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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel
Incarnate
Ramsey Campbell
British SF Association – Novel
Mythago Wood
Robert Holdstock
Costa Book Award – Novel
Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama
Criminals in Love
George F. Walker
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
Ramsay Cook
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
Waiting for Saskatchewan
Fred Wah
Hugo Awards – Novel
Neuromancer
William Gibson
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed, A Critical Biography
David Nokes
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
Winter Garden
Robert Edric
John W. Campbell – Novel
The Years of the City
Frederik Pohl
Locus – Fantasy Novel
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Robert A. Heinlein
Locus – SF Novel
The Integral Trees
Larry Niven
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography
Solzhenitsyn: A Biography
Michael Scammell
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Robert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn
Evan S. Connell
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
Cross Ties: Selected Poems
X.J. Kennedy
National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Henry James: A Life
Leon Edel
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
Habitations of the Word
William Gass
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
J. Anthony Lukas
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The Triumph of Achilles
Louise Glück
Nebula – Novel
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Philip K. Dick – Novel
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
Kenneth Silverman
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
Foreign Affairs
Alison Lurie
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
Studs Terkel
Pulitzer Prize – History
Prophets of Regulation
Thomas K. McCraw
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
Yin
Carolyn Kizer
World Fantasy Awards – Novel
Bridge of Birds
Barry Hughart
Beehive – Fiction
Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner, illustrated by Marcia Sewall
Bluebonnet – Children’s
Skinnybones
Barbara Park
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry
The Moves Make The Man
Bruce Brooks
Boston Globe – Nonfiction
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
Rhoda Blumberg
Boston Globe – Picture Book
Mama Don’t Allow
Thacher Hurd
Buckeye – Grades 3-5
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Beverly Cleary
Buckeye – Grades 6-8
Light in the Attic, A
Shel Silverstein
Buckeye – Grades K-2
Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight, The
Stan Berenstain
Caldecott – Picture Book
Saint George and the Dragon
Margaret Hodges
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
Storm
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult
Tiger Eyes
Judy Blume
Coretta Scott King – Author
Motown and Didi
Walter Dean Myers
Costa – Book of the Year
Elegies
Douglas Dunn
Costa – Children’s
The Nature of the Beast
Janni Howker
Costa – First Novel
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
Strike Three, You’re Dead
Richard Rosen and R.D. Rosen
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile
Night Cry
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
Briarpatch
Ross Thomas
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original
Grandmaster
Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator
Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady
Juan Wijngaard
Hemingway – PEN
Dreams of Sleep
Josephine Humphreys
L.A. Times – Fiction
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
Newbery Medal – Children’s
The Hero and the Crown
Robin McKinley
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction
The Barracks Thief
Tobias Wolff
Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction
The Fighting Ground
Avi
Shamus – First P.I. Novel
Hardcover
Wayne Warga
Shamus – P.I. Novel
