula Le Guin has a collection of essays called \u201cCheek by Jowl\u201d on the list. Not to give it an unfair advantage but Jack Zipes\u2019s \u201cThe Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films\u201d is available for free at Amazon. That could turn into an \u201cit\u2019s the one nominated foreign film I saw last year so it should win\u201d situation. Similarly several others of the non-fiction works are also available for regular download.<\/p>\n

The full list of this year\u2019s nominees as well as past winners is available on the Society web site:
\nhttp:\/\/www.mythsoc.org\/awards\/<\/a> . This year\u2019s winners will be announced at the Mythcon XLIII, to be held from August 3-6, in Berkeley, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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