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British SF Association – Novel
The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
Costa Book Award – Novel
Young Shoulders
John Wain
Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama
Billy Bishop Goes To War, a play by John Gray with Eric Peterson
John Gray
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Man Descending
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town
Christopher Moore
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Vision Tree: Selected Poems
Phyllis Webb
Hugo Awards – Novel
Downbelow Station
C. J. Cherryh
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography
James Joyce
Richard Ellmann
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
John W. Campbell – Novel
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
Locus – Fantasy Novel
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
Locus – SF Novel
The Many-Colored Land
Julian May
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography
Waldo Emerson
Gay Wilson Allen
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest
The Fate of the Earth
Jonathan Schell
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction
A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
Jonathan D. Spence
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980
Allen Ginsberg
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-82
Gore Vidal
National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
George Mills
Stanley Elkin
National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Antarctic Traveler
Katha Pollitt
Nebula – Novel
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
Grant: A Biography
William S. McFeely
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
Rabbit is Rich
John Updike
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Pulitzer Prize – History
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
C. Vann Woodward
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath
World Fantasy Awards – Novel
Little, Big
John Crowley
Beehive – Fiction
Superfudge (Fudge, book 3)
Judy Blume
Bluebonnet – Children’s
Superfudge
Judy Blume
Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry
Playing Beatie Bow
Ruth Park
Boston Globe – Nonfiction
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944
Aranka Siegal
Boston Globe – Picture Book
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
Nancy Willard
Buckeye – Grades 3-5
Superfudge
Judy Blume
Buckeye – Grades K-2
Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree, The
Stan Berenstain
Caldecott – Picture Book
Jumanji
Chris Van Allsburg
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
The Haunting
Margaret Mahy
Coretta Scott King – Author
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Mildred D. Taylor
Coretta Scott King – Illustrator
Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal
John Steptoe
Costa – Children’s
The Song of Pentecost
W. J. Corbett
Costa – First Novel
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
Chiefs
Stuart Woods
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile
Taking Terri Mueller
Norma Fox Mazer
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
Peregrine
William Bayer
Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original
The Old Dick
L.A. Morse
Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator
Long Neck and Thunder Foot
Michael Foreman
Hemingway – PEN
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
L.A. Times – Fiction
A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone
Newbery Medal – Children’s
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn
Nancy Willard
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction
Seaview
Toby Olson
Shamus – P.I. Novel
