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February 10, 2007
Crawford Award
The winner of the 2007 Crawford Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts has been announced by IAFA Committee Director Gary K. Wolfe: Mary Rickert for Map of Dreams.
On behalf of the IAFA, the board would like to congratulate Mary Rickert, who will be in attendance at the International Conference of the Fantastic of the Arts March 14-18, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to accept the award.
The board would also like to extend congratulations to the other finalists:
Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer
Alan De Niro, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child
Theodora Goss, In The Forest of Forgetting
Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
Naomi Novik, Temeraire
The Crawford Award, presented annually by the IAFA since 1985 and originally funded by a gift from Andre Norton, recognizes the first book by an outstanding new fantasy writer. Past winners include Joe Hill, Alexander Irvine, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jonathan Lethem, Susan Palwick, Greer Gilman, and Charles de Lint.
Nominators for this year's award included Kelly Link, Graham Sleight, Niall Harrison, Jonathan Strahan, Farah Mendlesohn, and Gary K. Wolfe.
The award will be presented at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 14-18 in Fort Lauderdale.
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