World Fantasy Award Winners 2009

As Science Fiction Awards Watch reports, here is the list for World Fantasy Award Winners 2009:

Lifetime Achievement: Ellen Asher & Jane Yolen

Best Novel (tie): The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) & Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)

Best Novella: "If Angels Fight", Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)

Best Short Story: "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7/08)

Best Anthology: Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)

Best Collection: The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)

Best Artist: Shaun Tan

Special Award – Professional: Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)

Special Award – Non-Professional: Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)

The judges for 2009 were: Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson & Delia Sherman.