China Miéville wins World Fantasy Award

This years winners of the World Fantasy Award have just been announced and the winner of the best novel goes to China Miéville for his incredible novel "The City & The City". The novel has already won the 2010 Hugo Award (tied with Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl), the 2010 British Science Fiction Award, the 2010 Arthur C Clarke Award and this years John W Campbell Award.

The seminal authors Sir Terry Pratchett, Brian Lumley and Peter Straub all receive lifetime achievement awards.

List of Winners by Category:

Best Novel: The City & The City - China Miéville

Best Novelella: Sea-Hearts - Margo Lanagan

Best Short Story: The Pelican Bar - Karen Joy Fowler

Best Anthology: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps - Peter Straub

Best Collection: Tie: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby - Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Best Collection: Tie: The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe - Gene Wolfe

Best Artist: Charles Vess

Special Award: Professional: Jonathan Strahan for editing anthologies

Special Award: Non Professional: Susan Marie Groppi for Strange Horizons

Life Achievement Awards - Brian Lumley, Terry Pratchett, and Peter Straub.