You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles.
Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book has won the Best Novel award at the Hugo Awards for science fiction and fantasy.
Gaiman won the Newbery Medal, American literature's most prestigious prize for children's writers, for the book in January. The Graveyard Book is published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury.
Illustrated by Dave McKean, it tells of a child marked for death by an ancient league of assassins who escapes into an abandoned graveyard, where he is reared and protected by its spirit denizens.
Wired reports that Gaiman won a Best Novel Hugo in 2002 for American Gods. Best Novella winner Nancy Kress was also a repeat performer, adding a Hugo for her 2009 tale The Erdmann Nexus to her 1992 award for Beggars in Spain.