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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel
The Hollow Lands
Michael Moorcock
Costa Book Award – Novel
The Children of Dynmouth
William Trevor
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Bear
Marian Engel
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Writing of Canadian History
Carl Berger
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Top Soil
Joe Rosenblatt
Hugo Awards – Novel
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
A New Life of Anton Chekhov
Ronald Hingley
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
Doctor Copernicus
John Banville
John W. Campbell – Novel
no award
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Bruno Bettelheim
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
October Light
John Gardner
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Geography III
Elizabeth Bishop
Nebula – Novel
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
Edith Wharton: A Biography
R. W. B. Lewis
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
Humboldt’s Gift
Saul Bellow
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
Why Survive? Being Old In America
Robert Neil Butler
Pulitzer Prize – History
Lamy of Santa Fe
Paul Horgan
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
John Ashbery
World Fantasy Awards – Novel
Bid Time Return
Richard Matheson
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry
Unleaving
Jill Paton Walsh
Boston Globe – Nonfiction
Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade
Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok
Boston Globe – Picture Book
Thirteen
Remy Charlip and Jerry Joyner
Caldecott – Picture Book
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Verna Aardema
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
Thunder and Lightnings
Jan Mark
Coretta Scott King – Author
Duey’s Tale
Pearl Bailey
Costa – Children’s
A Stitch in Time
Penelope Lively
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
The Alvarez Journal
Rex Burns
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile
Z for Zachariah
Robert C. O’Brien
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
Hopscotch
Brian Garfield
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original
Autopsy
John R. Feegel
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator
The Post Office Cat
Gail E. Haley
Newbery Medal – Children’s
