- Short Name: World Fantasy Award Type Record # 44
- Full Name: World Fantasy Award
- Awarded For: Fantasy and horror
- Awarded By: Panel of judges chosen by the World Fantasy Awards Administration
- Poll: No
- Covers more than just SF: No
- Webpages: Science Fiction Awards Database, Wikipedia-EN, worldfantasy.org-1, worldfantasy.org-2
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Note: Sub-Genre Award (Fantasy). Annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy. Since 1975, when they were first awarded, they have been handed out at the World Fantasy Convention. All Fantasy is eligible: high fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, supernatural, children's and YA books, and beyond. Comics are eligible in the Special Award Professional category. 1975 awards were for works published in 1973-74.
Award Years
| 1970's: | - | - | - | - | - | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 |
| 1980's: | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
| 1990's: | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
| 2000's: | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| 2010's: | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| 2020's: | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | - | - | - | - | - |
Categories
| Display Order | Category | Wins | All awards and nominations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best Novel | 56 | 272 |
| 16 | Best Long Fiction | 3 | 15 |
| 16 | Best Novella | 42 | 210 |
| 22 | Best Short Fiction | 55 | 261 |
| 26 | Best Collection | 41 | 203 |
| 28 | Best Anthology | 40 | 190 |
| Best Anthology/Collection (old) | 13 | 72 | |
| Best Artist | 53 | 250 | |
| Life Achievement | 81 | 116 | |
| Special Award, Non-Professional | 54 | 249 | |
| Special Award, Professional | 53 | 259 | |
| Special Convention Award | 12 | 12 |