All 1979 Book Awards

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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Stephen R. DonaldsonThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

Stephen R. Donaldson

British SF Association – Novel

A Scanner Darkly Philip K. DickA Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

Costa Book Award – Novel

The Old Jest Jennifer JohnstonThe Old Jest Jennifer Johnston

The Old Jest

Jennifer Johnston

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne Jack HodginsThe Resurrection of Joseph Bourne Jack Hodgins

The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne

Jack Hodgins

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Emily Carr: A Biography Maria TippettEmily Carr: A Biography Maria Tippett

Emily Carr: A Biography

Maria Tippett

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do

Michael Ondaatje

Hugo Awards – Novel

Dreamsnake

Vonda N. McIntyre

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography

Brian Finney

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Darkness Visible

William Golding

John W. Campbell – Novel

Gloriana

Michael Moorcock

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

The Gnostic Gospels

Elaine Pagels

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

The Year of the French

Thomas Flanagan

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

Munich: The Price of Peace

Telford Taylor

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Ashes and 7 Years from Somewhere

Philip Levine

Nebula – Novel

Dreamsnake

Vonda N. McIntyre

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews

Leonard Baker

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

On Human Nature

Edward O. Wilson

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics

Don E. Fehrenbacher

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Now and Then

Robert Penn Warren

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Gloriana

Michael Moorcock

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Humbug Mountain

Sid Fleischman

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

David Kherdian

Boston Globe – Picture Book

The Snowman: Walking in the Air

Raymond Briggs

Caldecott – Picture Book

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

Paul Goble

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Tulku

Peter Dickinson

Coretta Scott King – Author

Escape to Freedom

Ossie Davis

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Something on My Mind

Tom Feelings

Costa – Children’s

Tulku

Peter Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Killed in the Ratings

William L. Deandrea

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Alone in Wolf Hollow

Dana Brookins

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Eye of the Needle

Ken Follett

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Deceit and Deadly Lies

Franklin Bandy

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Haunted House

Jan Pieńkowski

Hemingway – PEN

Hasen

Reuben Bercovitch

Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin