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Mythopoeic Awards: 2009 Winners Announced
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the winners for the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards.
The winners of the fantasy awards are:
Adult Literature:
- Carol Berg: Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone (Roc)
Children's Literature:
- Kristin Cashore: Graceling (Harcourt Children’s Books)
Source: Mythopoeic Society
Jack Vance: The Genre Artist
- Written by Thialfi
An article about Jack Vance in New York Times.
Dan Simmons, the best-selling writer of horror and fantasy, described discovering Vance as “a revelation for me, like coming to Proust or Henry James. Suddenly you’re in the deep end of the pool. He gives you glimpses of entire worlds with just perfectly turned language. If he’d been born south of the border, he’d be up for a Nobel Prize.”
Finncon-Animecon 2009 DVD
- Written by Thialfi
Finncon-Animecon 2009 DVD is for sale. Trailer in Youtube. 
Urban Fantasy Book Cover Parade
- Written by Thialfi
Tähtifantasia Award 2009
- Written by Thialfi
The Tähtifantasia award for best translated fantasy in 2008 was given to Ellen Kushner for her novel Thomas Riiminiekka (Thomas the Rhymer), published in Finnish by Vaskikirjat. The award is given by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society.
The book was translated by Johanna Vainikainen-Uusitalo and published by Vaskikirjat. Vainikainen-Uusitalo was also the translator for Jeff VanderMeer’s City of Saints and Madmen, which won the Tähtifantasia in 2007. Ellen Kushner is the Guest of Honor of Finncon 2010 in Jyväskylä.
Sources: Partial Recall, Science Fiction Awards Watch, Ellen Kushner's journal.