World Fantasy Awards 1980
Winners and nominees of the 1980 World Fantasy Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Watchtower — Elizabeth A. Lynn(winner)
- ✦The Dark Bright Water — Patricia Wrightson (nominee)
- ✦Harpist in the Wind(nominee)
- ✦The Palace — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦The Last Call of Mourning — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦The Dead Zone — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Dancers of Arun — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Amazons! — Jessica Amanda Salmonson (winner)
- 🏆 Amazons! (winner)
- ✦The Year's Finest Fantasy — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Nightmares (nominee)
- ✦ Shadows 2 (nominee)
- ✦ Whispers II (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Finest Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦Nightmares — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Shadows 2 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦ Thieves' World (nominee)
- ✦Whispers II — Stuart David Schiff (nominee)
- ✦Thieves' World — Robert Asprin(nominee)
Best Short Fiction
- 🏆The Woman Who Loved the Moon — Elizabeth A. Lynn(winner)
- 🏆Mackintosh Willy — Ramsey Campbell(winner)
- ✦Saturday's Shadow — William F. Nolan (nominee)
- ✦The Button Molder — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦Petey — T. E. D. Klein(nominee)
Life Achievement
- 🏆Manly Wade Wellman(winner)
World Fantasy Convention Award
- 🏆Stephen King(winner)
World Fantasy Special Award: Professional
- ✦ Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
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