Awards and Nominations for Brandon Sanderson!

6/1/2015

WORDS OF RADIANCEWe are thrilled to share that Brandon Sanderson has won the 2015 Audie Award for Best Fantasy for his second Stormlight Archive novel, WORDS OF RADIANCE! The audiobook was read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading

WORDS OF RADIANCE (read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading) has also been nominated for The David Gemmell Legend Award! In addition, Sam Green, the cover artist of the UK edition, has been nominated for The David Gemmell Ravenheart Award for the cover art for the UK edition.

Brandon was also recently nominated for the Geffen Award in Israel! This Award is presented by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy and Brandon has been nominated in the Best Translated Fantasy Novel. Two of the five nominees are Brandon’s titles – THE WAY OF KINGS and A MEMORY OF LIGHT, the final book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, which Brandon finished after Jordan’s death. Also in the running for the award are Neil Gaiman, Ransom Riggs, and Kelly Armstrong.

We hope to have more good news later in the year when award-winners are announced!