All 1983 Book Awards

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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Sword of the Lictor

Gene Wolfe

British SF Association – Novel

Helliconia Spring

Brian W. Aldiss

Costa Book Award – Novel

Fools of Fortune

William Trevor

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Quiet in the Land

Anne Chislett

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Shakespeare’s Dog

Leon Rooke

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Byng of Vimy: General and Govenor General

Jeffery Williams

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Settlements

David Donnell

Hugo Awards – Novel

Foundation’s Edge

Isaac Asimov

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Franz Liszt: Volume 1. The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847

Alan Walker

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Allegro Postillions

Jonathan Keates

John W. Campbell – Novel

Helliconia Spring

Brian W. Aldiss

Locus – Fantasy Novel

The Sword of the Lictor

Gene Wolfe

Locus – SF Novel

Foundation’s Edge

Isaac Asimov

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House

Seymour Hersh

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Walker Percy

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

Schindler’s Ark: (Schindler’s List)

Thomas Keneally

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

The Wheels of Commerce: Volume 2 of Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century

Fernand Braudel

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem

James Merrill

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Minor Characters

Joyce Johnson

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism

John Updike

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

Ironweed

William Kennedy

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House

Seymour M. Hersh

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

The Changing Light at Sandover

James Merrill

Nebula – Novel

No Enemy But Time

Michael Bishop

Philip K. Dick – Novel

Software

Rudy Rucker

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Growing Up

Russell Baker

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Susan Sheehan

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790

Rhys L. Isaac

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems

Galway Kinnell

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Nifft the Lean

Michael Shea

Beehive – Fiction

The Chocolate Touch

Patrick Skene Catling, illustrated by Margot Apple

Bluebonnet – Children’s

A Dog Called Kitty

Bill Wallace

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Virginia Hamilton

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II

Daniel S. Davis

Boston Globe – Picture Book

A Chair for My Mother

Vera B. Williams

Buckeye – Grades 3-5

Tiger Eyes

Judy Blume

Buckeye – Grades K-2

Grandpa’s Ghost Stories

James Flora

Caldecott – Picture Book

Shadow

Blaise Cendrars

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Handles

Jan Mark

Coretta Scott King – Author

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Virginia Hamilton

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Black Child

Peter Magubane

Costa – Children’s

The Witches

Roald Dahl

Costa – First Novel

Flying to Nowhere

John Fuller

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Butcher’s Boy

Thomas Perry

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Murder of Hound Dog Bates

Robbie Branscum

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Billingsgate Shoal

Rick Boyer

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Triangle

Teri White

Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Beverly Cleary

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Gorilla

Anthony Browne

Hemingway – PEN

Shiloh and Other Stories

Bobbie Ann Mason

L.A. Times – Fiction

Schindler’s Ark

Thomas Keneally

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Dicey’s Song

Cynthia Voigt

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Seaview

Toby Olson

Shamus – P.I. Novel

True Detective

Max Allan Collins