Dennis McFarland has won the $5,000 Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction for Nostalgia (Pantheon), which the judges described as chronicling "the journey of a nineteen-year-old Union soldier abandoned by his comrades in the Wilderness, who is struggling to regain his voice, his identity, and his place in a world utterly changed by what he has experienced on the battlefield."
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The 2014 World Fantasy Awards winners are:
Best novel: A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
Best novella: "Wakulla Springs" by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages (Tor.com, 10/13)
Best short fiction: "The Prayer of Ninety Cats" by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean, spring 2013)
Best anthology: Dangerous Women by Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin (Tor Books)
Best collection: The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
Best artist: Charles Vess
Special Award--Professional (tie):
Irene Gallo, art direction of Tor.com
William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press
Special Award--Non-Professional: Kate Baker, Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace for Clarkesworld
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Finalists have been named for the £10,000 ($15,640) Guardian First Book Award, including "two collections of short stories, a novel and an investigation into modern China." This year's shortlisted titles are:
Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos
Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
Things to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan
Young Skins by Colin Barrett
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Three books have been shortlisted for the Great War Dundee Children's Book Prize, which commemorates Dundee's centenary involvement in World War I. The winner, who will be announced in March, receives £2,500 ($3,917) and his or her novel will be published by Cargo Publishing. The shortlisted titles are:
The God of All Small Boys by Joseph Lamb
Shell Hole by Lindsay Littleson
The Wreck of the Argyll by John K. Fulton