Complete list of Mythopoeic Award Winners

The years listed are those the award was presented. No awards were made in unlisted years.

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 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

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for 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
  • 1996 Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
  • 1997 The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
  • 1998 The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
  • 1999 Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
  • 2000 Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
  • 2001 The Innamorati by Midori Snyder
  • 2002 The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • 2003 Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip
  • 2004 Sunshine by Robin McKinley
  • 2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • 2006 Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  • 2007 Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for 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
  • 1996 The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
  • 1997 (Combined with Adult Literature award)
  • 1998 Young Merlin trilogy (consisting of Passager, Hobby and Merlin) by Jane Yolen
  • 1999 Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
  • 2000 The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
  • 2001 Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun
  • 2002 The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
  • 2003 Summerland by Michael Chabon
  • 2004 The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle
  • 2005 A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
  • 2006 The Bartimaeus Trilogy consisting of The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, and Ptolemy's Gate, by Jonathan Stroud
  • 2007 Corbenic by Catherine Fisher
A complete list of finalists for the Mythopoeic Fantasy awards is also available.

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (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 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 Joe R. Christopher and Joan K. Ostling; Charles W.S. Williams, A Checklist by Lois Glenn
  • 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 by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
  • 1990 The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson
  • 1991 Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer
  • 1992 Word and Story in C.S. Lewis edited by 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 the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson
  • 1995 C.S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers
  • 1996 J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
  • 1997 The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams ed. by Charles A. Huttar and Peter Schakel
  • 1998 A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger
  • 1999 C.S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper
  • 2000 Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
  • 2001 J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
  • 2002 Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
  • 2003 Beowulf and the Critics by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D.C. Drout
  • 2004 Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
  • 2005 War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft
  • 2006 The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
  • 2007 The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (General Myth and Fantasy Studies)

  • 1992 The Victorian Fantasists edited by Kath Filmer
  • 1993 Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
  • 1994 Twentieth-Century Fantasists edited by Kath Filmer
  • 1995 Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World by James Roy King
  • 1996 From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner
  • 1997 When Toys Come Alive by Lois Rostrow Kuznets
  • 1998 The Encyclopedia of Fantasy edited by John Clute and John Grant
  • 1999 A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature by Donna R. White
  • 2000 Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness by Carole G. Silver
  • 2001 King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack
  • 2002 The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy
  • 2003 Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson
  • 2004 The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
  • 2005 Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Thomas Knight
  • 2006 National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England by Jennifer Schacker
  • 2007 Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.

A complete list of finalists for the Mythopoeic Scholarship awards is also available.


For more information about the Mythopoeic Society please contact:

Edith Crowe, Corresponding Secretary
The Mythopoeic Society
PO Box 6707
Altadena, CA 91003
E-mail:
correspondence@mythsoc.org