Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel
Floating Dragon
Peter Straub
British SF Association – Novel
Tik-Tok
John Sladek
Costa Book Award – Novel
Kruger’s Alp
Christopher Hope
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama
White Biting Dog
Judith Thompson
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Engineer of Human Souls
Josef Skvorecky
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier
Sandra Gwyn
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Celestial Navigation
Paulette Jiles
Hugo Awards – Novel
Startide Rising
David Brin
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Life
Lyndall Gordon
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard
John W. Campbell – Novel
The Citadel of the Autarch
Gene Wolfe
Locus – Fantasy Novel
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Locus – SF Novel
Startide Rising
David Brin
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka
Ernst Pawel
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Jane Jacobs
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Robert Darnton
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
The Maximus Poems
Charles Olson
National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59
Joseph Frank
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
Robert Hass
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
Weapons and Hope
Freeman Dyson
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The Dead and the Living
Sharon Olds
Nebula – Novel
Startide Rising
David Brin
Philip K. Dick – Novel
The Anubis Gates
Tim Powers
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915
Louis R. Harlan
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
Ironweed
William Kennedy
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Paul Starr
Pulitzer Prize – History
No award given
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
American Primitive
Mary Oliver
World Fantasy Awards – Novel
The Dragon Waiting
John M. Ford
Beehive – Fiction
Lost in the Devil’s Desert
Gloria Skurzynski
Bluebonnet – Children’s
Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade
Barthe DeClements
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry
A Little Fear
Patricia Wrightson
Boston Globe – Nonfiction
The Double Life of Pocahontas
Jean Fritz
Boston Globe – Picture Book
Jonah and the Great Fish
Warwick Hutton
Buckeye – Grades 3-5
Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade
Barthe DeClements
Buckeye – Grades K-2
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Storybook
William Kotzwinkle
Caldecott – Picture Book
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
Alice Provensen
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
The Changeover
Margaret Mahy
Coretta Scott King – Author
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye
Lucille Clifton
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator
My Mama Needs Me
Pat Cummings
Costa – Children’s
The Queen of the Pharisees’ Children
Barbara Willard
Costa – First Novel
A Parish of Rich Women
James Buchan
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
The Bay Psalm Book Murder
Will Harriss
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile
The Callender Papers
Cynthia Voigt
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
LaBrava
Elmore Leonard
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original
Mrs. White
Margaret Tracy
Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6
Superfudge
Judy Blume
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator
Hiawatha’s Childhood
Errol Le Cain
Hemingway – PEN
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
Joan Chase
L.A. Times – Fiction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Newbery Medal – Children’s
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction
Sent for You Yesterday
John Edgar Wideman
Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction
Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare
Shamus – First P.I. Novel
Creative Kind of Killer
Jack Early
Shamus – P.I. Novel
