Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel – Adult

Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel – Adult
Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel – Adult
Awarded for	Works over 40,000 words for an adult audience, written by up to 2 authors
Country	United States
Presented by	FIYAH Literary Magazine
First award	2020; 6 years ago
Most recent winner	Gautam Bhatia (The Sentence)
Website	ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com

The Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel — Adult is a literary award given annually as part of the Ignyte Awards.

Awarded forWorks over 40,000 words for an adult audience, written by up to 2 authors

CountryUnited States

Presented byFIYAH Literary Magazine

First award2020; 6 years ago

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Year	Author	Work	Ref.
2020	Silvia Moreno-Garcia*	Gods of Jade and Shadow	^[1]
	S. A. Chakraborty	The Kingdom of Copper	^[1]
	R. F. Kuang	The Dragon Republic	^[1]
	Fonda Lee	Jade War	^[1]
	Rebecca Roanhorse	Storm of Locusts	^[1]
2021	Rebecca Roanhorse*	Black Sun	^[2]
	N. K. Jemisin	The City We Became	^[2]
	Hao Jingfang (author)	Vagabonds	^[2]
	Ken Liu (translator)	Vagabonds	^[2]
	Stephen Graham Jones	The Only Good Indians	^[2]
	C. L. Polk	The Midnight Bargain	^[2]
2022	P. Djèlí Clark*	A Master of Djinn	^[3]
	Ryka Aoki	Light from Uncommon Stars	^[3]
	Zen Cho	Black Water Sister	^[3]
	C. L. Clark	The Unbroken	^[3]
	Rivers Solomon	Sorrowland	^[3]
2023	N.E. Davenport*	The Blood Trials	^[4]
	Simon Jimenez	The Spear Cuts Through Water	^[4]
	R. F. Kuang	Babel	^[4]
	Vaishnavi Patel	Kaikeyi	^[4]
	Nghi Vo	Siren Queen	^[4]
2024	Vajra Chandrasekera*	The Saint of Bright Doors	^[5]
	Moniquill Blackgoose	To Shape a Dragon's Breath	^[5]
	S. L. Huang	The Water Outlaws	^[5]
	Wole Talabi	Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon	^[5]
	Cadwell Turnbull	We Are the Crisis	^[5]
2025	Gautam Bhatia*	The Sentence	^[6]
	August Clarke	Metal from Heaven	^[6]
	Nalo Hopkinson	Blackheart Man	^[6]
	Justinian Huang	The Emperor and the Endless Palace	^[6]
	Tlotlo Tsamaase	Womb City	^[6]
2026	M.H. Ayinde	A Song of Legends Lost	^[7]
	Oyinkan Braithwaite	Cursed Daughters
	Linda H. Codega	Motheater
	Stephen Graham Jones	The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
	Tochi Onyebuchi	Harmattan Season

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