Sunburst Award 2009 Winners

The 2009 Sunburst Award winners have been announced:

Adult:

• The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson (Random House Canada)
• Night Child, Jes Battis (Ace)
• The Alchemist’s Code, Dave Duncan (Ace)
• Things Go Flying, Shari Lapeña (Brindle & Glass)
• Half a Crown, Jo Walton (Tor)

Young Adult:

• Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
• The Summoning, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
• Dingo, Charles de Lint (Viking)
• Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural, Eileen Kernaghan (Thistledown Press)
• Night Runner, Max Turner (HarperTrophy)

The Sunburst Award is presented annually to a Canadian writer who has published a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection during the previous calendar year. Winners each receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion with a sunburst logo designed by Marcel Gagné. The Sunburst is named after the novel by Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction. This year’s jurors were Barbara Berson, John Dupuis, Ed Greenwood, Sandra Kasturi, and Simon Rose.