All 1975 Book Awards

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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Sword and the Stallion

Michael Moorcock

Costa Book Award – Novel

Docherty

William McIlvanney

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Great Victorian Collection

Brian Moore

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Hallowed Walls

Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

The Island Means Minago

Milton Acorn

Hugo Awards – Novel

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Cockburn’s Millennium

Karl Miller

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Great Victorian Collection

Brian Moore

John W. Campbell – Novel

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Philip K. Dick

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

Edith Wharton: A Biography

R.W.B. Lewis

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror

John Ashbery

Nebula – Novel

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert Caro

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

Pulitzer Prize – History

Jefferson and His Time

Dumas Malone

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Turtle Island

Gary Snyder

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Patricia A. McKillip

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Transport 7-41-R

Terry Degens

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Anno’s Alphabet

Mitsumasa Anno

Caldecott – Picture Book

Arrow to the Sun

Gerald McDermott

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Machine Gunners

Robert Westall

Coretta Scott King – Author

The Legend of Africania

Dorothy Robinson

Costa – First Novel

The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke

Ruth Spalding

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Fletch

Gregory McDonald

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Dangling Witness

Jay Bennett

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Peter’s Pence

Jon Cleary

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

The Corpse That Walked

Roy Winsor

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Horses in Battle

Victor Ambrus

Newbery Medal – Children’s

M.C. Higgins, the Great

Virginia Hamilton