Brandon Sanderson Wins David Gemmell Legend Award for The Way of Kings

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Jun 20 2011 11:37am

Brandon Sanderson Wins David Gemmell Legend Award for The Way of Kings

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Congratulations to Brandon Sanderson for taking home the David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Novel for The Way of Kings, the first installment of Sanderson’s new Stormlight Archive series!

Designed to promote awareness of the fantasy genre, the David Gemmell awards seek to recognize outstanding work in the professional fields of fantasy. This year, the prestigious ceremony will took place on June 17th at the Magic Circle in London. A list of the nominees is here.

The Morningstar Award for Best Newcomer was nabbed by Darius Hinks for Warrior Priest, while the Ravenheart Award for Best Cover Artist went to Olof Erla Einarsdottir for the cover of Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Harper Collins Australia).

9 comments

1. sweetlilflower

view all by sweetlilflower | Monday June 20, 2011 12:11pm EDT

Yeah, Brandon! Such a telented and busy little bee deserves some accolades!

2. JennB

view all by JennB | Monday June 20, 2011 12:24pm EDT

Great book!

3. Samadai

view all by Samadai | Monday June 20, 2011 12:37pm EDT

A well deserved reward for a book that begins what will for sure be a great series. Congratulations to Brandon S.

4. Moshe

view all by Moshe | Monday June 20, 2011 01:00pm EDT

This well-deserved recognition is gratifying and I'm really delighted for Brandon. I hope it won't be taken as rudely immodest to say that I think that by selecting TWoK, the Legend Award has just raised its profile and gained in credibility.

This award makes up, at least a little, for the strange absence of a Hugo nomination for this remarkable, monumental book. Considering it's great popularity, it's puzzling that epic fantasy has such a hard time getting on the ballot (let alone winning).

5. Moshe

view all by Moshe | Monday June 20, 2011 01:11pm EDT

It's worth mentioning again here that as Irene reported a couple of weeks ago (see http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/2011-chesley-award-finalists), Michael Whelan's fabulous wraparound cover art for TWoK has been nominated for a Chesley Award.

Brandon and I already felt that we'd won a prize when we heard that Mike would be doing the cover.

6. HArai

view all by HArai | Monday June 20, 2011 01:44pm EDT

I just want to hear the story of how he gets the axe home :)

7. Neuralnet

view all by Neuralnet | Monday June 20, 2011 02:11pm EDT

he totally deserves it... that was a great book. he has been runner up so many times bet this one will be really sweet for him

8. Jon243

Tuesday June 21, 2011 01:45am EDT

@6 Agreed... Good luck getting that thing past TCA :p

9. dochogan

view all by dochogan | Wednesday June 29, 2011 05:39am EDT

Grats!