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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel
The Sword of the Lictor
Gene Wolfe
British SF Association – Novel
Helliconia Spring
Brian W. Aldiss
Costa Book Award – Novel
Fools of Fortune
William Trevor
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama
Quiet in the Land
Anne Chislett
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Shakespeare’s Dog
Leon Rooke
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Byng of Vimy: General and Govenor General
Jeffery Williams
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Settlements
David Donnell
Hugo Awards – Novel
Foundation’s Edge
Isaac Asimov
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
Franz Liszt: Volume 1. The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
Alan Walker
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
Allegro Postillions
Jonathan Keates
John W. Campbell – Novel
Helliconia Spring
Brian W. Aldiss
Locus – Fantasy Novel
The Sword of the Lictor
Gene Wolfe
Locus – SF Novel
Foundation’s Edge
Isaac Asimov
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
Seymour Hersh
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Walker Percy
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction
Schindler’s Ark: (Schindler’s List)
Thomas Keneally
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History
The Wheels of Commerce: Volume 2 of Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century
Fernand Braudel
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem
James Merrill
National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Minor Characters
Joyce Johnson
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
John Updike
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Ironweed
William Kennedy
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
Seymour M. Hersh
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The Changing Light at Sandover
James Merrill
Nebula – Novel
No Enemy But Time
Michael Bishop
Philip K. Dick – Novel
Software
Rudy Rucker
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
Growing Up
Russell Baker
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Susan Sheehan
Pulitzer Prize – History
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790
Rhys L. Isaac
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
Selected Poems
Galway Kinnell
World Fantasy Awards – Novel
Nifft the Lean
Michael Shea
Beehive – Fiction
The Chocolate Touch
Patrick Skene Catling, illustrated by Margot Apple
Bluebonnet – Children’s
A Dog Called Kitty
Bill Wallace
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Virginia Hamilton
Boston Globe – Nonfiction
Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II
Daniel S. Davis
Boston Globe – Picture Book
A Chair for My Mother
Vera B. Williams
Buckeye – Grades 3-5
Tiger Eyes
Judy Blume
Buckeye – Grades K-2
Grandpa’s Ghost Stories
James Flora
Caldecott – Picture Book
Shadow
Blaise Cendrars
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
Handles
Jan Mark
Coretta Scott King – Author
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Virginia Hamilton
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator
Black Child
Peter Magubane
Costa – Children’s
The Witches
Roald Dahl
Costa – First Novel
Flying to Nowhere
John Fuller
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
The Butcher’s Boy
Thomas Perry
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile
The Murder of Hound Dog Bates
Robbie Branscum
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
Billingsgate Shoal
Rick Boyer
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original
Triangle
Teri White
Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Beverly Cleary
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator
Gorilla
Anthony Browne
Hemingway – PEN
Shiloh and Other Stories
Bobbie Ann Mason
L.A. Times – Fiction
Schindler’s Ark
Thomas Keneally
Newbery Medal – Children’s
Dicey’s Song
Cynthia Voigt
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction
Seaview
Toby Olson
Shamus – P.I. Novel
