All 1980 Book Awards

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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

Death’s Master

Tanith Lee

British SF Association – Novel

The Unlimited Dream Company

J. G. Ballard

Costa Book Award – Novel

How Far Can You Go?

David Lodge

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Burning Water

George Bowering

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration

Jeffrey Simpson

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

McAlmon’s Chinese Opera

Stephen Scobie

Hugo Awards – Novel

The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart

Robert Bernard Martin

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee

John W. Campbell – Novel

On Wings of Song

Thomas M. Disch

Locus – Fantasy Novel

Harpist in the Wind

Patricia A. McKillip

Locus – SF Novel

Titan

John Varley

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Without Fear Or Favor: The New York Times and Our Times

Harrison Evans Salisbury

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

The Second Coming: A Novel

Walker Percy

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

Walter Lippmann and the American Century

Ronald Steel

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News

Robert Kelly

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Part of Nature: Modern American Poets

Helen Vendler

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

Walter Lippman and the American Century

Ronald Steel

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Sunrise

Frederick Seidel

Nebula – Novel

The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Executioner’s Song

Norman Mailer

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter

Pulitzer Prize – History

Been in the Storm So Long

Leon F. Litwack

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems

Donald Justice

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Watchtower

Elizabeth A. Lynn

Beehive – Fiction

Ramona and Her Father (Ramona Quimby, book 4)

Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Tracy Dockray

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Conrad’s War

Andrew Davies

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Building: The Fight Against Gravity

Mario Salvadori

Boston Globe – Picture Book

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

Chris Van Allsburg

Caldecott – Picture Book

Ox-Cart Man

Donald Hall

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

City of Gold

Peter Dickinson

Coretta Scott King – Author

Young Landlords

Walter Dean Myers

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Cornrows

Carole Byard

Costa – Book of the Year

How Far Can You Go

David Lodge

Costa – Children’s

John Diamond

Leon Garfield

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Lasko Tangent

Richard North Patterson

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore

Joan Lowery Nixon

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Rheingold Route

Arthur Maling

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

The Hog Murders

William L. Deandrea

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Mr Magnolia

Quentin Blake

Hemingway – PEN

Mom Kills Kids & Self

Alan Saperstein

L.A. Times – Fiction

The Second Coming

Walker Percy

Newbery Medal – Children’s

A Gathering of Days

Joan W. Blos

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

How German Is It?

Walter Abish