Winners of the 2009 World Fantasy Awards:
- Life Achievement: Ellen Asher and Jane Yolen
- Novel: The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) and Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Knopf)
- Novella: "If Angels Fight" by Richard Bowes (F&SF, Feb. 2008)
- Short Story: "26 Monkeys, also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's, July 2008)
- Anthology: Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia (Senses Five Press)
- Collection: The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
- Artist: Shaun Tan
- Special Award--Professional: Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)
- Special Award--Non-professional: Michael J. Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)
Marie NDiaye has won the Prix Goncourt for her Trois Femmes Puissantes (Three Powerful Women) and is the first woman in a decade and the first black woman to win the French literary prize, the New York Times reported. The novelist and playwright told Agence France-Presse that she did not see symbolism in her victory. "I have never thought of it in those terms: 'black woman' and 'Goncourt.' I find it impossible to see things that way." NDiaye grew up in France and did not travel to Africa until she was in her 20s.