 Cover of first edition (hardcover) | |
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Doug Beekman |
| Language | English |
| Series | World of the Five Gods |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Eos (HarperCollins) |
Publication date | August 2001 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback), E-book |
| Pages | 442 (hardcover) 502 (mass–market paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-380-97901-2 |
| OCLC | 44979697 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3552.U397 C87 2001 |
| Followed by | Paladin of Souls |
The Curse of Chalion is a 2001 fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold. In 2002 it won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus Fantasy Awards in 2002.[1] The series that it began, World of the Five Gods, won the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018.[2]
Both The Curse of Chalion and its sequel Paladin of Souls (2003) are set in the fictional landlocked medieval kingdom of Chalion. The prequel The Hallowed Hunt (2005) takes place in the Weald to the south of Chalion and two to three hundred years earlier.
- ^ "2002 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ^ "2018 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-02.