Question: Osama, written by what Israeli-born writer, won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel beating out a novel about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy written by Stephen King?

Context articles: Lois McMaster Bujold
Warren Commission
Lavie Tidhar
Bag of Bones
Among Others
Scott Baker (writer)
Misery (novel)
Jo Walton
11/22/63
The Chronicles of Tornor

Lois McMaster Bujold ( ; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer.
 She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record, not counting his Retro Hugo.
 Her novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.
 In the fantasy genre, "The Curse of Chalion" won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for "Paladin of Souls".
 In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award.
 In 2013 she was awarded the Forry Award.
 In 2017 she won a Hugo Award for Best Series, for the Vorkosigan Saga.
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through Executive Order on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963.
 The U.S. Congress passed Senate Joint Resolution 137 authorizing the Presidential appointed Commission to report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, mandating the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence.
 Its 888-page final report was presented to President Johnson on September 24, 1964 and made public three days later.
 It concluded that President Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and that Oswald acted entirely alone.
 It also concluded that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald two days later.
 The Commission's findings have proven controversial and have been both challenged and supported by later studies.
Lavie Tidhar (Hebrew: לביא תדהר‎ ‎ ) (born 16 November 1976) is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres.
 He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu.
 As of 2013, Tidhar lives in London.
 His novel "Osama" won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, beating Stephen King's "11/22/63" and George R. R. Martin's "A Dance with Dragons".
 His novel "A Man Lies Dreaming" won the £5000 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, for Best British Fiction, in 2015.
 He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2017, for "Central Station".
Bag of Bones is a 1998 novel by Stephen King.
 It focuses on an author who suffers severe writer's block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife.
 It won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1998, and the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1999.
 The book re-uses many basic plot elements of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca", which is directly referenced several times in the book's opening pages; however, the relation of these elements (including a wife who is dead as the book opens, her posthumous effect on future romance, a drowning, and house haunted by the memories of previous inhabitants) to the plot and characters is markedly different.
 When the paperback edition of "Bag of Bones" was published by Pocket Books on June 1, 1999 (ISBN  ), it included a new author's note at the end of the book, in which Stephen King describes his initial three-book deal with Scribner ("Bag of Bones", "", and a collection of short stories titled "One Headlight", which later became "Everything's Eventual"), and devotes most of the piece describing the origins of the then-forthcoming "Hearts in Atlantis".
Among Others is a 2011 fantasy novel written by Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton, published originally by Tor Books.
 It is published in the UK by Corsair (Constable & Robinson).
 It won the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the British Fantasy Award, and was a nominee for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
Scott Baker (born 1947 in Chicago) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer.
 (Though his middle initial is M., he should not be confused with the horror writer who publishes under the name Scott M. Baker.)
 Baker grew up in Wheaton, Illinois, once a stop on the Underground Railroad, but more recently a bastion of evangelical fundamentalism and political conservativism, resistance to which has been one of the dominant influences on his life and writing.
 After graduating from New College in Florida, co-owning a leather shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and then dropping out of the doctoral program at the UC Irvine, he spent a number of years as a hippy, camping near Tassajarra Zen Center in the Los Padres National Forest and passing much of the rest of his time in various bars.
 Forced to the realization that he was not having enough fun as a would-be hedonist to justify the lifestyle, he decided to become a full-time writer.
 On the way there he became what may be the only person to hold a Masters of Arts degree in Speculative Fiction (Goddard College).
 After 20 years in Paris, where he worked as a publisher's reader for several French publishers and, less artistically, as a financial translator for French brokerage houses, he now lives in Pacific Grove, California.
 His first novel, "Symbiote's Crown" ("l'Idiot-roi") received the French "Prix Apollo" award.
 This novel was science fiction.
 He won a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in 1985 for "Still Life with Scorpion", and has been nominated for the award three other times.
 Baker was co-author of the screenplay for the French film LITAN, which won the "Prix de la Critique" (Critic's Prize) at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival in 1982, and has worked on a number of other French films.
 He wrote some of the websites for WHO KILLED EVAN CHANG?
, the web tie-in for Steven Spielberg’s film, AI (Warner Brothers, 2001).
 He has been a judge for the World Fantasy Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.
 Now in semi-retirement, he devotes most of his time to playing tennis, at which he is tenacious but not particularly gifted.
Misery is a 1987 psychological horror thriller novel by Stephen King.
 The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1988, and was later made into a Hollywood film and an off-Broadway play of the same name.
 When King was writing "Misery" in 1985 he planned the book to be released under the pseudonym Richard Bachman but the identity of the pseudonym was discovered before the release of the book.
Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet.
 She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel "Tooth and Claw" in 2004.
 Her novel "Ha'penny" was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award.
 Her novel "Lifelode" won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award.
 Her novel "Among Others" won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and is one of only seven novels to have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.
11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the novel's titular date).
 It's the 60th book published by Stephen King, it is his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name.
 The novel was announced on King's official site on March 2, 2011.
 A short excerpt was released online on June 1, 2011, and another excerpt was published in the October 28, 2011, issue of "Entertainment Weekly".
 The novel was published on November 8, 2011 and quickly became a number-one bestseller.
 It stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 16 weeks.
 "11/22/63" won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
The Chronicles of Tornor is a fantasy series by American lesbian author Elizabeth A. Lynn.
 The first book in the series, "Watchtower" (1979), won a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel; its sequel, "The Dancers of Arun" (1979) was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the same year.
 It is one of the earliest fantasy series to feature positive gay protagonists whose relationships are an unremarkable part of the cultural background, as well as to present explicit and sympathetic depictions of same-sex love.
 The third title in the series is "Northern Girl" (1980).