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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel
To Wake the Dead
Ramsey Campbell
British SF Association – Novel
Timescape
Gregory Benford
Costa Book Award – Novel
Silver’s City
Maurice Leitch
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama
Blood Relations
Sharon Pollock
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories
Mavis Gallant
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Caribou and the Barren-Lands
George Calef
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott
F.R. Scott
Hugo Awards – Novel
The Snow Queen
Joan D. Vinge
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
Victoria Glendinning
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
John W. Campbell – Novel
Timescape
Gregory Benford
Locus – Fantasy Novel
Lord Valentine’s Castle
Robert Silverberg
Locus – SF Novel
The Snow Queen
Joan D. Vinge
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life…Theodore Roosevelt
David McCullough
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jacobo Timerman, Toby Talbot
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction
The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier
Ray Allen Billington
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
Three Pieces
Ntozake Shange
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
A Virgil Thomson Reader
Virgil Thomson
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Rabbit is Rich
John Updike
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
A Coast of Trees
A.R. Ammons
Nebula – Novel
Timescape
Gregory Benford
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Carl E. Schorske
Pulitzer Prize – History
American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876
Lawrence A. Cremin
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
The Morning of the Poem
James Schuyler
World Fantasy Awards – Novel
The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
Beehive – Fiction
Eddie’s Menagerie
Carolyn Haywood, illustrated by Ingrid Fetz
Bluebonnet – Children’s
Ramona and Her Father
Beverly Cleary
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry
The Leaving
Lynn Hall
Boston Globe – Picture Book
Outside Over There
Maurice Sendak
Caldecott – Picture Book
Fables
Arnold Lobel
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
The Scarecrows
Robert Westall
Coretta Scott King – Author
This Life
Sidney Poitier
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum
Ashley Bryan
Costa – Children’s
The Hollow Land
Jane Gardam
Costa – First Novel
A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
The Watcher
Kay Nolte Smith
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile
The Seance
Joan Lowery Nixon
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
Whip Hand
Dick Francis
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original
Public Murders
Bill Granger
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator
The Highwayman
Charles Keeping
Hemingway – PEN
Household Words
Joan Silber
L.A. Times – Fiction
The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas
Newbery Medal – Children’s
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction
The Chaneysville Incident
David Bradley
Shamus – P.I. Novel
