All 1976 Book Awards

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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Hollow Lands

Michael Moorcock

Costa Book Award – Novel

The Children of Dynmouth

William Trevor

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Bear

Marian Engel

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

The Writing of Canadian History

Carl Berger

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Top Soil

Joe Rosenblatt

Hugo Awards – Novel

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

A New Life of Anton Chekhov

Ronald Hingley

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Doctor Copernicus

John Banville

John W. Campbell – Novel

no award

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

Bruno Bettelheim

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

October Light

John Gardner

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Maxine Hong Kingston

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Geography III

Elizabeth Bishop

Nebula – Novel

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Edith Wharton: A Biography

R. W. B. Lewis

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Humboldt’s Gift

Saul Bellow

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Why Survive? Being Old In America

Robert Neil Butler

Pulitzer Prize – History

Lamy of Santa Fe

Paul Horgan

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror

John Ashbery

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Bid Time Return

Richard Matheson

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Unleaving

Jill Paton Walsh

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China Trade

Alfred Tamarin and Shirley Glubok

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Thirteen

Remy Charlip and Jerry Joyner

Caldecott – Picture Book

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears

Verna Aardema

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Thunder and Lightnings

Jan Mark

Coretta Scott King – Author

Duey’s Tale

Pearl Bailey

Costa – Children’s

A Stitch in Time

Penelope Lively

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Alvarez Journal

Rex Burns

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Z for Zachariah

Robert C. O’Brien

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Hopscotch

Brian Garfield

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Autopsy

John R. Feegel

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

The Post Office Cat

Gail E. Haley

Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Grey King

Susan Cooper