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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel
The Ceremonies
T. E. D. Klein
British SF Association – Novel
Helliconia Winter
Brian W. Aldiss
Costa Book Award – Novel
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama
Doc
Sharon Pollock
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Progress of Love
Alice Munro
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Northrop Frye
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
Al Purdy
Hugo Awards – Novel
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
Helen Waddell: A Biography
Felicitas Corrigan
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
Persephone
Jenny Joseph
John W. Campbell – Novel
The Postman
David Brin
Locus – Fantasy Novel
Trumps of Doom
Roger Zelazny
Locus – SF Novel
The Postman
David Brin
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography
Alexander Pope: A Life
Maynard Mack
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
Joseph Lelyveld
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction
The Handmaid’s Tale: A Novel
Margaret Atwood
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within
Geoffrey Hosking
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
Derek Walcott
National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941
Arnold Rampersad
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
Less Than One: Selected Essays
Joseph Brodsky
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Kate Vaiden
Reynolds Price
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Wild Gratitude
Edward Hirsch
Nebula – Novel
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
Philip K. Dick – Novel
Dinner at Deviant’s Palace
Tim Powers
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
Louise Bogan: A Portrait
Elizabeth Frank
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
J. Anthony Lukas
Pulitzer Prize – History
…The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
Walter A. McDougall
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
The Flying Change
Henry S. Taylor
World Fantasy Awards – Novel
Song of Kali
Dan Simmons
Anthony – First Novel
When the Bough Breaks / Shrunken Heads
Jonathan Kellerman
Anthony – Novel
B Is for Burglar
Sue Grafton
Anthony – Paperback Original
Say No to Murder
Nancy Pickard
Anthony – Short Stories/Collection
Lucky Penny
Linda Barnes
Beehive – Fiction
Me and the Weirdos
Jane Sutton
Beehive – Informational
Great Painters
Piero Ventura
Bluebonnet – Children’s
The Dollhouse Murders
Betty Ren Wright
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry
In Summer Light
Zibby Oneal
Boston Globe – Nonfiction
Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History
Peggy Thomson
Boston Globe – Picture Book
The Paper Crane
Molly Bang
Caldecott – Picture Book
The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
Granny Was a Buffer Girl
Berlie Doherty
Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Coretta Scott King – Author
The People Could Fly
Virginia Hamilton
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator
The Patchwork Quilt
Jerry Pinkney
Costa – Book of the Year
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
Costa – Children’s
The Coal House
Andrew Taylor
Costa – First Novel
Continent
Jim Crace
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
When the Bough Breaks / Shrunken Heads
Jonathan Kellerman
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile
The Sandman’s Eyes
Patricia Windsor
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
The Suspect
Laurali R. Wright and L.R. Wright
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original
Pigs Get Fat
Warren Murphy
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator
Snow White in New York
Fiona French
Hemingway – PEN
Lady’s Time
Alan V. Hewat
L.A. Times – Fiction
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
Newbery Medal – Children’s
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction
Old Forest and Other Stories
Peter Taylor
Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan
Shamus – First P.I. Novel
Jersey Tomatoes
J.W. Rider
Shamus – P.I. Novel