The World Fantasy Awards were presented at the 2006 World Fantasy
Convention, held in Austin, Tex., over the weekend. Judges were Steve
Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria Strauss, Jeff VanderMeer, and Andrew
Wheeler. The winners were:
- Life Achievement: John Crowley and Stephen Fabian
- Novel: Haruki Murakami, for Kafka on the Shore (Knopf)
- Novella: Joe Hill, for Voluntary Committal (Subterranean Press)
- Short Fiction: George Saunders, for "CommComm" (The New Yorker, Aug. 1, 2005
- Anthology: The Fair Folk edited by Marvin Kaye (Science Fiction Book Club)
- Collection: Bruce Holland Rogers, for The Keyhole Opera (Wheatland Press)
- Artist: James Jean
- Special Award, Professional: Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)
- Special Award, Non-Professional: David Howe and Stephen Walker (for Telos Books)