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Here are the 2009 winners of the World Fantasy Award, announced at the World Fantasy Convention this weekend.

• 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)

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