{"id":40617,"date":"2024-11-15T12:13:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T17:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=40617"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:23:12","slug":"the-reformatory-named-best-novel-at-2024-world-fantasy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2024\/11\/15\/the-reformatory-named-best-novel-at-2024-world-fantasy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Reformatory&#8221; named Best Novel at 2024 World Fantasy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tananarive Due\u2019s latest hit \u201cThe Reformatory\u201d won the Best Novel award at the World Fantasy Awards. It beat out a number of other best-sellers for the prize including \u201cLooking Glass Sound\u201d by Catriona Ward and Alix E. Harrow\u2019s \u201cStarling House\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due, a Tallahassee-native, is no stranger to the literary award circuit. Last year her short story&nbsp; \u201cIncident at Bear Creek Lodge\u201d took home a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction category. 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Full of the horror and terror fans of Due&#8217;s writing have come to expect, the novel has been hailed as a modern masterpiece. In addition to earning acclaim at the World Fantasy Awards, the novel has also received the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Bram Stoker Award, and was a finalist for the Locus Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due also works as a Professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA, according to her official website.  Her writing talents have also been showcased on Shudder&#8217;s &#8220;Horror Noire&#8221; anthology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ismael David Mujahid, Executive Editor <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tananarive Due\u2019s latest hit \u201cThe Reformatory\u201d won the Best Novel award at the World Fantasy Awards. 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