All 1990 Book Awards

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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

The Child Garden

Geoff Ryman

Bram Stoker – Novel

Carrion Comfort

Dan Simmons

British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

Carrion Comfort

Dan Simmons

Costa Book Award – Novel

Hopeful Monsters

Nicholas Mosley

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Lives of the Saints

Nino Ricci

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Trudeau and Our Times

Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

No Time

Margaret Avison

Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English)

Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence

Jane Brierley

Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

The Orphan Boy

Paul Morin

Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text

Redwork

Michael Bedard

Hugo Awards – Novel

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

Claire Tomalin

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

Brazzaville Beach: A Novel

William Boyd

John W. Campbell – Novel

The Child Garden

Geoff Ryman

Locus – Fantasy Novel

Prentice Alvin

Orson Scott Card

Locus – SF Novel

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt

Geoffrey C. Ward

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

O.B. Hardison, Jr.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

Lantern Slides: Stories

Edna O’Brien

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

The Quest For El Cid

Richard Fletcher

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

The Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose Poems

John Caddy

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine

Jane S. Smith

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert Caro

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present

Arthur Danto

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

Rabbit at Rest

John Updike

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America

Shelby Steele

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Bitter Angel

Amy Gerstler

Nebula – Novel

The Healer’s War

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Philip K. Dick – Novel

Subterranean Gallery

Richard Paul Russo

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Machiavelli in Hell

Sebastian de Grazia

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Oscar Hijuelos

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

And Their Children After Them

Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

Pulitzer Prize – History

In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines

Stanley Karnow

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The World Doesn’t End

Charles Simic

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

The Edge of the World

Michael Swanwick

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Lyonesse: Madouc

Jack Vance

Agatha – First Novel

The Body in the Belfry

Katherine Hall Page

Agatha – Novel

Bum Steer

Nancy Pickard

Anthony – First Novel

Katwalk

Karen Kijewski

Anthony – Novel

The Sirens Sang of Murder

Sarah Caudwell

Anthony – Paperback Original

Honeymoon With Murder

Carolyn Hart and Carolyn G. Hart

Beehive – Fiction

This Island Isn’t Big Enough for the Four of Us!

Gery Greer and Robert Ruddick

Beehive – Informational

How To Make Pop-Ups

Joan Irvine

Bluebonnet – Children’s

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom

Louis Sachar

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

The Great Little Madison

Jean Fritz

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Lon Po Po

Ed Young

Bram Stoker – Fiction Collection

Richard Matheson: Collected Stories

Richard Matheson

Bram Stoker – First Novel

Sunglasses After Dark

Nancy A. Collins

Bram Stoker – Nonfiction

Harlan Ellison’s Watching

Harlan Ellison

Caldecott – Picture Book

Lon Po Po

Ed Young

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Wolf

Gillian Cross

Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

The Cradle Will Fall

Mary Higgins Clark

Coretta Scott King – Author

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter

Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Nathaniel Talking

Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Costa – Book of the Year

Hopeful Monsters

Nicholas Mosley

Costa – Children’s

AK

Peter Dickinson

Costa – First Novel

The Buddha of Suburbia

Hanif Kureishi

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Last Billable Hour

Susan Wolfe

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Stonewords

Pam Conrad

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Black Cherry Blues

James Lee Burke

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

The Rain

Keith Peterson

Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Matilda

Roald Dahl

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

The Whales’ Song

Gary Blythe

Hemingway – PEN

The Ice At The Bottom Of The World

Mark Richard

L.A. Times – Fiction

Lantern Slides

Edna O’Brien

Macavity – First Mystery

Grime and Punishment

Jill Churchill

Macavity – Mystery Novel

A Little Class on Murder

Carolyn Hart and Carolyn G. Hart

Macavity – Nonfiction

The Bedside Companion to Crime

H. R. F. Keating

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Billy Bathgate

E.L. Doctorow

Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Shades of Gray

Carolyn Reeder

Shamus – First P.I. Novel

Devil in a Blue Dress

Walter Mosley

Shamus – P.I. Novel

G Is for Gumshoe

Sue Grafton